Well I filled my second ( and last) tag this morning. It happened early and took 75 min from contact to kill. He responded to first yelp with a gobble. On the roost still about 250 yards away. He and another gobbler (even farther away) got in a calling match. When they would let me get a word in, gobbler one responded, two gobbles back at him and I am shut out of conversation.
Gobbler gets of rooste and enters field.
He had three hens with him, and two Jakes trailing.
Once again when I call Tom’s, I more often get hens coming in. (I don’t know how or why, I just do. I’m quite proud of it. I am calling Tom’s but hens flock to me. Others have listened to my calling and can’t hear anything tremendously different). They were 175 yards out moving away, and I coaxed two of the hens to turn. Gobbler didn’t like it, but he followed. He put on quite a show strutting and gobbling till he was close enough. 19 lb 6 oz with 9” plus beard.
After he was down, the two Jakes came in and beat up on him a bit. Payback I suspect. Second photo they approach.
Gobbler gets of rooste and enters field.
He had three hens with him, and two Jakes trailing.
Once again when I call Tom’s, I more often get hens coming in. (I don’t know how or why, I just do. I’m quite proud of it. I am calling Tom’s but hens flock to me. Others have listened to my calling and can’t hear anything tremendously different). They were 175 yards out moving away, and I coaxed two of the hens to turn. Gobbler didn’t like it, but he followed. He put on quite a show strutting and gobbling till he was close enough. 19 lb 6 oz with 9” plus beard.
After he was down, the two Jakes came in and beat up on him a bit. Payback I suspect. Second photo they approach.