How long?

[Spitten and drummen]

My question is say you have only heard one bird in a area gobbling and kill him. Do you think another gobbler will show up and take his place and if so how long. Do you believe that the hens he had will relocate where another tom is at or will they continue to use the area and another tom will move in. I have my opinions , just intereted in your thoughts and experieces.

[dirt road ninja]

a day or two and someone will slide in, if he wasn't already there. Once the boss bird is gone, gobbling will often pick up in that area.

[Spitten and drummen]

a day or two and someone will slide in, if he wasn't already there. Once the boss bird is gone gobbling will often pick up in that area.

This is my opinion as well. Now wanting to hear others views also. I killed a bird early last year out of a area and never heard another bird gobble there. Called up 3 jakes with hens there afterward. A bird never took his place that I know of and found that to be odd.

[bigbird]

I read an article about that from ray eye I wanna say. He was hunting a bird, a dominant one and he was the only one gobbling in that area. Once he got him killed after a while the rest of the gobblers started to gobble a little bit more than they did. You might have a big bird on your hands

[g8rvet]

I think a lot of it depends on turkey density and the size of the property you can cover (and they can too).  Old lease I hunted on was big and loaded with birds.  We would hear one or two early season and someone would kill one and new birds would start gobbling.

Small tract I hunt and I have only had one bird use the property for an entire year.  It is 300 acres divided by a creek and has a couple of fields in it.  If they are roosted along the creek, they tend to stay in the area until I kill them.  Other times there have been several using the 1/4 mile of creek.  Just depends on pressure around them too. 

I also hunt large tracts of public and it usually takes a few days of no gobbling and no butt whippings before the Juniors start talking. 

[roverboy]

I don't think it would be very long at all. A few days at most.

[LaLongbeard]

Depends on the turkey population. Whatever made the Gobbler killed pick the area, will attract another Gobbler eventually. In a high population area this could take only a day or so, some places I hunt in La literally have one Gobbler in a 3 mile area, kill him and it may be next season before a replacement comes in. I have killed a Gobbler on a Friday and heard 3 more that Sunday in a spot that I'd hunted everyday for a week, either they were not gobbling because of the dominant bird or moved in after they stopped hearing him?
I usually move to another spot if I've only heard one and killed him, check back maybe a week or so later if I find nothing else.

[Harty]

I agree with what was said previously about bird density. Good bird density helps recruitment when a few Dominant Toms are bumped off. Toms move around looking and even on a small parcel with one Tom I think another would show up in a few days especially if there are hens around and he sees opportunity

[1iagobblergetter]

Hens aren't going anywhere and fresh blood will slide in without missing hardly a beat...

[silvestris]

I think the hens will go find a replacement and bring him back, if possible.  Hens are addicted to sex, even more than the gobblers.

[saverx]

There is more than one gobbler there. My experience has been that if you kill him early in the season the others will gobble when they figure out he is gone. Could take a couple weeks. If you kill him late in the season, less likely to happen.

[Greg Massey]

If that's the area the hens want to nest , then i feel confident another gobbler will take his place , also the gobbler you killed may be the satellite bird .... most of the time the satellite bird is the one doing all the gobbling early ... but it all depends on the number of birds you have in the area... more is better , less is a pain in the butt ..... those less number of birds in a area can make a good turkey hunter almost cry .......

[tomstopper]

If that's the area the hens want to nest , then i feel confident another gobbler will take his place , also the gobbler you killed may be the satellite bird .... most of the time the satellite bird is the one doing all the gobbling early ... but it all depends on the number of birds you have in the area... more is better , less is a pain in the butt ..... those less number of birds in a area can make a good turkey hunter almost cry .......

I agree. If the hens are already comfortable with an area to nest, I think they will stay and another bird will fill his spot eventually. Of course this depends on population but I think the chances of the hens staying is greater than them all leaving to find another Tom

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