Finally Success

Started a bit late on Saturday morning walking in I busted 6 birds off the roost where they normally don't roost.
I figured the morning was ruined then I heard a distant gobble so I quickly set up in a spot I don't and made a call and a hen responded so I thought. With the fog in the field i was scanning with my binos but didn't see anything but I could hear this hen yelping.
Out of the fog I see a bird walking towards my hen decoy but it looked and sound funny not a gobble or a yelp but a loud shreik of some kind. I waited till it got to my decoy and looking for a beard couldn't see any and for about 5 minutes this bird was strolling around the hen decoy and suddenly it tried to gobble and sounded weird. As it turned at one point I could see a beard sticking straight out and new it was a jake made a call with the mouth call it stuck it's neck out and boom it was over. I was home at 6:30 having a coffee on the back porch. It was the shortest turkey hunt i ever had. I didn't enter it in the contest as it had nubs for spurs and a 5" beard.Attachment 40404

Congrats! Always nice when things go unexpectedly in your favour!

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size of the bird doesn't make a good hunter but what they do when the plan goes to pot does. Good hunt enjoy the eats.

Jakes and Toms yelp more often than you think. In fact Jake yelps are one of my secret weapons for hung up longbeards. My second Tom this year came in yelping his face off around 1:30pm, with no gobbles.

At times a group of yelping Jakes can sound like the scratching and screeching you hear when a train goes by!

-Nick

Right move to take that Jake, especially now.

Nice bird congrats.

Congrats for your success, time is running out fast.

Thanks to all,
G.S. I took my first bird on May 31st, 2000 at 11:30AM that's when you could only hunt till 12:00PM that was cutting it close