Jun
14
New Fall Turkey Hunter?
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Well ive been out with my dad before. He took me once when i was 12 and once when i was 13. I took a shot at one when i was 13 missed tho and it was also spring. This is different for me im on my own to this point. My dad said he will not help me and told me to figure it out. Well ive got the cammo ive got decoys ive got calls. I have 10 acres
now i have a problem. I dont know where they come from. My 10 acres go field hedgerow field headrow field. I dont know where they roost. I dont know anything. I cant really scout becuz ill desturb the land for deer hunting. For them reeeaaallllyyyy smart ass people ive got a 12 guage and bird shot. Wat can i do to increase my likely of getting a turkey?Comments
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Camouflage. Being completely still. Fighting purrs. and maybe a decoy but ehh, you could do without
the morning you enter the woods. use locator calls like crow or owl. get the birds talking before they fly down off the roost. once they start talkin start moving in on them. set up and start calling. and obviously be very quiet when moving on them.
i wouldnt be too worried about spooking the deer. deer are animals of habbit. they use the same trails day in and day out no matter what spooks them.
its hard to call a turkey in during fall cause there already w. groups u have to find a group break them up and then sit some were and then u can call them in
If you are hunting in the fall, then things are much different than the spring. There is little or no gobbling and the turkeys are in groups; usually hens and poults in one group, and toms and jakes in another group. The key to taking a turkey at this time is to key in on food sources. I find that they are easier to hunt in the morning right after they come off the roost.
There are two ways to hunt them in the fall. Once you have located a flock of turkeys, locate their food source. Set up between the food source and their roost. You will be able to ambush them on their way to their feeding area. The other way is to find a group of turkeys and scatter them. I am willing to bet someone will tell you to run into the flock shooting your gun, to scatter them. This is a bad idea from a safety standpoint, but the oldtimers used to do it. I would suggest just sneaking up on them and scattering the flock by running at them and yelling. Make sure you scare them good so they go in different directions. If you do this right before dark they will not be able to regroup and you can come back to that spot the next morning and call one of them in as they try to regroup.
There is another way, but it requires very advanced calling skills and some unorthodox measures. You can locate a flock and then call the whole flock to you. You have to sound like a flock of turkeys that are fighting, eating, and scratching around. Turkeys are very territorial and they will eventually get mad and come running in to chase you (the other turkey) away from their area. That is very cool when a whole flock of turkeys charges at you because they think you are eating their acorns. This is the time where you have to call aggressively, loudly, and generally make more noise than most hunters are comfortable with.
Don’t worry about bothering the deer. They will be over it by the time deer season rolls around.