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Old 04-25-2008, 11:51 AM
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MN/Kyle
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Default RE: Turkey set-up opinion NEEDED

ORIGINAL: BROX

ORIGINAL: Rob/PA Bowyer

Assuming Brox is bowhunting and for Jeff,

one of two things have to happen and I know Jeff isn't going to like the later, one, you need to visually stimulate your gobbler to come into bow range or why else would he be close to your blind except for a well positioned ambush, or two, you need to call them in and still call when they are insight of the blind but not close enough for a shot. Now the later with no decoy is tough because a gobbler will know exactly where that call is coming from, he looks, he sees no hen, may or may not pay more attention to your blind however, he's not likely to come any closer to something he cannot see.

I'm not a big fan of decoys however for bowhunting, they are pretty much mandatory unless your ambushing them.
Yes i am bow hunting and i purred to him when he got close so he would look at the decoys! Ihave a total of two hens and a jake should i use all of them?
This would be a good senario. You could set up a hen, and a jake as a breeding pair with a lone hen, watching the action. I haven't tried it THIS way. Upon thinking about it, a turkey might try and call the lone nasty watching hen, his way. In the wild, the hens are supposed to go to the tom, not the other way around. If you can get your hands on another jake, I'd use a breeding pair, and make the other jake watch the action.
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