How long does it take?
 

With this being my first year to hunt turkey, just wondered how long it took you guys to get your first turkey? Did you learn on your own, or did someone show you the ropes?

Knock'em Stiff

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It took me until the second day of my third season. A few years back I read an article about it taking the average spring hunter five years to get a bird. As populations in areas have grown though I am sure that statistic isn't totally accurate any more.

Ryan Tucker

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It took me 15 minutes in a 20 minute hunt ! then I self taught my self after that !...BT

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I hunted one day of the season my first year to no avail,but watching and listening to Ben Rogers Lee and Denny Gulvas helped in becoming much better prepared my second season.In the first 3 days of that second season I killed a jake my first day,called in another for my huntin partner,and killed my first longbeard the third day.I'll never forget that first hunt though.We didn't have a clue as to what in the heck we were doin.All we had was an old Olt double sided box call and a little bit of information as how to use it off a record that we listened to off the turntable.All the video's and most of the major manufacturers we have now weren't around till later.After I managed to harvest that first longbeard I've spent many mornings in the turkey woods learning how to hunt this awesome bird.Even after 25 years of chasin turks every mornin is a new experience and a different bird and you just do the best you can to apply what you've learned from the past to get ole tom turkey to pay you a visit.What a great sport we have in huntin turks!!<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Took me my 3rd year to get my first bird.I'm self taught from books,videos,and from my many mistakes and some things that I did right in the field.Nothing beats hands on experience!

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Second day of my first season(10 yrs old), then I went 7 years until my next one.

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It was a long hard wait for me ! Lets see I bought a Butskis box call in February along with a Old Dick Kirby video. I watched and practiced calling all winter.May 1 rolled around and as had been suggested I scouted allot previously, so i knew where there were some birds.

Went out opening morning just a tad late due to sleeping in. Got outa my truck hit the call and had three toms answer. Less than thirty minutes later I was toting my first gobbler outa the woods on my first day of turkey hunting.To date that was the biggest Tom Ive taken in 18 seasons.

I found out after that though it wasnt as easy as it first appeared!There was a good dose of luck involved in that hunt. However I had done allot of things to make my success easier the biggest being, SCOUTING.

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My first year turkey hunting I went with a friend who had hunted them before,shot one about an hour into the hunt.Since then I have hunted by myself or with my family.The great thing about turkey hunting is that you learn something everytime you go to the woods.

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I like bosstom killed one in about twenty minutes of my first hunt and then every hunt since has been a big challenge. I guess I came across the right bird at the right time.