Jeff - Thanks for starting this thread, I'm going out for the first time this season and I've picked up a lot of info from this. I hope when it's said and done you do as well.

That's all you had to say.



Have a good day, Jeff. Good luck this spring.

2 decoys
Double Bull Matrix 360
Bow
Backpack

Pretty much exactly as you.

I know what is in every pocket of my backpack, and have my quiver and pot calls hanging off of it. I can set my blind up in 7 sec, as advertised. And know my land. Running and Gunning w/ bow is not a hard tactic, at all.

I'm also wondering how this jives with your experiences bowhunting birds from last year and previous years going after them with the bow......since you said you passed on jakes.

Unless of course.....you hunt them the same way (be that stationary or mobile).

I called, last year, in a style I would consider "aggressive". I had multiple, oldertoms in sight on several occasions.....but got none of them to commit into a position that afforded me a shot. I went looking for a reason "why".

Good luck to you as well, Dan.

My buddy and me both shot birds, he shot a mature Gobbler, I shot a Jake. We called the exact same way, but a month a part. In MI the biggest birds tend to be shot later in the season. Maybe time of year has something to do with it.


I used a Bow

Aggressive =........(jake)



LOL(just kidding)

No doubt about it, Germ. That is why it is so hard to pick what 5 day season to put in for in MN, it is hit-or-miss. You're going to hunt "henned" birds, or birds that are ready and willing. It has more to do with breeding then calling IMO

You guys went 12 pages in an afternoon!

I think the turkeys and the room in which you have to operate in, plays a big part in whether to take a passive or aggressive approach.

I know that I now feel aggresive after reading all past 12 pages.[:@]

I'm gonna go kick something. REAL HARD!

So what call would bring you in? You're not a mature turkey, but you're no Jake either