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9 Helpful Tips for Hung-Up Gobblers H
ard lessons are quickly learned on turkey hunts. Months of anticipation spent practicing turkey sounds on different calls make sleeping the night before a turkey hunt impossible. Finally, the moment of truth arrives; turkeys gobbling on a warm spring morning.
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The morning progresses and a big boy gobbles back at your hen sounds. You feel a flush of excitement as the gobbling gets louder, but then it starts sounding farther away. Soon his sounds are distant. The next day you find another active gobbler. You turn on the charm with clucks, purrs and a few light yelps to make this guy come in. He is gobbling, but not coming closer.