Munster927
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Must be a flare nare
2024 Spring Turkey Hunt
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BritChaser
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Flare nare? I'm stupid and need to be explained to.
gimruis
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That's a nickname for the pen raised pheasants on this forum. Also known as pseudo-roosters. They look like pheasants, but they act more like domesticated poultry.
BritChaser
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what about that turkey's tail feathers? they are raggedly short.
Munster927
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My guess is something got a hold of its fan as it was trying to escape from a coyote or something. Or possibly got rolled up by a vehicle. The tail fan is definitely messed up, but it's so consistently messed up that leads me to believe something had ahold of its fan.
AKSkeeter
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My guess is the gobbler was attacked by a coyote or mountain lion that got some of those tailfeathers?
We did have a mountain lion kill a deer in our pasture the month I took those gobbler photos.
GetTothePoint
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They'll get beat up like that from fighting too.
GetTothePoint
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I love turkey hunting but I'd trade turkeys for those in our area 11 times outta 10
GetTothePoint
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Scouting this morning and heard 4 or 5 gobbles in various directions. Sitting in the truck now watching 5 hens and 2 toms in a field that used to have too many to count at this time in the morning. Kinda hard to get pumped up about throwing lead at them at this point.
Jawilor
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Got this one early Friday morning at 6:35 AM which is the earliest I have ever shot a bird. I was set up on a picked bean field on public ground with an upright hen and feeder hen set at about 25 yards out. It was a quiet sunrise and only heard a couple of faint gobbles, so the birds were pretty quiet. I did some light calling around 6:10, then a few clucks with the mouth call around 6:20. About 10 minutes later I was watching a deer grazing the right edge of the field when I caught some movement to my left out of the corner of my eye. It was a tom in full strut working his way towards my decoys. Of course I had my legs stretched out and gun across my lap, so had to wait for him to turn away so I could get my gun up. He strutted all the way to the decoys for an easy shot. 21#, 1/2" spurs, 9" beard.
gimruis
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Based on this I am assuming you don't use a blind. You just sit on the ground in a full camo outfit, like a ghillie suit.
I am a blind guy. I like how it allows me the freedom of some movement like drinking coffee or looking through binoculars. Plus if it rains, I stay dry. And I can sit in a comfortable lounger chair. The only downside is that I am not as mobile.
Jawilor
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I was tucked back in the trees behind the bird in the photo and wear leafy camo so it blends in very well. I have a blind, but only used it for youth hunts with my sons, otherwise it's just another thing to carry.
gimruis
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I set mine up a day or two in advance. And stake it down so it doesn't blow away in the wind like a giant sail.
Jawilor
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Makes sense, but I hunt public ground so it's really not an option. I would definitely do what you're doing if I had access to private ground.
Munster927
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I do the same on public ground. Only time on public ground I use a blind is bow hunting to conceal the draw. I prefer being mobile and sitting next to a tree. Just feels like turkey hunting.
BritChaser
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Lock and load! Heading to the happy hunting grounds in western KS today to prep for tomorrow's opener which we will start with a pre-dawn set up. Due to a change in the location of the corn stalks our flock feeds in, we will move our hide and decoys fifty yards, utilizing some fallen branches for a makeshift blind in an open area. This shift will make our decoys visible to the birds immediately upon fly down.
