Dang at the spurs! Congrats! I have a 6 yr old has to be in every dead animal picture we take and has been since he was 2 yrs old. Maybe we've got a cpl little future killers (.... errr turkey killers that is).

First time turkey hunting ever. I did here a gobble @ 7 and heard him fly down, sounded like maybe 100-150 yards away so I set and tried calling but I guess he went the other way. then on the way out around 10 on the other side of the river one gobbled twice so I drive over there and no luck. Was it likely the same bird? I'm still new I wasn't sure how they were about flying over water. I've only seen them fly when spooked or roosting.

Turkey will go wherever​ he wants. Could be same bird could not. Keep up after them. Remember call sparringly and be patient.

Powpow, its exactly like buckbrush said. Turkey gonna go where he wants to go. That's one thing I learned about my turkeys over time. Just pay attention to where they seem to go when they don't cooperate. You'll start seeing a pattern and it'll help in picking setup locations.

Thanks guys, back at it today, at least till the rain gets here

I'm here and hoping they talk this morning.

Hope everyone stays dry. I will be at work for the next 5 days then back at it.

I should've paid more attention to weather. Thought rain was coming in later today. It run me in a pop up blind a club member put up on a clover patch. If i knew i was going to be hunting out of a blind i wouldve went to a different spot

Be ready when that sun pops out might be a game changer.

Man 4 more days till I can get back after them sure makes for some long working days.

I didn't hear the first gobble today. Almost went up to DeKalb county this morning, couldn't have done any worse. So I have a question that may be stupid but oh well. If I am close to a roosted Tom (within hearing distance) will they always gobble before or right after flying down? And how often do the roost in the same area? Sorry if the questions are a little elementary but I'm just don't know haha

Most birds don't gobble. For everyone that's gobbling out there alot more are staying silent. This can be from competition where they don't want to get their butt kicked from a dominant bird or more likely a band of disgruntle Jake's. Many many more reasons but to answer your question no a Gobbler will not always gobble on roost or on the ground.

Where a Gobbler roosts depends really on the bird and how much pressure is put on him or where his hens are roosting. Some birds are very predictable where they roost others roost just where they are at the point it's getting dark. Terrain also has alot to do with it.

Dang yall, I'm about worthless this year. Other than my wife shooting that youngun Thursday afternoon, I can't get within 65 yds of a gobbler. Had one skirt me at 65 this afternoon and then came back by at same distance 30min later.... my mistake I put a friggin decoy out. I don't know why I use em. I try it once a yr and I always get one either hung or flared by em then I put back on the shelf. I was using one of those dakota jakes and this was obviously a 2yr old that had been whooped and didn't want to risk it with a partially strutting bird. I had a close call yesterday also but he had way to many hens. Oh well, maybe I can get after em later in the week but first time I've ever been able to get out and hunt the first 5 days of season so I'm blaming it on the weather...

NE, I use one of those jake decoys and haven't had one scared off b/c of it. I have figured out that they will circle and come up from behind it instead of face to face like they do a strutter. It cost me a turkey to figure that out. Sucker tried climbing in my lap while circling to come in behind that jake!

I plan to be back after them in the morning.

reeve - I can see that happening too but I was in some open woods off a road. I watched him work his way uphill on the road (it was almost too good to be true) and the second he stepped up on my bench and got line of sight and noticed the jake he literally turned and ran. I have a pack of 8 jakes running around (was 9 before my wife killed0 and they are probably working over some of the single gobblers so I think that's the main problem... the current environment opposed to the decoy itself. ha. I'm hoping to get back out Wednesday.

I hardly ever use decoys but when I do it's in fields. I've only tried them twice in woods and both times the birds spooked. One I had pitching in off his roost flew 100yds down a creek to me but as soon as he rounded a tree he saw my decoys and flared like a duck and landed 70 yds across the creek on the opposite ridge. All I could do was watch him walk over the hill.

buckbrush - That's now my experience on 2 of 3 times using decoys in woods. The other experience was a gobbler hung up one bench down and strutted over an hr back and forth in front of my lone hen decoy expecting her to go to him. That was a classic dead bird in my normal situations if he had popped that head up looking for her and met business end of an 835. After 20-something yrs, still making rookie mistakes.... that's should be my signature.

Just getting off of work. Two days and I will be after them again.

Killed a solid 3 year old today. Got on him around 7 30 this morning didn't pull the trigger till 12:30