bowman
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Post by bowman on Apr 10, 2008 15:25:11 GMT -5
The turkey season and contest is coming up, What do you carry with you?
Here is part of our calls and decoys we always have in the field with us. Just getting stuff together, and ready. I have added two of the Turkey Skinz this year. I will be curious how the birds react to them.
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Post by BT on Apr 11, 2008 17:24:53 GMT -5
I just have a slate and a couple of diaphragm calls.
I would be opposed to getting decoys but I haven't heard a great amount of reaction to them.
What I mean to say is that I haven't heard people saying that they wouldn't go into the field without them.
Maybe this is just an assumption on my part.
What say you?.
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SPIKER
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Post by SPIKER on Apr 11, 2008 17:59:54 GMT -5
Well. last year we scuttled the decoys after the Toms wouldn't come into the field....remember I ran out and grabbed them? Then , what was it, like a half hour later I got that Tom to come out in the open...  |
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Post by bow wench on Apr 11, 2008 18:44:28 GMT -5
We always use a hen or two. Forget about the jake or Tom decoys they don't work. But a hen can help you get the Tom where you need him to go so you can get a good shot.
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Post by SPIKER on Apr 11, 2008 19:23:54 GMT -5
I think you are right.....the Jake/Hen combo has always been a bust for me. This year it's going to be one hen, if that.... |
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Post by snoodslapper on Apr 11, 2008 22:03:32 GMT -5
It's usually me, my bow, my arrows in a back quiver, range finder (with compound, no rangefinder with longbow) and my ASAT. All this fits in the pockets on my quiver: 3 diaphrams, two slates (one crystal, one all weather), two strikers (one wood and one all weather) , a scratchbox call, multitool, homemade tether for carring my bird(s) out, tags, and pen. I haven't used dekes in several years. They seemed to frighten off more birds than they brought in or just made the tom's hang up because they were waiting for the dekes to advance on them. I find soft calling or just stop calling altogether when the bird gobbles in response works best for me. They come looking for the hen that way and then not to get hung up. At least that's what has worked on our easterns that I have taken.
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Post by SPIKER on Apr 11, 2008 22:07:40 GMT -5
I agree snood. It seems that their curiosity is peaked when they can't see what they are looking for. I've had bad luck with the decoys too, and good luck without them...I think that I'm leaving them in the garage this year... |
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Post by snoodslapper on Apr 11, 2008 22:11:33 GMT -5
Yeah, dekes CAN work, but it has to be just right conditions IMO. But when they work, that bird is absolutely captivated by them usually. I've actually had more luck with a preserved tail fain on a stick than I have with any store bought dekes in the past though. Pretty funny watching a hot tom strut circles around it trying to find the head. I suppose I'd be pretty captivated too, if I only got to have sex one month or so out of a year.  Wait...I bet if I added it up, that's what it figure up to.  |
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Post by royden on Apr 11, 2008 23:26:39 GMT -5
....... if I only got to have sex one month or so out of a year. Wait...I bet if I added it up, that's what it figure up to.  ;D Had a kid recently? |
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Post by snoodslapper on Apr 12, 2008 9:04:33 GMT -5
....... if I only got to have sex one month or so out of a year. Wait...I bet if I added it up, that's what it figure up to. ;D Had a kid recently? Not in 8.5 years. Finally figured out what was causing that and took care of it...  |
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Wait...I bet if I added it up, that's what it figure up to. 
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