Calling birds off the neighboring property

[Uncle Lou]

I want to hear how you all handle this. I got a private land southern Michigan tag which means I have to shoot one on private land. I find the birds very hateful, we have a ton of birds around, but as soon as you start hunting them they just go where you cant shoot them.

So I got a 120 I have plenty of birds on, but they just gobble and hen talk on the roost and go across the road and sit on some of the many no hunting private properties. The area I live in I describe as horse farm country. There are a lot of horse farms, a lot of overgrown and not recently farmed fields, limited crops (which are on this 120), some crappy grass fields they cut once a year, lots of swamp and lakes, and lots of little private 5, 10s, and 20s.

I got birds roosting on my west line. What do you throw at these birds?

[dan]

Shoot them at the roost...
Have you tried afternoon hunting when they come back on your property? I have noticed the hens are nesting here in S. Wisconsin and that means there hitting the nests late morning leaving the Toms to go searching for another hen.... Midday can be a great time to call right now.

[Uncle Lou]

Thats a good answer, I just need to find another afternoon for this.

I did just miss a monster boss on Monday at about 5:30pm. He was strutting in the field and I slipped in, then he started heading up the hill and I had to shoot to my hard right, facing forward and laying on my front side. Wish I had a do over, even though it was awkward I should have nailed him, man he was huge. I dont think he will be back soon in that spot, but I am watching for him. I bet I spend a hundred bucks on fuel circling that field in the next few weeks.

[BigHunt]

Shoot them at the roost...
Have you tried afternoon hunting when they come back on your property? I have noticed the hens are nesting here in S. Wisconsin and that means there hitting the nests late morning leaving the Toms to go searching for another hen.... Midday can be a great time to call right now.

this is what i do .....thats why i love hunting the late season.....it seems in western Wisconsin, that it gets good in the later season like the 5th and 6th.....by then most of the hens are laying on nest....its really easy to call in a bird in mid mourning when the hens leave the toms. sometimes i sleep in till 8-9 am, wake up go up on top, and just listen for one gobbling or glassing Fields and a lot of the time and most of the time i hear or see on and use that to my advantage ....some times i wont even call if im not on a gobbling turkey on the roost , ill just sit and wait until they start gobbling mid mourning, and then i move in for the attack silently, there so gullible late season ....but if they were hunted hard they can be spooky at times...

[muddy]

Camping the roost in the evening is the bomb diggity for finicky tongue tied longbeards. Sit there silent with no calling and bush whack them!

That or a .223 from 150 yards will do the trick.

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[BigHunt]

Camping the roost in the evening is the bomb diggity for finicky tongue tied longbeards. Sit there silent with no calling and bush whack them!

That or a .223 from 150 yards will do the trick.

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150 yards ...more like 500

[goldtip5575]

Plant corn and beans.Whatever is left over from the winter will pull them in.......

[Brad]

Shoot them at the roost...
Have you tried afternoon hunting when they come back on your property? I have noticed the hens are nesting here in S. Wisconsin and that means there hitting the nests late morning leaving the Toms to go searching for another hen.... Midday can be a great time to call right now.

this is what i do .....thats why i love hunting the late season.....it seems in western Wisconsin, that it gets good in the later season like the 5th and 6th.....by then most of the hens are laying on nest....its really easy to call in a bird in mid mourning when the hens leave the toms. sometimes i sleep in till 8-9 am, wake up go up on top, and just listen for one gobbling or glassing Fields and a lot of the time and most of the time i hear or see on and use that to my advantage ....some times i wont even call if im not on a gobbling turkey on the roost , ill just sit and wait until they start gobbling mid mourning, and then i move in for the attack silently, there so gullible late season ....but if they were hunted hard they can be spooky at times...

BH hit the nail on the head, when the hens are on the nest and don't want any Tom attention, a tom will come to just about anything. I called a tom in 2 years ago from over a half mile away and killed him. He climbed 2 hills and went down two hills over the course of an hour or so but once he saw my decoys he crossed a wide open field in a matter of seconds. He took an hour to come, but every single time he gobbled he was closer. It helps to have a LOUD box call int he late season, that particular bird came to a primos battleship boat paddle, and loud it is!

[Uncle Lou]

That's good advice sitting the roost, but the problem is they are roosting too close to the neighboring house. If I blast one there they might get a little POd during dancing with the stars, plus it is not legal here to shoot within 150 yds of a building.

There were 12 of them ganged up near one of the roost areas the other evening. With a group of hens staged up near the roost in the evening, does that mean they are not on the nest?

Or, do they leave the nest and fly up?

Or, is that weather/temperature dependent?