I heard turkeys gobbling in the fall. I know many of you have experienced this a lot, but where I live and hunt in upstate NY I have yet to hear gobbling in the fall. I have bow-hunted whitetails on this pareticular piece of land for the past 10 years and always sewe turkeys in the fall woods, but never have I heard them gobbler. Well yesterday am while sitting in my tree stand at 7:15 one of the ole boys started pounding and I mean he was pretty fired up. He hit 11 times on the limb and then 8 more after he pitched down. I knew right where they were roosted, about 200 yards away. Lucky for me I just so happened to bring 2 wingbone calls, one from Bob Fulcher (gobbler bones) and one from LT Pack (hen bones). So I figured, nothing ventured nothing gained and started off with a few soft clucks and yelps and I was immediately replied with 2 great responses. As Snakeboots says...it was on...
Didn't take the hens to circle the wagons and head my way, bringing at least 1 gobbler I knew of, however, I have 3 longbeards on trail cams, so.... when they arrived after a bit more coaxing with the hen wingbone from LT all 3 of the gobblers were present and accounted for
Despite being 25 feet in the tree, it was very hard to move, way too many eyes for me, but after waiting 20 minutes I managed to get a longish shot off (24yds), but missed one of the big hens. It was a blast and I can't wait till next weekend to try and do it all over again.
