has this happened to you?
#1
has this happened to you?
have you seen toms and hens in the same flock eating in a field? or is that just not possible?
or
used a owl call which made a real owl hoot causing a tom to gobble in the fall.
all i am trying to say is can toms and hens be in the same flock in the fall. i'm talking late fall. and can a owl hoot cause a tom to gobble in the fall like at a little before or after sunrise?
i had someone in the chat "Ridge Runner" say all this was not "real life"
thanks guys
or
used a owl call which made a real owl hoot causing a tom to gobble in the fall.
all i am trying to say is can toms and hens be in the same flock in the fall. i'm talking late fall. and can a owl hoot cause a tom to gobble in the fall like at a little before or after sunrise?
i had someone in the chat "Ridge Runner" say all this was not "real life"
thanks guys
#4
I have seen the toms and hens mixed in the fall but usually they are in batchelor groups by now. Just yesterday I saw a group of 7 long beards all together and later a mess of hens and growing spring birds in a different spot. I have heard toms gobble in the fall but never tried the owl hooter at that time of the year because I don't hunt turkey in the fall just spring.
#5
I have seen the toms and hens mixed in the fall but usually they are in batchelor groups by now. Just yesterday I saw a group of 7 long beards all together and later a mess of hens and growing spring birds in a different spot. I have heard toms gobble in the fall but never tried the owl hooter at that time of the year because I don't hunt turkey in the fall just spring.
Best of luck to you in the spring!
Mack
#6
A few years back I was duck hunting around some islands on the Arkansas river. As daylight broke you could make out hundreds of turkeys roosting in the trees on the island. When they flew down all the hens went one way and the gobblers went another way. When ever someone would shoot at ducks the turkeys would shock gobble.
#7
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have you seen toms and hens in the same flock eating in a field? or is that just not possible?
or
used a owl call which made a real owl hoot causing a tom to gobble in the fall.
all i am trying to say is can toms and hens be in the same flock in the fall. i'm talking late fall. and can a owl hoot cause a tom to gobble in the fall like at a little before or after sunrise?
i had someone in the chat "Ridge Runner" say all this was not "real life"
thanks guys
or
used a owl call which made a real owl hoot causing a tom to gobble in the fall.
all i am trying to say is can toms and hens be in the same flock in the fall. i'm talking late fall. and can a owl hoot cause a tom to gobble in the fall like at a little before or after sunrise?
i had someone in the chat "Ridge Runner" say all this was not "real life"
thanks guys
In the late fall the winter groups of family flocks and gobbler flocks can mingle in ther same feild feeding. Remember gobbler flocks are very small to the hen and poult flocks so there would not be a large number of gobblers in the feild. so the answer is yes they will eat together in the same field...
As for the owl calling shock gobbling a gobber in the fall, I would have to say on a very rare occation a gobber may gobbe back to an owl call but the chances are very small so I would have to say that it is seldom unheard of....
#8
Yeah Pretty much these guys covered it. I have definitely seen toms with hens in the fall. Usually when there are all feeding in the same field though. And yes, I have heard gobbles several times in the fall. I have heard them shock gobble at owls too. It doesn't happen everyday, but is very possible. Turkeys are still turkeys and gobblers are still gobblers in the fall.