Busting up a flock

[Buckmaster7600]

All of us have had toms henned up in the middle of a field that wouldn't come your way? My approach to this is to use the fall tactic of busting them up. I'll run into the flock and bust them up, then I'll sneak in the direction they went and set up 40 or 50yds into the woods eat a sandwich or take a quick nap and after 20 or 30 minutes get ready because most of the time the birds will be coming right back. This works even better if you can use an atv or a truck Because it doesn't seem to bother them as bad and they'll come back even sooner.

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[TACC]

Interesting idea

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[sodfather]

I have done this and only have had Jakes or hens come to find me. Maybe it's my calling but a technique that does work just hasn't completely worked for me yet. I try to use the ki ki run call. I have something against shooting a Jake personally but will or would try this technique again if it presented itself 

[Buckmaster7600]

I have done this and only have had Jakes or hens come to find me. Maybe it's my calling but a technique that does work just hasn't completely worked for me yet. I try to use the ki ki run call. I have something against shooting a Jake personally but will or would try this technique again if it presented itself 

I don't call at all, I just sit and wait to hear them trying to find each other then cut them off.


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[sodfather]

10 minutes ago, Buckmaster7600 said:

 

Oh interesting great thanks for the tip I will try this

I don't call at all, I just sit and wait to hear them trying to find each other then cut them off.


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[turkeyfeathers]

13 minutes ago, Buckmaster7600 said:

 

 

 

 

I don't call at all, I just sit and wait to hear them trying to find each other then cut them off.


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Do you own a ghili suit ? Or one of those leafy suits ? Thinking for super stealth mode and moving this may help.

Ha, never thought of busting up a spring flock. Going to throw this idea in my arsenal.

[Buckmaster7600]

Do you own a ghili suit ? Or one of those leafy suits ? Thinking for super stealth mode and moving this may help.

Ha, never thought of busting up a spring flock. Going to throw this idea in my arsenal.

Running and "gunning" with a bow a ghillie suite is absolutely essential! As is breaking up the outline of my bow, I use decoration ivy and a piece of artificial XMas tree on my bow to break up the straight lines. I'm not sure what I'm going to do this year with the long bow but it will have something.

I did it once by accident and killed a bird and have been doing it ever since. For me it has been extremely successful.

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[Pygmy]

A good friend of mine, one of the deadliest gobbler slayers I know, uses this technique often, and not just on field birds.

Often he gets between hens and the gobbler on the roost and then tries to flush them in opposite directions..He's filled a lot of tags that way over the years.

[G-Man]

I've had a friend kill a bird out of a flock in the spring and then I kill another a short time later when they try to 3rd group.. Very effective in early season when they are still grouped up

[Uncle Nicky]

Another magic trick you can pull out of your bag when things are going tough, why not give it a try, you don't have anything to lose. I accidentally broke a spring flock a number of years ago, and a gobbler wound up taking a ride in the back of my truck that day.  I do know that in the fall, gobblers usually take a LONGGG time to group back up if they are scattered (hens and poults not so much), curious if they behave the same way in the spring?

[Pygmy]

2 hours ago, Uncle Nicky said:

Another magic trick you can pull out of your bag when things are going tough, why not give it a try, you don't have anything to lose. I accidentally broke a spring flock a number of years ago, and a gobbler wound up taking a ride in the back of my truck that day.  I do know that in the fall, gobblers usually take a LONGGG time to group back up if they are scattered (hens and poults not so much), curious if they behave the same way in the spring?

It's been my experience that a gobbler will try to get back with a hen in the spring much quicker than he'll try to regroup with other toms in the fall.

Fall gobblers sometimes regroup in a couple of hours, but just as often it' several hours, or perhaps tomorrow or the next day.

Bust a tom away from his lady friends in the spring, and it won't be long before he tries to re-connect with them.

[turkeyfeathers]

Speaking of flocks. Just got a text from my brother. He stopped counting at 50 birds and thinking there was 60 or so all together. Oh boy, I just want a few of them longbeards to hang out after they split up. Maybe even a dumb one or two please. Assuming another flock joined 2 separate I kept seeing during deer season. Those were 14 and 29  Off to do some recon as soon as I can cross the creek again.