Anyone else going out?

[ksp771]

On opening day I was fortunate enough to harvest a 16.5 lb Jake with a 4inch beard. I am after that Longbeard and I know the clock is ticking and this is crunch time until May 5th. Is anyone else going to get out? would it be better to go with a single hen set up or dual hen?

[deerhunter1984]

I'll be going out tomorrow and the weekend...I to harvested a jake earlier this week and after my first longbeard...With the hens' pretty much going to there nest right off the roost this late in the season...I would say a dual hen set up would be your best bet IMO!!! But a single hen set up should work as well, but I'm no expert with it comes to these things...Good Luck!!!

[Hammer]

I always use a single hen if I use a decoy at all.

I'll be going today if I don't have thunderstorms all around which is what it looks like now. Rain is ok, but I'm not going out into the teeth of a yellow/red radar blob.

[Hardcase]

Going late this afternoon if I can. I still like to have a hen and a jake now because once several hens are setting the gobblers will be making sure they get what's left! They will not want a jake cutting in!

[ChuckBeav31]

IMO, its just whatever you feel like you want to operate with..be confident in what you do, and what you have. If you take 2 hens, then try calling with a mouth call, and slate (or box) call alternating them..that way you give out two different sounds, two different birds (decoys). You may want to even have a jake set up with them to give big tom something to get excited over. But thats just my opinion, and not that it counts for anything.

[Gobblergetter2.1]

IT would be better to leave the decoys at home!! I hunt on a 650 acre lease, private land, and i dont use deocys, but some guys do... ive seen them fly away when they saw a decoy!! Good luck!

[jarhedhntr]

First of all I am new at this, so take this for what it is worth. Opening morning I called in a BIG tom and 3 hens. I didn't have a decoy and the hens led him off. Made a trip to Wallyworld and bought a hen decoy and that was all it took. Brought him 80 yards and that did it. I am positive that without that visual confirmation of the calls he would have left like all the other birds from the previous day. But in the end it depends on the overall mood of the flock, might be decoy shy after alot of hunting pressure. But that is why it is hunting.