If you have turkey hunted for any length of time, you know that some days, they simply don’t gobble. The same long beard that gobbled 50 times on the limb and 50 times on the ground yesterday has seemingly gone mute. This is when a lot of hunters head to the local café for breakfast or back to camp for a nap.
When turkeys go silent it can be from hunting pressure, predators or any number of things.
After I have given these a whirl in several areas with no response, I go to plan B.
I would quit turkey hunting tomorrow if they didn’t gobble or strut anymore. That is what draws me to the spring woods like a june bug to a light. The sound of a deep drawn out gobble in the woods at daybreak is what I live for every spring.
More times than not these birds that slip in silent are 3 or 4 year old birds with those coveted limb hangers.
But, when they ain’t gobblin’, I will take the fight to them. I am not always successful when the birds don’t gobble, but I have 0% chance of killing him at the café or the house.
Story by Shane Smith
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