My time of posting is going to come to a slow down. As some of you know the season here WAY up north and No, not a part of Yankee land , we are the Canadia's and it is going to open up on Tuesday. Jalva and Scrapper are headed up today and we have some interesting things we are doing this season. I'm sure you will all find out later and its not all hunting.

What I would like to say before I slow down is I have learned a little thing or two over the years of Turkey hunting. As some of you may not understand and must be saying to yourself , "What Can a Canadian know about Turkey hunting" I have did a little of it and have spent years traveling. I have only hunted 15 different States and have got stuck on a few that I have went back to a great amount of times. I guide in the Southern Florida season and see the same advice there as well.

Most turkey hunters want to find a setup and one of the first things they want to do is CUT everything down around them so that they can see better. This works right into a turkey favor. What you need to know is the your gun will only shoot a small bullet type pattern for 8 yards untill the shot pattern opens. A small limb or stick that sticks up or hangs down at 5-6 yards or even out at 10 yards will not have any impact on your shot pattern unless you aim right at it and fire.

Do not cut down everything in front of you, only what may tie up your gun barrel incase you need to make a move. Some of this brush will help conceal you and make you blend right in a lot better. If you can setup and still see 60% around some of the stuff in front of you in the direction the birds may came, study your shooting lanes and use the hanging and cluttered stuff for your advantage. Have Patience and allow the bird to walk into a shooting lane that is in front of you. Remember if the bird can not see you and is not allarmed he is not going to leave anytime soon, He will walk into your sight or point of aim Re: shooting Lanes.

The eye sight of a gobbler is 10 times better then yours or mine. If you cut away stuff like this on a bird that is in the roost that you have set up on , then the roosted bird has now about 60 times better eye sight while he is in the tree. He will see this movement and decide well before flydown to walk off the other way.

When you get to a setup leave them little branches that our gun barrel don't touch and you will see a difference in how the gobbler will come closer with out noticing the Timber cutting that he has never seen before...BT