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<blockquote data-quote="Buck Buster" data-source="post: 1554322" data-attributes="member: 99718"><p>I am 66 years old now, but back 30-35 years ago when I was learning to turkey hunt I would go out before season and call gobblers in and I actually did what you would call experiment with them, I had some I actually had to throw stones at to get them to leave ! You are right when you say they have great eye sight and hearing, they know exactly within yards of where you are when you make your first call ! and I want to say here that, that is all the calling that is needed many times ! If the gobblers are alone and no hens go to him he will most likely come looking for the hen he heard, he may never gobble, just come slowly stopping and watching for the hen as he works his way to where he heard the hen. I have called loud, soft, and everything in between while having gobblers close to me, inside 40 yards and none of the calling scared the ones that I did this to, probably 5 or 6 ! It may be because they were already there,I don't know the reason why thy do a lot of the things that they do, but other than the keen senses that they have, they are a relatively dumb bird ! Hate to burst some of your bubbles but I have called literally 100's in and watched them for long periods of time and have to conclude they really aren't as smart as they get credit for! I have left turkeys leave and called them back several times, and others come in and stay for an hour or more and won't leave, and then there are those that don't stick around long at all if they don't find a hen there ! I don't think for one second that they can reason and say that if there is no hen there when they arrive that it is a hunter calling ! This happens all the time in the turkey woods, a turkey calls and then leaves that area to feed or in the case of a hen in the spring may have gone to another gobbler that she heard ! If they could reason they would know that a decoy isn't the real thing once they get to it ! I have never had luck with decoys but I do know they can work, my brother swears by them, he has had them come in and stand on top of them trying to mate them ! He has a video of one doing his thing on top of a decoy and the decoy fall over on its side, this would tell something that was smart that the gig was up, but the dumb thing got back on top of a hard plastic decoy laying on its side on the ground and started mating it again ! Another stupid thing I have seen them do is when two or more gobblers come to a hunter and one is shot the others are too stupid to flee and instead rush into the one that was just shot and start pecking and flogging it ! DUMB ! But move at the wrong time, bump your gun against something and make a noise , or let them see the reflection off of your gun or glasses and they are GONE ! Not smart, they are just being turkeys !</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Buck Buster, post: 1554322, member: 99718"] I am 66 years old now, but back 30-35 years ago when I was learning to turkey hunt I would go out before season and call gobblers in and I actually did what you would call experiment with them, I had some I actually had to throw stones at to get them to leave ! You are right when you say they have great eye sight and hearing, they know exactly within yards of where you are when you make your first call ! and I want to say here that, that is all the calling that is needed many times ! If the gobblers are alone and no hens go to him he will most likely come looking for the hen he heard, he may never gobble, just come slowly stopping and watching for the hen as he works his way to where he heard the hen. I have called loud, soft, and everything in between while having gobblers close to me, inside 40 yards and none of the calling scared the ones that I did this to, probably 5 or 6 ! It may be because they were already there,I don't know the reason why thy do a lot of the things that they do, but other than the keen senses that they have, they are a relatively dumb bird ! Hate to burst some of your bubbles but I have called literally 100's in and watched them for long periods of time and have to conclude they really aren't as smart as they get credit for! I have left turkeys leave and called them back several times, and others come in and stay for an hour or more and won't leave, and then there are those that don't stick around long at all if they don't find a hen there ! I don't think for one second that they can reason and say that if there is no hen there when they arrive that it is a hunter calling ! This happens all the time in the turkey woods, a turkey calls and then leaves that area to feed or in the case of a hen in the spring may have gone to another gobbler that she heard ! If they could reason they would know that a decoy isn't the real thing once they get to it ! I have never had luck with decoys but I do know they can work, my brother swears by them, he has had them come in and stand on top of them trying to mate them ! He has a video of one doing his thing on top of a decoy and the decoy fall over on its side, this would tell something that was smart that the gig was up, but the dumb thing got back on top of a hard plastic decoy laying on its side on the ground and started mating it again ! Another stupid thing I have seen them do is when two or more gobblers come to a hunter and one is shot the others are too stupid to flee and instead rush into the one that was just shot and start pecking and flogging it ! DUMB ! But move at the wrong time, bump your gun against something and make a noise , or let them see the reflection off of your gun or glasses and they are GONE ! Not smart, they are just being turkeys ! [/QUOTE]
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