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Success % on birds that answer your call?

Started by greencop01, April 10, 2020, 08:53:11 AM

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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.
If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer!
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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. 
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The good Lord ain't made a gobbler I can't kill.  I just gotta be there at the right time.....  on the day he wants to die.

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

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GobbleNut

Quote from: guesswho on April 10, 2020, 06:41:05 PM
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

Quote from: Happy on April 10, 2020, 07:08:49 PM
Enough to feel like I know a little bit about what I am doing. Not enough to feel like a master.



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tomstopper

Quote from: Spitten and drummen on April 10, 2020, 07:12:15 PM
Quote from: Happy on April 10, 2020, 07:08:49 PM
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% :z-dizzy:
Deer see you and think you are a stump. The Old Gobbler sees a stump and thinks it is YOU!

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.
Love to hunt the King of Spring!

BrowningGuy88

Quote from: Greg Massey on April 10, 2020, 05:58:51 PM
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 :bike2:
" RANGERS LEAD THE WAY"
"QUEEN OF BATTLE FOLLOW ME " ~ INFANTRY
"DEATH FROM ABOVE " ~ AIRBORNE