I've been working this one big tom this year. I've seen him w/hens, I've seen him by himself and seen him w/8 jakes strutting in the middle of a field w/no hens. This boy won’t come to a call. I worked him for over a mile last Sunday, he took me away, I got in front of him, had the jakes right in front of me and he would gobble off about 100yds out, then he took me back to where we started. Got a picture of him, no hens, as he went by my game camera at 11:15am and then a picture of me stepping over the same log at 11:51am. Yesterday morning he gobbled once, I was across a field from him, they were quite the night before so I sat at one of his roosts. At 6:15am 2 hens came out w/him on their tail. I walked around them sat up in front of them just to have the hens cross the field. I went back and sat up where I thought they would come through and here come the hens. They were long gone by the time he showed up at round 200 yds out. I called and he strutted, gobbled and walked back to his corner where he came from. I went home got some work done around the house moved a ground blind to a spot where he goes through in the afternoon. I've called at him on several afternoons between 5 and 6 and he goes right back to his corner and gobbles until they go to the roost. So last night in my ground blind w/a stutter Tom decoy w/2 hens. At 6 strait up he gobbled and strutted right by my set up out of range to his corner.
When I made a gobble call he would hang around but not for long. I've had Toms do this several times over the years, but this is my first year I’ve seen him most of the time doing it. I've never gone after just one bird before but this guy has got me on a mission. Some times there is just that one call they like, I have to find one of my wingbone calls I made. They are packed in a box some where from our move.
