Got a question here. How close do you set up on roosted birds in the morning? Chris?

Well, it depends on can I get into that roost? Can I get in close to the roost without them seeing me?

And then with, it all depends on the terrain. Most of the time I'm trying to get within about 100 yards or so of that roost, if I can get in close and not be seen.

I know some people will set their blind and decoys right smack dab where the birds can literally sit up on the roost and look at the decoy spread.

I know I've done that down in Mexico with you on ghouls. I usually will try to set up where maybe they can't quite see me from the roost,

but as soon as they touch down on the field or wherever they're going to fly out, that's when they can see the decoys and I want to be as close as I possibly can.

Take that location if that makes sense.

Yeah, for sure. I mean, your reasoning for them not being able to see you off the limb is you you want to be able to call to him.

You want to be able to kind of create that situation of who's over there? Who, you know, what are they doing over there?

I can't quite see him, which makes them come towards you in your direction. That's what you're pushing for there.

A lot of times when I'll set up in view of them, it will be with the strutter decoy trying to elicit that, you know, a goblers moved into your area and the goblers going to fly down and or the hens make fly right to that goblers.

I've also had jakes and hens set up where I've set those up and a gobler just sees that Jake down there and they just, you know, they can't handle it.

I would say birds that are less pressured, you can get away with more of that and it's you can be a little fancier and a little cuter.

If you've got birds that are, you know, very well seasoned, I would probably go with Chris's approach where they can't see your decoy spread.

And they, you know, because in essence, they could just sit up on the limb because they see the turkey, the hen decoys, they see a Jake decoy, you know, they see a whole flock of turkey decoys, whatever it may be.

And they're like, I've played this game a lot and I've heard a lot of different hunters, you know, they don't think necessarily like that, but they know and they're like, those birds, if they want to come to me, they're going to come over here.

And if not, if they are over there, well, how come they're not moving? How can you know, I'm sure birds sit there and look at the decoys and go, ah, something's not right with that.

And so that's where the strategy of, you know, being just out of sight comes in. Chris, that I played recently on Facebook.

I played the video of a couple years ago, you were guiding for me down in Mexico for the ghouls and you had two archers in the blind and the bird comes in and the full strutter gets shot and then you move and you had some bow issues.

And then Jonathan, you're like, all right, Jonathan, you're up and head shoots that one bird and literally just shoots his head off that, I mean, that thing was, that was such an awesome video.

Yeah, I do. I feel bad for the first hotter. He was, he just got so flustered, but yeah, I feel like it worked. And that was a, that where we were pretty darn close to the roots of the birds.

We were set actually in a spot where the, again, the birds could not physically see us, but they, we were just out of sight.

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