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Old 11-17-2010 | 06:41 PM
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BravoKilo
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New to turkey hunting -- this past spring was my first time out -- but my word of advice is find their strut zones. Spent all day in and out of the woods with no luck. Found a strut zone and set up a decoy early the next morning. Called in a hen who proceeded to call in 3 of her friends and not more than 20 minutes later we had a tom fly in. Sure, everything came together perfectly from our positioning to where the hens were set up to which direction the tom came in (basically walked directly in front of me ~30 yards out), but knowing when/where they strut was a huge help.

What is the area like that you're hunting? Mine was in an area of northern Michigan that was nothing but woods for miles -- our strut zone ended up being a 40 yard clearing with power lines that ran for miles.... placed the decoy under the power lines and set up camp just inside the woods. The woods provided great cover for us and had a wide open shot of anything in the clearing.
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