How To Move Birds

[freedomrules3]

OK I got 2 really nice birds hanging out about 1/2 mile down the road from my house. I see them everyday. I cant hunt them where they are but if i could only get them to move north just a bit they would be dead meat . I was wondering if i went in there tomorrow evening and made them fly north if they would maybe just stay once they get my way lol. maybe a ridiculous question i guess but exactly how is the best way to get them outta where they are and get them to move north? i thought i would just pressure them outta where they are by walking the small field and making them fly. or i could just get the wife to drop me off with the bow lol j/k

[hatracked]

Ive been watching the flock across the street from my house grow year after year. The flock tom total prior to this season was up to 26 longbeards . I cant hunt em and Im sure next year it will be up to 35-40. Probably a good thing it's like a turkey hatchery in the neighborhood , the spillover keeps the rest of us in birds. Cant kill em all Rick.

However if you insist on trying , spook em early afternoon then get as close as your able and call like regrouping hens ( cutting single clucking yelping) an hour before fly up. Go back in the morning , and try to call em over. Many times all it takes is a litlle helping of new hen over yonder to get them to break their routine for a day or two. When you get a bird to step onto strange ground hes easy to kill , keep that in your back pocket.

[scdave449]

Good advice from a good hunter, to a good hunter, John. Believe I might go a step further, and consider a fly-up call or two a little closer to your ground before you pack it up for the night. Do it early the next morning and stand your ground til you see the whites of their eyes, then tumble and toss 'em dead. Am still considering the return trip "shore", so I'll be in touch. Good luck and remember leave a few for seed.

[freedomrules3]

i think there is plenty of seed out there. just frustrating hunting hard and driving by grazing birds lol. thanks for the advice. i think i just may leave em be since its so late in the season now. they found a safe spot and deserve to live another season i guess. i will however after season try and coax them behind the house. i got some hens back there but cant locate a tom. i know the old saying where theres hens... but i have listened pretty much nightly for just a single gobble and nuthin. thanks i will keep this in the memory bank though for future references

[jplittlebuck]

i'm starting to run into that senario more and more over the last few years myself,,, were birds are visable from the road, and the land is posted, and there's really no home to ask permission, parking on the road, and just going in after them, would be just plain ignerant, and actually making the effort to find the land owner, is just to time comsuming, especially with Tom's in many other locations, but sometimes there just not coopertive, in comming to the end of the barrel, so we get forced to find other locations,
i like to use the ropeAdope method, which is acsess on a side road, or the back of a block, if the terrain if friendly enough, LOL
getting a roosted bird to pitch out to a specific location can be a tough proposition, although i have bumped many a hen away from Tom's after flyup, for the next morning hunt, and just getting them away is usually all i need, but i'm always supprised at the directions they fly somtimes, not always ideal, somtimes the buggers dont want to leave, and have been forced to smack the base of the tree with a limb untill they fly off, LOL
a few times a particular gobbler that i have been hard hunting for a few days,, roosts in a bad location, making him vonerable to someone else killing him, when i know a particular woods are going to get heavy pressure the next morning,
so i may try to bump him farther deeper into the woods,
less chance of some ying yang shooting him off the limb,
or anyone else just klling him, chances of me killing a bird like that the next morning is tough, but i have done it, but chances are better of me killing him a few days later durring a week day,
your in a tough one there Rick, and getting a bird to pitch out in the direction you want, let alone 1/2 mile down the road, is a tough propisition,
if hunting that location is a definate No go, i would keep a close eye on them to adjoining property's, of course
you have a much better chance of one of those Toms moving off that property if you were in phase 2 of the breeding cycle, but i'm going to bet your in phase 3, and if thats the case i'll bet your just out of luck for them moveing, more then likely there on comfortable ground, and winding down, and in no great hurry to venture off, good luck with that...