mathewsconquest2

I have a tag for the last season in Wisconsin- May 18th-May 22nd. I have never received a tag for this late in the season. Any advice to bag a gobbler this late in the season would be much appreciated.

I will be hunting in west Sheboygan County. I still am hearing gobbling in the morning. I know where they roost and where they sometimes walk after comming down in the morning.

1) Is there a better decoy set up for the late season?

2) How hard should I call, what type of call or should I call at all in the late season?

3) Any other advice would be great !!!

-Mathewsconquest2

Allseasonhunter7

id say try and pattern them with maybe just a hen...i woudlnt do much calling but what do ik ive only hunted them for 3 yrs

BSTNFREEK

single hen decoy, and that late in the season, a lot of hens will be nesting, so calling in a tom should be super easy!!! Toms will be covering a lot of ground to find hens, and will pop up on you quick, AND QUIETLY most of the time. Just call for 5 - 10 seconds, wait 5 - 10 minutes, repeat.....just like the shampoo bottle says. BRING MISQUITO REPELANT, after all, the WI state bird is the misquito, and we breed them big, matter of fact, we are thinking of opening them up right after turkey for hunting!

BSTNFREEK

good luck!

max the dog

This late season is a double edged sword. Not as many hens to compete with you but the birds now have an education in what a hunter sounds like. The trick to bagging an educated bird is to do what all the other hunters in your area aren't doing. Using a singe hen decoy is a good idea but if you have to use a drake put it in some low grass near her but no closer than 10 yards. Keep your calling to a mininum too, use just enough to let a gobbler know that you're there but not so much he can figure out that you're not a real hen. By this time they've had plenty of experience with hunters who've spent all day trying to get their money's worth out of their calls by using them over and over and over and over and over........... Be different.
I've never seen a hen cluck half as much as the average hunter with a new turkey call.

MKMGOBL

soft calling, don't get aggressive and try to set up as close to a roost as you can. Getting him off the roost first thing might be the best chance at this stage of the game. When I say that I don't mean shooting him off the limb! If you can get one roosted, set up in the path he tends to travel and stick to the NOT A LOT & SOFT calling. Good luck and I hope this might help you thump a late season gobbler