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Old 06-13-2003, 09:02 AM   #1
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Default Turkey sign ,,, What are they telling ya ?

One look I like is the one ya get when you work that bird into that 20 yd mark then all of a sudden he gives ya the Old One Eye
Ya can almost see what he his thinking O,O I' ve beeen had !

What kind of turkey signs do you seem to pick up on ??...BT
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Old 06-13-2003, 09:08 AM   #2
 
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I don' t know if you' re asking about visual only, but I have had several occasions where I have smelled a turkey before, or at the same time as, I saw/heard it. They smell like warm earth with pine, to me.
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I don' t know if you' re asking about visual only, but I have had several occasions where I have smelled a turkey before, or at the same time as, I saw/heard it. They smell like warm earth with pine, to me.
Snowdog! There have been times I thought I could smell that " bird like" smell too... I hope you' re not " setting me up [&:]" At the time I thought that maybe I just wanted a gobbler so badly that I was imagining it?? Maybe we don' t give ourselves enough credit--for the animal senses that we do have...I' m sure we' ve all smelled that " rutting buck" smell in the woods--why not a BIG OL' wet gobbler

Jeesh! Maybe there IS something to that " Turkey Scent" ....of course it matters only if the Tom smells it and is " lured in by it" .....personally, I don' t think so...but I' m still learning too!

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Old 06-13-2003, 01:09 PM   #4
 
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Well, I don' t think that turkeys have a very acute sense of smell, so I doubt they are attracted by/because of their sense of smell. But I can (sometimes, not often) smell them!! (I' m not a deer hunter, so I don' t know what a rutting buck smell is.)
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Old 06-13-2003, 01:11 PM   #5
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I also thought it was my imagination but I think I have smelled them on a couple of occasions.
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Old 06-13-2003, 01:37 PM   #6
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Boy , I couldn' t smell Crap if I was standing in it I could be a More better turkey hunter if I could only smell them silent ones ...BT
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Boy , I couldn' t smell Crap if I was standing in it.
Well, AJH, if that' s the truth, you may be blessed. Then again, maybe you should check your boots more often,[][] especially if you notice you' re getting disgusted looks.
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Old 06-13-2003, 02:38 PM   #8
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Geeezzzeee, looks like I' m not that crazy after all!! I have smelled their odor in the woods as well!! LOL!!
The only thing that happened alot this year was that they came in from behind me a lot, and I couldn' t move to see!!! Most times as I went to pick up my friction call I would hear a puttt from behind!!!
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I can smell em to. but only after I throw him over my shoulder to carry him out of the woods.
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Old 06-13-2003, 10:57 PM   #10
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i have smelled them too, not often though, wasn' t sure if i was losin it , but after my first gobbler , i knew they did
....i look for turkeys themselves, feathers, scratchin' ,poop,dusting,tracks, even just the toenails in the dirt/sand on a rainy day, those lil holes can still tell you approx. size and definately the direction the bird is going.....
i forgot strut marks[] ........
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