The Bad Bird Bible Chapter 2, Verse 1- Dave Streb

"One time I hunted turkeys in Alabama with Joe Drake, a world turkey-calling champion from Georgia," Dave Streb of Orchard Park, New York, national sales manager for Quaker Boy Calls and longtime, avid turkey hunter, recalled. "When we got out of our vehicle before first light, Joe owl hooted. A turkey gobbled. When Joe told me that the gobbler was all mine, I thought to myself that Joe and probably everyone in three counties had worked this turkey. I decided I'd have to use a different strategy to take that tom.

"I tried to get as close as I could to this turkey that was gobbling from a little nearby knoll. I got down on my hands and knees to crawl in close to the bird, since we were on private land. But in the process of trying to sneak up on the turkey, I flushed a flock of hens.

"As the tom gobbled to the wing beats of the hens flying off, I took a Quaker Boy Easy Yelper pushbutton call out of my pocket and yelped softly. Then the turkey gobbled to the Easy Yelper. In only a few minutes, he came in, and I took him. When I got back to the car and met Joe, he couldn't believe I'd killed the turkey he'd been hunting. I never told Joe that I flushed the hens.

"I took that gobbler because this bad bird was accustomed to hearing the hens fly down and then flying to them and staying with them all day. When I accidentally flushed the hens off the roost, the gobbler just thought they were flying down. So when he heard a hen calling, he flew down and came to the call.

"Often when you're hunting a gobbler that stays with hens all day, you can take that gobbler by flushing the flock either early in the morning or late at night and get in between the gobbler and his hens."

To learn more about hunting turkeys, go to Night Hawk's homepage and click on hunting books.

For more information about Quaker Boy's calls and turkey-hunting accessories, go to www.quakerboycalls.com.

TOMORROW: THE BAD BIRD BIBLE CHAPTER 2, VERSE 2- DAVE STREB

Check back each day this week for more about The Bad Bird Bible ...

Day 1 -The Bad Bird Bible Chapter 1, Verse 1- Joe Drake
Day 2 -The Bad Bird Bible Chapter 1, Verse 2- Joe Drake
Day 3 -The Bad Bird Bible Chapter 2, Verse 1- Dave Streb
Day 4 -The Bad Bird Bible Chapter 2, Verse 2- Dave Streb
Day 5 -The Bad Bird Bible Chapter 3, Verse 1- Brad Harris

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