This morning we decided to head a place where we had been seeing and hearing 4 long beards together almost every morning.  Every time we hunted them they do the exact same…  Gobble early, fly down early and always go in the opposite direction of our calling.  The good news was there was another bird that was gobbling good in a different directoin and we went after him.

We could still hear the 4 gobbling in the distance when we set up on the bird by himself.  He gobbled good off the limb but once he flew down he found his hens quick and walked the other way without saying a word.  We kept hearing the four in the distance and they kept answering our calls and seemed to be coming our direction.  We stayed on the same tree but just turned around and faced the other direction.  Within 20 minutes they were right on top of us and Jacob poked the strutter at 45 yards with a 3 1/2″ Nitro.

What we learned:  Sometimes turkeys are in the mood sometimes they aren’t.  Many times it can be hard to work a big group of long beards like these because it seems that they are more concerned about each other and staying together than coming to a hen.  If you can get one to commit, they will all usually all commit.