The gobbler and the DSD, a love story

[alloutdoors]

Took these Saturday morning, I posted a few more from this set in the photography section but that subforum is pretty dead.

[Ishi]

Crazy good pics for posting

[knifeshark]

He looks a little disappointed in the last picture, L.O.L.! Very good pics.

[Mabren2]

Awesome pics! I love seeing the transformation in colors in the head and neck.

[alloutdoors]

He looks a little disappointed in the last picture, L.O.L.! Very good pics.

Haha, you have no idea. He spent over an hour and a half trying to figure out that decoy. I had to not-so-quietly pack away my camera gear to finally convince him to leave, even then he walked away very slowly and kept stopping to strut every few steps.

[cramerhunts]

Awesome pictures! Very cool, thanks for sharing them.

[eorlando]

Those are incredible.  Being a photographer as well I can really appreciate those.  That is one thing I don't have pictures of is strutting turkeys. I need to get put and get some one day.

[ncwoodsman]

Amazing photos! Thanks for sharing. Only God could make something this beautiful.

[silvestris]

He may be a fine gobbler, but aWild Turkey he ceased to be at the sight of the decoy.  That is the sad effect of sign stimulus.

[alloutdoors]

He may be a fine gobbler, but aWild Turkey he ceased to be at the sight of the decoy.  That is the sad effect of sign stimulus.

Go fight your crusade somewhere else, this wasn't even a hunt, just a photo shoot.

[renegade19]

Great pics!  Thanks for sharing.  Am I a bad or unethical turkey hunter because I don't even know what sign stimulus is?  What is going on here?

[albrubacker]

Awesome pics!!

[renegade19]

The component or characteristic of an external stimulus which initiates a particular innate behavioural response in an animal perceiving it, regardless of the presence or absence of the remainder of the stimulus.

"That's all I got to say about that."
- Forest Gump

[Rio Fan]

Awesome photos, thanks for sharing! 

I had a jake get on top of my DSD hen and after he finished his business he literally laid on the decoy with his wings draped over the sides, he wore himself out.  Funny stuff.

[Sand Man]

Amazing pictures!