Success % on birds that answer your call?

[ManfromGreenSwamp]

My results-Private property:

Large tracts of land- HIGH percent
Tiny parcels- very low percent

Public land-Heavily pressured:

Extremely low percent


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[guesswho]

100%, but once I wake up and actually make it to the woods the percentage drops a little bit.

[Yoder409]

It varies so widely from year to year and location to location..........

I've had years on my home turf that were 100%.   I had years in the same place that were 0%.

Wyoming public land Merriam's in 2018..........  about 5-10 %
Mexican Gould's in 2007........... 50%
Nebraska private land Merriam's in 2014........... 0%
Same place in 2018............  75%
Last year on the home ranch Eastern's............  80% (calling, also for my daughter and brother)

I could go on and on..........  The 0% years are few and far between.  But they're turkeys.  And turkeys are ignorant. 

[Happy]

Enough to feel like I know a little bit about what I am doing. Not enough to feel like a master.

[GobbleNut]

100%, but once I wake up and actually make it to the woods the percentage drops a little bit.

    You're only 100% when you're dreaming?  Heck, when I'm asleep I kill about 500% of 'em! I always use that in my "awake" average too,...and that brings me up to somewhere in the neighborhood of 13% overall. 

[Spitten and drummen]

Enough to feel like I know a little bit about what I am doing. Not enough to feel like a master.

This is the best post to this topic. Very true words of wisdom.

[MK M GOBL]

Can't fool me twice, I have some luck...


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[tomstopper]

Enough to feel like I know a little bit about what I am doing. Not enough to feel like a master.

This is the best post to this topic. Very true words of wisdom.

Totally agree

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[catman529]

Definitely less than 50%. Couldn't come up with an exact number, I don't pay that much attention. You got courtesy gobbles, skittish turkeys afraid to go anywhere, old wise turkeys that have hens but gobble anyway, etc etc.

When you do get a bird that's hot and ready, it's almost too easy. But it doesn't happen as often as we'd like to think, so it seems a lot tougher due to the effort put forth to find such a bird.


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[WildTigerTrout]

Answer me on the limb or shortly after daylight- 2 to 3 out of 10.
Answer me after 9am- 50/50

Above subject to change at any time.  0% to 100%

[Tail Feathers]

I don't know but it is probably fairly low.  Don't have much trouble getting to answer me but many of those don't work to a kill.

[BrowningGuy88]

I just want to hunt and kill gobblers , i didn't worry about percentages ...

This is me.

Some times I can't do anything wrong, other years I can't do anything right.

[camotoe]

High enough to keep me coming back for more abuse.


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[WV Flopper]

  I am lucky in more ways than one and have a lot of ground to hunt. Some of it is awesome ground. I would say after 10 if a turkeys gobblers and I can set up on him, we are going to dance. I will get more of those than walks away, by far. Off the roost? Lone gobbler? Two/three 2 year olds? Two three year olds with hens? Lots of variables... In the area I hunt, I believe a descent turkey hunter will kill a gobbler 33% of the time afield. I know guys that do better than that. You have to take what is giving and make it happen.

[Spitten and drummen]

For me this year it seems to be about 10 percent