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not what i wanted to hear.

Started by hotspur, March 19, 2017, 07:09:32 PM

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hotspur

I haven't been able to do any pre season scouting this year. So after a fun but unsuccessful youth hunt with my son at knf. On my way back home I stopped at a river bottom wma to try and locate a gobbler just for fun, and kill some time. Have you heard the saying ( get the owls started and they will get the turkeys started) ? Moving along at 330 pm, using a levee for elevation I was sending out gobbles patiently and every once in a while an owl would answer. Some far some close, one owl even got what I would call  fired up,      scratching my head  on this one

wvmntnhick

Not hearing a bird in the evening isn't a horrible thing. I've tried roosting before and heard nothing. Go back the next morning with zero expectations and hear 6 sound off.

fallhnt

Sounds like a scouting mission is needed
When I turkey hunt I use a DSD decoy

Dr Juice

Quote from: wvmntnhick on March 19, 2017, 09:58:10 PM
Not hearing a bird in the evening isn't a horrible thing. I've tried roosting before and heard nothing. Go back the next morning with zero expectations and hear 6 sound off.
^^^This^^^

Cottonmouth

Quote from: wvmntnhick on March 19, 2017, 09:58:10 PM
Not hearing a bird in the evening isn't a horrible thing. I've tried roosting before and heard nothing. Go back the next morning with zero expectations and hear 6 sound off.
Same here. If I had to depend on roosting birds, I wouldn't kill many. Birds could be henned up.

Rzrbac

That wouldn't discourage me at all as long as I knew the area held turkeys.  If you don't know the piece of land, roosting a bird without gobbles can be tough.