Just won't come in
 

The birds just won't come in. They hang up and are with hens. I had one today that was 80 yards iut for over a hour. Is there anything I can do or try. I'm using a hen and jake decoy.

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try calling from your tree then run back 50 yards hit the call real hard and run back that has worked for my step dad before ,,,or try changing up your calls.

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what time of the day are you hunting?

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Get rid of the Jake decoy

If you get a hen to talk to you - forget about the Tom and make that hen mad. Use your call to mimic the hen talk note for note - yelp for yelp, and cluck for cluck. She clucks - you cluck and keep it up till she stops - then you stop - once she starts again hit her again a bit harder and stop each time she does. About the third time doing this she more than likely will come find you and hopefully the Tom will be right behind her!
Match her tone.

JW

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Try getting in as close as you can to the roost....or try later in the morning...that's what happened with me...hen left the gobbler around 10 and at 11:21am I was walking up to a dead gobbler....

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I have been hunting mornings and afternoon till dark. I do think that they may not have seen the decoys. I will setup a little differant and see what happens. Those old big boys are still following the hens. I seen hens all day long not sure why they aren't sitting. I also bow hunt so things aren't as easy and I hunt alone.

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I agree... loose the jake decoy like JW said and just try a single hen. A mature gobbler doesn't have much problem with a jake but often he has been pummeled by several at once which is not good. If that doesn't work go with no decoys the next day. You might be dealing with an educated bird like what turkeygirl2 has....Oh I mean had.
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I called in a hen that was with a "hung up gobbler" once. I had a single hen decoy and she seemed to respond most to soft purring.

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The way I see it, some birds have played the game far too many times and they refuse to come in.

Find where he roosts.. get in tight.. and soft call.. See what happens..

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Well last night I got 2 nice gobblers to come to a jake and hen set up. They where both very mad and where going to kick some butt on that jake. Now is the part that is really bad. I missed not once but twice on these gobblers. I hunt with a bow and I'm a very good shot and confident when shooting but I did miss both turkeys. Well I will give it one more time this afternoon. These shoots where missed at 7:00 last evening. I had them gobbling like crazy. One more thing when I got back to the truck I set up the block and drilled the bulleyes at 20 and 30 yards. I must have had buck fever.

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My hat is off to you. It is hard enough getting them with a shotgun but make it a bow and the game gets more difficult. Keep at it you will bag them.

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Well just got back and had 3 hens and a big old tom come in. The hens come over the the decoys but the tom stayed off at 60 yards and wouldn't come any closer. The hens started to respond back when I called then the tom sounded off. These hens where talking back to me then things got still. I was ready I thought they would come in and check things and they did but the tom wouldn't give me a chance. It was a great experience again and even not getting a bird the time in the field is the most rewarding to me anyway. And yes hunting with a bow is always more challenging. With a bow you have to do more moving when the shot presents it self.

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I have had a gobbler call work with a hung up bird. He hung up at 70 yards for an hour i took out the gobbler and he broke strut and ran the rest of the way or have someone call fifty yards behind you.

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Thanks for the info. I always hunt along but would be nice to have another person sometime. These birds are very educated birds and do get some calling durning the hunt season. I quess I had my chance it just was not suppose to be.