Cut & Run vs. Sit & Wait
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02-24-2003, 06:56 PM
#5
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: KY USA
Posts: 779
RE: Cut & Run vs. Sit & Wait
I do both, if the birds are hot & gobbling like mad I might run & gun till I hit a bird that comes in, maybe not - depends on howI feel and what I think is pushing it. On more slow days I tend to hunt areas I know turkeys like to hang out in & just wait & call a little & see what happens.
When I bow hunt I tend to be a lot more cautious and do a more slow & strategic style of hunting. I tend to focus on roost areas & then try to get between them & where the turkeys are feeding or struting. With this method a little calling goes a long way. you can hunt out of blinds or treestands, it' s a lot like deer hunting but it does work!
honestly I think it is more on my mood than the turkeys! lol
you know in the afternoon sometimes I just feel like I just have to get a gobbler to sound off so I just take off & run & gun. I think birds are more used to hunting & have changed some but also I think turkey numbers are so high in most areas the competition for hens isn' t that high so they really have no need to answer calls so much.
When I bow hunt I tend to be a lot more cautious and do a more slow & strategic style of hunting. I tend to focus on roost areas & then try to get between them & where the turkeys are feeding or struting. With this method a little calling goes a long way. you can hunt out of blinds or treestands, it' s a lot like deer hunting but it does work!
honestly I think it is more on my mood than the turkeys! lol
you know in the afternoon sometimes I just feel like I just have to get a gobbler to sound off so I just take off & run & gun. I think birds are more used to hunting & have changed some but also I think turkey numbers are so high in most areas the competition for hens isn' t that high so they really have no need to answer calls so much. 
02-24-2003, 08:31 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Russellville AR USA
Posts: 410
RE: Cut & Run vs. Sit & Wait
well, I run and gun as well as sit and wait.. I like to run and gun more, but all three of my turks have been killed by me being patient!!! my AR bird took me a week and a half to kill last spring!! he always had hens, so i studied him and every day i was in the wrong spot.. Came real close twice, and finally after a week and a half, my studying paid off!!
02-24-2003, 08:42 PM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: lower se arkansas
Posts: 51
RE: Cut & Run vs. Sit & Wait
hopefully i will have 6-8 birds located by opening day.if nothing gobbles i will hit all spots before going in woods. if nothing gobbles at all, i will go in where i' ve located them before and do the sit, call a little, and wait. i' ve had several come in like this never saying a word
02-24-2003, 08:46 PM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 9,085
RE: Cut & Run vs. Sit & Wait
we (me and my dad) usually cut and run alot more....hes impatient and if he thinks a bird is loosing intrest we are after another one...but i cant count how many times we come through the same area to see/hear the same turkey that probally had hens and lost them and came looking for us....or they just shut up and take a few minutes longer....and cant count how many times we stood up thinking he left to be busted because he went silent.....i hate silent birds!!!! both you can be very succsesful though...cut and run works for my dad....i think when i hunt alone im going to sit there...maybe doze off...when they come and cant see the hen they always seem to blow out a shocking gobble looking for that hen he knows he heard...then i wake up and take him because normally from what ive seen they come within 20 yds of where we were sitting....