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I've seen more turkeys in the last 2 years than I have in the previous 10 years combined.

They seem to be everywhere.

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So the plan for the night is to pull my buddies  blind out and sit my blind  till dark as it's where the guys came across  the mtn lion during  the archery  elk hunt.

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What call are you using? New to turkey as a whole, but heard that the best luck you’ll have in the fall is using a crow call to locate them. Any truth to that?

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15 hours ago, nmurray10 said:

What call are you using? New to turkey as a whole, but heard that the best luck you’ll have in the fall is using a crow call to locate them. Any truth to that?

I used a cheap raspy hen box call and the call Brian ( IA born 's ) son made he does  make a good  pot call. 

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So we hopped back in my blind for the night  hoping to see the mtn lion . No luck ! Did have more turkey  come in right  where they should  have earlier  for me . We had birds at 10 to 20 yds . It was some great  practice  trying  to mimic there sounds .They hung around  for awhile.  Then we had a few cow elk and a small 4x4 come in. I was finally  able to get yardage  on my shot and was surprised  it was over 65 yds . I'm shooting  a sx3 12 gage and heavy shot bismuth mixed loads there on the hot side 1450 fps. 

 

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Being done hunting  and getting  my sxs back up and running  thanks to Amazon  and my hunting  buddies  wife who was due to make the trip up Friday  after work  . I ran into another  group  of hunters looking  for birds for a young hunter. So I told Rocky and his grandson  about my spot and how and when the birds were coming  in . Right at 5pm everyday. Then went to return  my buddies  sxs to him . Later that day my buddy and i were shooting  guns me my 300blk and 280ai  and him some big boomer  guns a ruger#1 in 416 rigby and a 375 ultra mag . Just about  a hour before  dark and down the trail the guys come and they had a bird for the grandson  . He thanked me over and over again  . They couldn't  believe  that the birds came in just like I said  they would  . That's  definitely  the best part of the trip for me . I did get to see antelope just past camp and take my wife to a tank she hadn't  seen . Just about  a hundred  yds before  the tank I stopped  and glassed and caught  movement  . A herd of deer was on there way into water and we just sat and watched and got pictures. 

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IMG_1174.thumb.jpeg.3ac82a31bf199fe961f6bc1b1319edb2.jpegAwesome weekend. Went up to 6B on Thursday to set up camp and recheck areas from prior weekend. Turkeys were running a little earlier than week before but still came into tanks at 5:15.   Opening was head out before dawn and walk the ridges surrounding tanks and locate their roost.  By mid morning had three opportunities on over 30 birds including being busted by 4 Jake’s. Evening all hens so let them pass in hoping for a Tom.  Second day same and by 10 had a flock of 30 to  40 pass me by at 70 yards    I watched them feed at 100 yards for an hour,  calling softly only to have them respond and return to my location.  I was able to set up on taking a 25 yard shot on hen and couldn’t be happier. First turkey.  Box checked and looking forward to another hunt. 

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52 minutes ago, Jalt said:

IMG_1174.thumb.jpeg.3ac82a31bf199fe961f6bc1b1319edb2.jpegAwesome weekend. Went up to 6B on Thursday to set up camp and recheck areas from prior weekend. Turkeys were running a little earlier than week before but still came into tanks at 5:15.   Opening was head out before dawn and walk the ridges surrounding tanks and locate their roost.  By mid morning had three opportunities on over 30 birds including being busted by 4 Jake’s. Evening all hens so let them pass in hoping for a Tom.  Second day same and by 10 had a flock of 30 to  40 pass me by at 70 yards    I watched them feed at 100 yards for an hour,  calling softly only to have them respond and return to my location.  I was able to set up on taking a 25 yard shot on hen and couldn’t be happier. First turkey.  Box checked and looking forward to another hunt. 

NIce bird. Were you using a .410?

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