SECRETS FOR LAST-MINUTE GOBBLERS WITH MARK DRURY
What to Do When You Miss
 EDITOR'S
NOTE: This week Mark Drury, award-winning turkey caller,
the creator of MAD Calls, avid hunter and outdoorsman
and co-owner and developer of Drury Outdoor Videos,
will teach you the secrets for hunting last-minute gobblers.
Hopefully this season you won't lose your job, your
wife or your sanity when you hunt turkeys.
 Missing
a gobbler, or spooking a gobbler can really ruin your
day of turkey hunting. If you spook a bird or shoot
at him and miss, you completely change the turkey's
mood. He's on the way to meet you with love on his mind.
Then just about the time he's arrived at the spot where
he's planned to rendezvous with you, whatever's spooked
him has rid him of the idea of making love and created
a desire to get out of the area. Hopefully you have
the luxury of having another turkey located to go to
and attempt to call while that spooked bird settles
down. When I don't have to hunt the same bird after
spooking him, then I won't hunt him for at least  two
days. Many times, however, you can spook a bird, and
he'll continue to gobble. If he stays right in that
general area, you may have a chance to take him. So,
if that turkey continues to gobble after I spook him,
I'll get up and try to get in front of the direction
he's going, change calls and attempt to call him in
once more.
When I say start calling the birds, I'll start off
with calls other than turkey calls. I'll scratch in
the leaves like a turkey, use a turkey wing and beat
the air and the ground like a turkey flapping its wings
when it stretches and use some spitting and drumming
like a gobbler trying to  impress
a bunch of hens. I add those extra little sounds not
only when I'm trying to get a spooked gobbler in close
enough to take, but even if I haven't spooked a gobbler,
and I'm in a hurry to get that turkey in so I can take
him and leave the woods, I believe that making those
extra sounds turkeys make helps your calling to sound
more realistic and often will bring the bird in faster,
especially when you're on a short deadline.
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