RE: Roosting birds?
 

Superstrutter:

I have hunted turkeys for 37 years and in 6 states and I can't agree more. In my experience there is no sure thing when it comes to harvesting a gobbler.

I have had them fly in to me from the roost, come running in and the norm when they take their good ole time coming in from the roost.

Then there are those many times when they just go the other way for no apparent reason, hens can come walking into the roosted gobbler and they fly to the hens. I have had people shoot at them in the roost while I am waiting, I once had a dog run one off, and a dog chasing a deer and another time a coyote.

I had a perfect setup last year and put on my best series of calls only to have the gobbler fly 10 feet over my head and sail a 1/2 mile into the valley. WHY???

I have been fortunate to have harvested a lot of boss gobblers, but my success rate of harvesting roosted birds in no where in the range of 95%.

Good luck to all.......


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