If you have a flock of birds with 2 toms and one gets shot, how long would you wait to hunt that same field/flock? One old farmer has a tag this week (ends Tues) I have a tag for the following season (starts Wed). I hope he gets one, but I would like to hunt this spot next week before work because I can get in and out quick and quiet.
Go right back after him!!!! Turkeys do not always remember everything they're supposed to... You never know, he might come walking right into your lap...
I have heard of ppl taking one one day and turn around and get another in the same exact spot the next day.
I'd go after them a couple hours after and feel good about it.
I have heard of guys hunting together, calling more than one gobbler in, one hunter kills one gobbler, they move and the other hunter kills the other bird. Like someone else said turkeys don't always remember what they are supposed to. Also depends on the mood of the birds. Good luck.
last season my buddy shot a nice gobbler out of a flock that had 3 longbeards on a friday morning just 50yds from the roost tree at first light.. I got there that night and he said the plan for the next more was to go right back in and hunt for one of the other 2 birds.
I looked at him like he was bat crazy, those birds aren't gonna be roosted anywhere near the same place again after you lit one up 5min off the limb right infront of the other two.
He told me to trust him, he said he watch a yote chase those birds 3 times that week out in the same fields, but they still return to that fields the every day to feed.
Those 2 birds were roosted less then 15yds from the morning before and I had one down minutes after they were on the ground.
Not every turkey is going to be that set on their patterns but what it taught me was that turkeys are far less influanced an "educated" by our pressure than deer.
Go right back and kill him the next day.
Wednesday the 11th. A friend and I shot 4 times at a few birds, misjudged range and got greedy caused misses. That was at 10 am. Decide to go back and sit same spot. Get there at 3:45 pm. Get settled and call at 3:55 pm and bird was on the ground at 4:00pm. The bird came running to us and there were two behind him that we did not see until after the shot. Hunt the spot!
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There were three long gobblers in a patch of woods I was hunting. Hunted them for a month with no luck. They were all covered up with hens. About 2 weeks ago I went down there and two of the gobblers were roosted within calling distance of me. About 200 yards either way. Killed one on a Sunday morning and the other on a Monday afternoon. Went back that Thursday and called the last one up but he hung up too far to shoot. Same thing on Friday and Saturday. Sunday late morning went back and called to him like a gobbler like you do during the fall and rather than coming in strutting he came in running to about 15 yards. I think they are about gobbled out and are ready to get back together here in this part of Alabama. Call like a hen and he just stood around and strutted.
anything can happen,
if it was legal i would start hunting the second bird as soon as the first bird stopped flopping. the only thing i would do is change my caller.
Keep right on hunting. you never know what will happen when you start talking that sweet hen talk, his hormones might make him forget... :turkey2: