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Grandma said...Always keep a gun close at hand, you just never know when you might run across some varmint that needs killing...
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Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Not an authority but I say yes . Had one a few years back that would gobble his head off . Would not come closer than 75-80 yards . He expected the hens to come to him . I have 2 different buddies that are a lot better callers than me that I carried to see if we could kill him . They both said he was too smart/call shy . His mistake was he pitched out one morning off the side of the Mtn and landed in my decoys .
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While I am skeptical of giving individual birds "characteristics" or anthropomorphize them, I would say absolutely yes. You call one a few times and mess him up spook and/or shoot at him and he will be as skeptical as me 
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While I am skeptical of giving individual birds "characteristics" or anthropomorphize them, I would say absolutely yes. You call one a few times and mess him up spook and/or shoot at him and he will be as skeptical as me Or call them up just to film don't work out good either
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I will say yes, but it depends entirely on your definition of call shy. All of them are if it's overdone, but maybe none are if everything is right. I used to say that I had never scared one with a cluck on the trumpet, and then I found one that shut up and left after a cluck. He had been harassed so much that he couldn't tolerate anything but a hen who would come to him quietly.
Good luck with your project.
I had one this season shut down for twenty minutes after using some content stuff that’s worked plenty of times over the years.
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yes, usually man made...
I hunted one that would run from a real hen yelping. He had been spooked and or shot at several times. I set up ahead of him on the edge of a soy bean field. At 30 yards I silently told him I would let him live IF he broke into a strut when I yelped. At the yelp he spun and ran away...but not fast enough. I let the Ithica 10ga eat. [quote=BhamFred]yes, usually man made... The exact evidence that proves an Eastern can put two and two together.
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Thanks for the replies. By the way, you were all correct. That’s why y’all kill so many gobblers over in Bama!
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Yes
But I think a lot of birds are deemed “call shy” simply because they are not in the right mood. An aggressive setup will kill those birds a good portion of the time.
I can only recall a handful that were truly averse to calling. One was in an easily accessed portion of public. He would tree hop around, waiting for hens to come within sight. Hunted him a few times and it was always the same. Whether you called to him or not. Eventually he would fly up the mountain from the bottom, if a hen didn’t show.
Another three always hung out together on some private. I dusted one opening day. The other two would gobble like hell the rest of the season, normally by themselves. Any time I called, they would cut me off, then change course and gobble going away. Circle around in front of them, cluck a couple of times, they’d cut me off right on top of me, then gobble a few minutes later 300yds back the way they came. They repeated this probably 6 mornings before I killed one of them.
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Yes. I believe that one can be call shy on most days, but I also believe there are one or two days of the season when any turkey can be called up and killed, or in some cases, missed. LOL. And I think missing one that is already skeptical creates something that you don't want to waste too much time on in the future.
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Yes, I had one several years ago in Bibb co that would be gobbling his head off at 2 or 3 oclock while you were unlocking the gate in the afternoon. 1 cluck, he would shut up and never say another word.
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Yes
Absolutely enough situations been mentioned but I’ve hade several that ran or hid from the sound. Had one bird I was warned not to do anything but cluck. Everyone at the club had messed with him but I took a young kid in hopes of getting him. He cut me off every time I clucked. So I increased the clucks over an hour and he seemed to be getting really hot and kinda heading our way. I did a light cackle with some mixed in clucks and that was it. We sat there another hour and he never gobbled again.
Had many that’d gobble but go the other way. Takes two to kill them.
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Yes, but I would call it more of a conditioned response to bad experiences that happened around the calling such as spooking them/gunshots/etc
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Yes. Overwhelming due to men making way too much damn loud racket at em.
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