Well of course hunting them in the spring is the best time. I'm an avid turkey hunter myself. Last time I checked though turkeys shot in the fall tasted just as good! I will say this though. Taking a turkey out of a treestand while deer hunting is harder then any turkey I have called up in the spring and shot with my 12 gauge.

Darrall Dougherty

So Rob if you go out deer hunting and have a turkey tag you aren't turkey hunting as well? When are you all of a sudden turkey hunting? When you see some coming in your direction?...LOL

And yes they gobblethere heads offin the fall.

Darrall

MC....

Difference of opinion, here. I could kill 10 a year out of a treestand if it were legal. They walk by me almost every time I'm in the woods (maybe 8 out of 10). It's also legal to shoot hens in the fall, most places. In the Spring....that bird DEFINITELY knows "something" is in the woods with him. In the Fall.....he has NO IDEA. If your stand is brushed in at all......I can't see how it could be harder.

That may differ in areas Jeff, I don't know. Perhaps your birds are not wary in the fall because of no pressure. Drawing on birds here in PA almost is impossible. I'd bet 6 of 10 times you wouldn't get drawn. Not sure, I've only ever gotten drawn once in 5 tries over 25 years of bowhunting from a tree. Normally it's a slight movement and they are gone.

I agree Rob.

Jeff see if you can draw back on them.

Darrall

Not only was I able to draw on my hen and take her out, the other 7 or so hens had no clue what had happened. Probably could have taken another if I wanted.

I just got lucky that they came from behind me and I had the tree blocking my body and movements.

Its definitely not an easy task since you have so many eyes and hears not in your favor.

Guys.....just trust me when I tell you something. If I didn't think I could kill them...I wouldn't say I could. I've been tempted to take a smoke color phase bird for two years now. I won't do it....but she's tempted me several times. She has at least nine lives......but would be taxi'd if she were legal (no fall hunting....and no hens in my area can be taken).

I won't claim to know your woods and your situation. I can tell you ONLY of mine. If it were leagal to take them from a treestand in the Fall.....I'd kill several. It's not bragging. It's just the situation I have.

Case in point.

And when I say I see several from my stand.....80% of the time (when I'm deer hunting)...... my honey hole is one of two of their fall/winter roosting spots. The other is about 200 yds away. When I say "several"....I'm talking 30 or more at a time. Sometimes I see them morning and evening......going out and coming home.

I'm not speaking for anyone else. I'm telling you how it IS in my woods.

Got 1 from a wind fall-2 from a blind. Also yes its hard to draw on them from a stand but oh yea it can be done.I have done it just to see if I could and have made it and have got busted.I hunt them in the spring from the ground. I love calling turkeys. But I hate the things during deer season.

I agree too. I drew and shot one last fall while on stand and it is one of my most memorable kills with a bow. They are vary wary and EVERYTHING in the woods wants to eat them. Jeff, I honestly don't know how many deer I have killed with a bow. I have been successfully getting 1 to 2 to deer a year with my bows since I started bowhuntingat the age of 14-15. I am now 45. IA opened up a lot of tags over the last few years and I took 6 in one season off of a landowners land that wanted does thinned out. Itwas WAY easier in IA for me to kill a deer with a bow than a turkey with a bow. I have not checked out my new residence of CO for turkey yet. Too busy learning the elk and muley now.