What interferences have you had?

[ksp771]

Went out today ready to nail that second Gobbler. Got to my spot a nice level ridgeline with open fields 50 yards from a strut area....Found that the neighbor farm owner had put up a cattle fence the entire length of the property so no gobblers were comming my way today. today would have been the day. I heard several double gobbles to my hen yelps. But the Cuts what brought them closer just did not want to shoot them on his side of the fence.

[huntmadd]

I tag out but early in the first week I put a bird to bed. Got there earlt before daylight started working this bird he's on one ridge I on the othere of corse.Anyway he finnaly broke I could see three birds comeing up the ridge ended up being two jakes and a tom.I was about to put the smack down on the tom and a yote busted them up and birds were flying everywhere.He ran threw so I did even get to bust the yote.Now that sucks!!!!!!! I will get him one day soon I hope.

[skin_dog1]

The most interference I've had this year was with hens as usual.

[ril7572]

I had problems with road hunters this morning. They had to be run off twice:eek: . After this was taken care of we had a great hunt:D

[turkeyman]

Coyote busted the first bird this morning and two dogs running deer screwed up the second bird that I had 1 1/2 hours invested in. :mad:

[keith meador]

went to a farm as a guest, got there early, set out decoys and waited for daylight. right at daylight, i saw another hunter walking across the field. he stopped and asked if i had heard any birds yet. i told him i had heard one "down the ridge" and the other hunter took off like a shot. not 10 minutes after he left the bird i had roosted the night before sounded off in front of me.....a few minutes after that, the other hunter, at a dead run, ran past me and into the woodline.

not being the kind of hunter to get mad, after all i was a guest and that guy had been hunting the farm for years, i took out my jake gobbler. my best guess is i ran that guy 3 or 4 miles back and forth on that ridge and thru that holler until i got tired of watching him run.......i left about 930 or so and met him at the gate. he asked if i had heard all the birds gobbling, i said yep, didnt see any though.....how about you? he said he didnt see any either, and everytime he set up the birds would shut up......imagine that.

i had one other run in with the same guy. i think he was there for the excersise and not the hunting.....

[KentuckyTracker]

Yesterday, I sat up in my blind waiting for a gobbler to come it that I had been 'whooing' for about 30 minutes. Next thing I know some kid and his buddies come barreling through the woods on 4 wheelers. I got fed up, and just left. I told the farmer that I had run into some kids back there and that I was just going to call it a day. He said that no one else had permission to be on his land ... period. He said I should have asked them to leave, but I didn't feel it was my place, so I just let it go. May try again tomorrow morning.

[CPA Hunter]

Old thread, but dadgumit -- hunting over in that foreign land across the river and had about the best in a while for me. NOT that the interference was that bad, but just dadgumit -- they were IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Set up on a roosted tom. He fires off at about the right time and I am tight on him with all the leaves and the wet ground. I mean tight, folks I can see something close when he gobbles! About fly down time a hen fires off to my right. Now this late in the season I'm pretty suspect that this ain't no hen calling from a stationary position. This idiot, answered every gobble and then some. He called nonfreakin stop for 15 or 20 minutes (probably across the property line), I bet he called 200 times -- seriously. I cut at him, and he gets louder. He was having a calling contest, except he only knew how to yelp. I will say he got half the birds in the county fired up. He called in 3 jakes in my lap, while I'm waiting for this longbeard to land. It was a freakin calling/gobbling fest. Anyway, I finally realize through this red haze I am seeing that I have a crow call, and I make the nastiest racket with it and he stops for about 30 seconds then I fire right back and he figures out I'm right with the bird and he might be about to get caught trespassing -- so he goes up the creek aways and starts again (where I can still hear him). Now, what do I do, give up the bird or chase the tresspasser -- last day -- the trespasser will have to wait. Have you ever seen a gobbler sit on a limb for ONE hour and 45 minutes and gobble -- well I did this morning (my tailbone is still sore and my leg just woke up a little while ago -- and I tell you what that longbeard did not go to this idiot.

I guess the guy was having fun just making a bird gobble, but I think 99.0% of us know to lay off a roosted bird. That gobbler really wanted that hen to come to him and the more this guy called the more the bird gobbled and just sat up there and did his thing.

By the way, I found his foot prints on the creek and he did come about 20 yards across the line. Scary thing was we could have been in a crossfire had that bird landed between us.

[ksp771]

Sad story. But sounds like that crossfire would have been a nasty thing to deal with. God must have been watching over you that day.
Old thread, but dadgumit -- hunting over in that foreign land across the river and had about the best in a while for me. NOT that the interference was that bad, but just dadgumit -- they were IDIOTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Set up on a roosted tom. He fires off at about the right time and I am tight on him with all the leaves and the wet ground. I mean tight, folks I can see something close when he gobbles! About fly down time a hen fires off to my right. Now this late in the season I'm pretty suspect that this ain't no hen calling from a stationary position. This idiot, answered every gobble and then some. He called nonfreakin stop for 15 or 20 minutes (probably across the property line), I bet he called 200 times -- seriously. I cut at him, and he gets louder. He was having a calling contest, except he only knew how to yelp. I will say he got half the birds in the county fired up. He called in 3 jakes in my lap, while I'm waiting for this longbeard to land. It was a freakin calling/gobbling fest. Anyway, I finally realize through this red haze I am seeing that I have a crow call, and I make the nastiest racket with it and he stops for about 30 seconds then I fire right back and he figures out I'm right with the bird and he might be about to get caught trespassing -- so he goes up the creek aways and starts again (where I can still hear him). Now, what do I do, give up the bird or chase the tresspasser -- last day -- the trespasser will have to wait. Have you ever seen a gobbler sit on a limb for ONE hour and 45 minutes and gobble -- well I did this morning (my tailbone is still sore and my leg just woke up a little while ago -- and I tell you what that longbeard did not go to this idiot.

I guess the guy was having fun just making a bird gobble, but I think 99.0% of us know to lay off a roosted bird. That gobbler really wanted that hen to come to him and the more this guy called the more the bird gobbled and just sat up there and did his thing.

By the way, I found his foot prints on the creek and he did come about 20 yards across the line. Scary thing was we could have been in a crossfire had that bird landed between us.

[gators8]

after about 3 days of watching a flock of birds with a huge gobbler , enter and leave our property by using the same hole in the fence.I made a blind on the fence line, 25 yds from the hole.From this spot i could also see the neighbors entire field where they were roosting, so i would see them coming from a long way off.Noone had been hunting on the neighbors field.
Next day ,daylight comes and here comes the flock right down the middle of the field straight at me.All of a sudden 2 jakes in the flock turn and bee line it to the far side of the field.I get turned around to see a hen and jake decoy.The jakes ran to the decoys and saw something wasnt right and ran back to the flock heading my way.I get into position to shoot with the birds at 75 yds and closing the gap when they all take off flying all the way to the other end of the field and are gone. Im thinkin what the heck happened , i didnt move.
I turn back to see the guy walking out and picking up his decoys.ITS 30 mins after daylight.It turned out to be enough to keep the birds out of the field for the next two days and the season was over. He didnt know i was there. so in theory , he could have waited 2 more minutes and slipped out of there if he had to leave .Idiot!

[RutNBuck]

"I get turned around to see a hen and jake decoy

""get into position to shoot with the birds at 75 yds and closing the gap when they all take off flying all the way to the other end of the field and are gone. Im thinkin what the heck happened , i didnt move"

"He didnt know i was there. so in theory , he could have waited 2 more minutes and slipped out of there if he had to leave .Idiot!"


Gator im not sure how much turkey hunting experience you have..above are a few things that caught my attention that worries me

1-if i saw a hen/jake decoy i would want to make sure that who ever was there KNOWS im there too you stated he didnt know you was there...

maybe he knew you was there and felt unsafe NO BIRD is worth getting shot or shooting someone...so sounds like to be he played safety first for both you and him

2-you mentioned that you got into position to shoot the on coming birds and they spooked i was wondering could they have saw you? i myself notice i can get away with very little movement in the early parts of the season more so in the latter..but if i know birds are coming and another hunter is near..i would speak up and say something heck with the birds


im not trying to say you didnt anything wrong cuz i wasnt there i am only going by what i read and i understand sometimes its hard to put what we mean to say in words...

[gators8]

i have plenty of turkey exp. You just read it wrong.go back and read SLOWLY. I said far side of the field. and i had already moved into position to shoot.Post like yours is how fights get started questioning someones ability when you werent there or dont know them ,worrys me..
just wondering why you would pick my post to question someones safety when someone else admitted actually calling to someone he knew was another hunter???????????

anyway, the guy was a good 15o yds away.Huge field. I never called, and he didnt know i was there.He also set up under a tree that i saw a hen and jake roost in the evening before. the birds were actually down in a low spot of the field when they spooked and they couldnt see me at all.
I talked to him for 20 mins afterward, letting him know we had the next door property for deer season also.I asked him what spooked those birds and he said he did. he was just a goober with no clue.he said yah when i seen they werent coming to me i figured id go chase another bird. and didnt seem to care that he ruined my hunt.I just let it go and didnt say anything about the incident cause we just got the place and i dont want any trouble with the neighbors.

[raktrakr]

WORK!!!...:D