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Started by OldSchool, April 03, 2016, 10:20:53 PM
Quote from: Farmboy27 on April 04, 2016, 04:33:02 PMQuote from: hobbes on April 04, 2016, 10:03:49 AMI've had them do it but it's purely luck on their part. They can be spooky as heck but still aren't capable of the thought process required to decide "hey, I'll just keep that tree between me and that hen just in case it proves to be a hunter". You're giving them way too much credit.Absolutely! Turkeys are wary and great at surviving. But as much as we brag them up, they are not really intelligent. They have no ability to reason or to know that we imitate them to kill them! If a turkey responds to your calls and comes toward you then he thinks you're a hen! Even when we call in a bird and miss him, he doesn't think "wow, that thing that sounded like a hen just tried to kill me". As far as peaking up over a rise, they do that to check for waiting predators because it's an area they couldn't see. They don't do it to see if the hen sounds they heard were real or if it was a hunter.
Quote from: hobbes on April 04, 2016, 10:03:49 AMI've had them do it but it's purely luck on their part. They can be spooky as heck but still aren't capable of the thought process required to decide "hey, I'll just keep that tree between me and that hen just in case it proves to be a hunter". You're giving them way too much credit.
Quote from: ilbucksndux on April 05, 2016, 05:43:36 PMHow do they just disappear and show up behind you ? Watch him come down a ridge, goes behind a bush at 30 yards, just waiting for him to stick his head out..........waiting,waiting,scratch the leaves a bit,still waiting.Then 5 minutes later he gobbles 50 yards behind you !HOW DID HE GET THERE
Quote from: hobbes on April 05, 2016, 08:37:31 PMScared of their own shadow.....yes.Conditioned to run like heck every time something twitches....maybe. Imtelligent....no.I'm not sure if you consider that calling them stupid or if I'm a "so called turkey hunter" but they aren't mythical.
Quote from: warrent423 on April 05, 2016, 07:33:08 PMQuote from: OldSchool on April 03, 2016, 10:20:53 PMOne of the things turkeys do that's impressed me the few times I've seen it, is to put a tree between himself and me and sneak in close, unseen. The first one that I know of to do it to me came over a hundred yards from where I'd seen him last. He was in open woods and just disappeared. I couldn't understand where he went and a few minutes later there he was. A slight movement caught my eye at about 25 yards and there's half of a turkey's head eying me from behind a cherry tree. A second later it disappeared and I never saw the bird as he left either. There were a couple other times too and they were all birds that had been hunted hard for a few years that pulled it on me. It makes me wonder how many other times over the years turkeys have done it to me without me ever knowing it. If I hadn't been looking almost at the spot where they peeked around the tree each time, I probably wouldn't have seen them.BobI've seen this a lot myself. I hunt nothing but public land and it's amazing how well educated they can get. I say this often, but I couldn't take a "so called" turkey hunter seriously who thought heavily pressured gobblers to be stupid.
Quote from: OldSchool on April 03, 2016, 10:20:53 PMOne of the things turkeys do that's impressed me the few times I've seen it, is to put a tree between himself and me and sneak in close, unseen. The first one that I know of to do it to me came over a hundred yards from where I'd seen him last. He was in open woods and just disappeared. I couldn't understand where he went and a few minutes later there he was. A slight movement caught my eye at about 25 yards and there's half of a turkey's head eying me from behind a cherry tree. A second later it disappeared and I never saw the bird as he left either. There were a couple other times too and they were all birds that had been hunted hard for a few years that pulled it on me. It makes me wonder how many other times over the years turkeys have done it to me without me ever knowing it. If I hadn't been looking almost at the spot where they peeked around the tree each time, I probably wouldn't have seen them.Bob