Gobble Call Does it Again!

[Rhino]

For whatever reason the birds haven't been as vocal lately. Before dawn Friday morning I'm sitting close to where I heard a bird roosted previously. With a breeze blowing flydown time comes and goes without the 1st yodel from a love sick gobbler. Time to cover some ground I guess. Well I checked on a bird I was saving for a youth hunter this weekend. He was rocking the ground gobbling out the back side of one of our bigger food plots. Another couple of hours passes checking different areas and I return to where I started around 9:30. I find a comfortable tree and throw out some clucking and purring followed by the gobble call. A second later a bird answers in the distance. Time to cut off some distance so I try to cut it in half and set up again. Another gobble call thrown out that he answers again. Only problem is I haven't even cut the distance by a 1/3 yet and he's across a blacktop road but still on our property. Time to cut some distance again and get on his side of the road. About 10 minutes later I'm set on a not so comfortable tree about 10 yards off of a small opening on the ridge where I'd last heard him gobble. I call...no answer. Dang. About 5 minutes later I call and double gobble at myself and no answer. Some 15 more minutes of silence or so goes by. I'm now pondering my options when a hen suddenly appears from behind a tree inside the 20 yard line. Amazing how they can do that. She feeds around and starts feeding toward my left when a gobbler steps out from behind another tree at about the 35 yard line. A short check time to make sure he's mature and a load of Nitro 4x5x7's hits him in the face at 10:30 in the morning. My 2nd MS bird for the season totes a 9 3/4" beard along with 15/16" spurs on both sides.

[wtnhunt]

Congratulations Al.

What gobble call are you using? Think I am going to have to get one.

[BAMABUCKS]

Congrats on #2.

[jesse8953]

Looks like a primo call to me. Nice bird

[Rhino]

What gobble call are you using?

The Gobbler made by Primos.

It's the only gobble call I've used for the past 10 or 12 years. I'm on my 3rd one now. I gave my 1st one to a guide in TX after tricking some Rios there. I wore my 2nd one out.

[slughunter]

Thats an awesome bird, Congrats on him. Seems like every year you have no problem tagging out. Seems like the gobbler call is where its at this year, hopefully I get some use out of mine.

-shane

[Nut]

Congratulations

[ccwhitey]

Nice looking bird congrats

[WHISKEYSWAMP]

good bird and hunt... congrats!

[wtnhunt]

The Gobbler made by Primos.

It's the only gobble call I've used for the past 10 or 12 years. I'm on my 3rd one now. I gave my 1st one to a guide in TX after tricking some Rios there. I wore my 2nd one out.

Thanks Al, I will have to see if I can find one around here somewhere this week.

[toddyboman]

i know Rhino has made us all believers out of that gobbler call.

WTG on another great bird.

[pointing_dogs_rule]

congrats on another nice bird

good luck to all
the dog

[VermontHunter]

CONGRATS on a GREAT MS Tom andout smarting that gobbler ...

I'm going to have to make it down there and have you guide me on a hunt I see ...

[NiteRunner]

Gotta love that Gobble Call! Congrads!

[Bowtech_archer07]

Nice lookin bird! Congrats on him and a great hunt!