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Old 03-02-2009 | 05:51 PM
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Default RE: Dominant Bird

Like every other turkey hunting tactic, don't expect to connect every time you try this, but it does work. The first time I did it was three years ago on accident. I spooked a few off and got mad and squatted down for a second, then said to heck with it and kept on walking. I spooked about 12-18 birds off the roost and sat down on a ridge looking over to the top of another ridge. Hens started going crazy kee keeing and yelping so I started doing it right back and called up 3 or 4 hens at first, which of course is good and bad. Good because you're sounding just like one of their lost girls and where there's hens, your dominant gobbler should be near. But bad because the more eyes they have in the area, the less movement you can make. I sat there with those hens kee keeing and yelping for a good 5 or 10 minutes before they finally walked over the ridge behind me. Not too long after that I saw my big tom on the other ridge top coming straight down my way. After he went down into the hollow, I turned and got my gun up in the direction I saw him heading down the other ridge, trying to anticipate where he would come up. He turned when he was out of sight and came up the ridge 15 yards to my right. Here's where I learned a lesson.....the minute I saw his head and neck I tried to swing over and put the bead on him. All he had to do was take one step back to get his head outta my sight behind that ridge, and he did. If I would have waited for him to get completely up on the ridge before swinging over, he would have been in view longer and I could have gotten a shot off. I've done this four or five more times since then and gotten two very nice birds. Every time I've done it, I've had turkeys pass by very close to me. It's fun for sure!
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