Got into an argument with a hen today

The gobbles started early this morning from the usual roosting area. They flew down and were moving through the valley to my back. Suddenly just around legal shooting I heard a loud crash bang fly down probably 50 yards behind me.

All of a sudden this hen starts calling aggressively and moving through the lowlands. Every gobbler in the area was going crazy for her and and I could hear were gobbles and crashing through the woods. She must have had a bunch of gobblers following her. I imitated her aggressive calling and her calls became more and more aggressive as if she was becoming agitated. We went back and forth for 10-15min and she started to sound like she was making her way up the ridge.

I let off the calls and listened for a while. Just to my left I could hear scratching and stomping. Peaked out the side window of the blind and a tom is coming in hot.

I let him beat on the jake decoy a little while with hopes he’d bring a bigger bird in or start mating the submissive hen decoy. I suddenly got this image of him getting bored and turning his attention back to that hen in the valley (she was still yapping away), so I pulled the trigger.

6:05am
22.3 lbs
9.5” beard
1.25” spurs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ej_HjWdvwY

Great video, awesome hunt. Congrats!

Yes, nice video, great shot too...
Congrats

Ok, that was frickin amazing footage. Thanks for sharing!

great video was wondering what camera you used was it set up remote

Amazing footage, nice Tom, great shot. Congrats!

wow thanks for this post, a great video. awesome shot. i also would love to know how you set this up (camera ? go pro? )

It’s a Gopro. They have limited battery life, especially when using wifi for remote controlling, so I set them up and press record before legal shooting and just let them roll. Edit out what I don’t need, but recording that early you can hear the woods come alive and exactly when the gobbling starts.

It is plugged in to a portable usb battery bank. I think this one is 10000mah. With 2 cameras plugged into the same bank it’ll keep them charged long enough to record until their sd cards are full. With 64gb cards, that’s roughly 6.5 hours on the recording settings I use.

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Originally Posted by taketheshot

It’s a Gopro. They have limited battery life, especially when using wifi for remote controlling, so I set them up and press record before legal shooting and just let them roll. Edit out what I don’t need, but recording that early you can hear the woods come alive and exactly when the gobbling starts.

It is plugged in to a portable usb battery bank. I think this one is 10000mah. With 2 cameras plugged into the same bank it’ll keep them charged long enough to record until their sd cards are full. With 64gb cards, that’s roughly 6.5 hours on the recording settings I use.

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that is awesome, ive been looking at the gopros recently, they are worth a pretty buck but the quality and convenience seems like a worthwhile purchase. especially if you can get shots like this! LOL

Great vid congrats

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Originally Posted by Bowjob

that is awesome, ive been looking at the gopros recently, they are worth a pretty buck but the quality and convenience seems like a worthwhile purchase. especially if you can get shots like this! LOL

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I bought my first gopro brand new but will never do that again. I own 4 in total, 3 were purchased used. I buy up the hero 3’s and 3+’s off kijiji when they are a good price. People buy gopros thinking they’re going to be like the adventurous ones in the commercials mountain climbing, surfing, skydiving... then they sit around for years unused and get sold on kijiji for a fraction of the price. They can be found for $80-100 in mint condition, then you can sell off some of the accessories that come with it (remote, battery packs, lcd’s..) and end up paying less in the end. Cheapest one I bought ended up being $50 after selling off accessories. Some people try to sell these used ones for much more but they are about 7-8 years old.. you can talk them down. They dont use them anyway.

You dont need the top of the line model for recording these videos. They are stationary and dont need all the features the new ones come with. Plus for this price if they accidentally get stomped by a bird or shot by a hunting buddy with a poor shot.. its not the end of the world hah.

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Originally Posted by taketheshot

I bought my first gopro brand new but will never do that again. I own 4 in total, 3 were purchased used. I buy up the hero 3’s and 3+’s off kijiji when they are a good price. People buy gopros thinking they’re going to be like the adventurous ones in the commercials mountain climbing, surfing, skydiving... then they sit around for years unused and get sold on kijiji for a fraction of the price. They can be found for $80-100 in mint condition, then you can sell off some of the accessories that come with it (remote, battery packs, lcd’s..) and end up paying less in the end. Cheapest one I bought ended up being $50 after selling off accessories. Some people try to sell these used ones for much more but they are about 7-8 years old.. you can talk them down. They dont use them anyway.

You dont need the top of the line model for recording these videos. They are stationary and dont need all the features the new ones come with. Plus for this price if they accidentally get stomped by a bird or shot by a hunting buddy with a poor shot.. its not the end of the world hah.

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THANKS FOR THE ADVICE!!! will be on the search fvor them now hahah

Great video and nice tom. Cant believe you were hoping for a bigger bird to come in lol. Sounds like there are a lot of birds where you hunt.

awesome job on the footage and of the bird..I think you had a few good videos last year also didnt you?? thanks for sharing

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Originally Posted by Bones

Great video and nice tom. Cant believe you were hoping for a bigger bird to come in lol. Sounds like there are a lot of birds where you hunt.

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I hunt a very productive area in wmu 92 and there were plenty of gobbles behind me in the valley. If anything a second bird coming in would have made for neater footage!

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Originally Posted by kokes

awesome job on the footage and of the bird..I think you had a few good videos last year also didnt you?? thanks for sharing

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Yes I have a few videos on the YouTube channel. I love filming my turkey hunts because it lets me relive the action again and again. I’ve also used the footage to see things I didn’t see when hunting like one time I shot a tom but after reviewing the footage noticed 3 jakes standing in the treeline. Last week I took a buddy out and he missed a bird. We reviewed the footage and saw his shot placement. The shot just skimmed the tom’s back just behind the neck. Having the footage added a little closure and explanation to the “I had the bead right on his head!!” argument.

Very cool video! congrats....

Awesome video. Thanks for posting.

Great video!
That Tom pounding on the decoy was entertaining.

Great video as usual thanks for posting