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Old 02-03-2008 | 07:15 PM
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adn if you know what your doing running and gunning, you wont bump any more than you do sitting.
What!??!!??

So you are saying that you will spoke more turkey's sitting still than walking and calling in a turkey rich area? You are dreaming dude.

Fact of the matter is that half the birds hunters bump, they will never know they bumped at all.

I had to learn this the hard way, just like most hunters do and will. There are always times that you will have to move, and let that situation dictate. What I find amazing is hunters who only run and gun and swear its the only way to kill birds. Ain't so. If a gobbler responds to your calls, then there is in my experience about a 50/50 chance that at some point in the day that bird will come by to try and find that hen. I learned that by going back to where I had hunted in the morning after "running and gunning" my way to another spot. I would come back by about 11 am and find fresh tracks and drag marks where I had hunted. When I learned to sit my self where I knew the turkeys had been frequenting... I started killing turkeys on a regular basis. Using this methodology I have taken 31 birds in the last 8 springs in 9 different states and called in another 19 that have been taken by other hunters. It is easy to kill turkeys on a piece of property you know very well, but being able to go into a new spot, or a spot you have traveled across country to hunt and succeed twice in four days is based on being patient and confident. Not by bumbling through the woods calling every five minutes until finding a dumb two year old bird that would come in to a fart in a beer can.
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