Davyalabama
WKR
- Joined
- Feb 23, 2023
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- 442
A difficult year in Bama, four birds down, smallest a little over 6” bearded two-year old I shouldn’t have killed, but went almost a month without seeing something other than hens, bearded hens and Jake’s, so I shot his behind not realizing how small he was because of my worsening eyesight.
Back to calling: first bird, only a few purrs, and clucks-this over a 2.5 hour period; second bird, small bird, a little calling up in the day; third bird, scratching in leaves, soft yelping, gobbling to him three-four times; fourth bird, two, yes two soft purrs followed by a single cluck at the end. Sat down about 2:30, waited a bit for everything to settle down, he gobbled at something, I did my soft stuff, he waited a couple minutes and gobbled again closer, I killed him at 3:07, 12 1/4” beard, 1 1/4 spurs next to the last day of the season. First turkey was the first day of the season, the other three the last week and a have of the season.
All the other calling I did netted hens, bearded hens and little Jakes. Wonderful sounding clucks, yelps, cackling, hen fighting sequences, gobbles, wing flapping fly downs, netted zip!!!!!!!!!!! I used to be able to call turkeys to the gun with my great calling. It wasn’t to be this year. This was different year. I’m getting worse, not better.
Back to calling: first bird, only a few purrs, and clucks-this over a 2.5 hour period; second bird, small bird, a little calling up in the day; third bird, scratching in leaves, soft yelping, gobbling to him three-four times; fourth bird, two, yes two soft purrs followed by a single cluck at the end. Sat down about 2:30, waited a bit for everything to settle down, he gobbled at something, I did my soft stuff, he waited a couple minutes and gobbled again closer, I killed him at 3:07, 12 1/4” beard, 1 1/4 spurs next to the last day of the season. First turkey was the first day of the season, the other three the last week and a have of the season.
All the other calling I did netted hens, bearded hens and little Jakes. Wonderful sounding clucks, yelps, cackling, hen fighting sequences, gobbles, wing flapping fly downs, netted zip!!!!!!!!!!! I used to be able to call turkeys to the gun with my great calling. It wasn’t to be this year. This was different year. I’m getting worse, not better.
