Post your Spring turkey tip
03-16-2015, 12:45 PM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: North Central Illinois
Posts: 848
If you see another hunter sneaking up on you decoys, yell "DECOY!!" and don't move. On the same vein, set your decoys so you can see a long ways behind them (i.e., further than a shotgun can shoot). Always remember, you are wearing full camo and making noises like the thing that everyone out there is hunting (be extra careful with a gobbler call on public land -- I leave mine at home.
03-17-2015, 12:16 PM
#13
Fork Horn
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Turkey-Town Kansas
Posts: 344
Patience !
like many before me have said.... be patient!
When I first started turkey hunting, if I didn't see them fly down or I didn't hear any that were close within the first 30 minutes of sunrise... I'd be stomping back to the truck all pi$$ed off.
Then one day a TRUE hunter, an "old timer" set me straight and now I sit, and sit, and sit, and do my best to limit my calls, and my success rate is really great now!!
* Oh, and I rarely use a decoy.
BDB
like many before me have said.... be patient!
When I first started turkey hunting, if I didn't see them fly down or I didn't hear any that were close within the first 30 minutes of sunrise... I'd be stomping back to the truck all pi$$ed off.
Then one day a TRUE hunter, an "old timer" set me straight and now I sit, and sit, and sit, and do my best to limit my calls, and my success rate is really great now!!
* Oh, and I rarely use a decoy.
BDB
03-18-2015, 08:22 AM
#15
Typical Buck
Join Date: Nov 2011
Location: IN.
Posts: 530
Thats the way alot of public land hunters around here seem to be. Hard to find a parking spot before daylight , darn near the whole place to yourself by 9-10 o'clock
03-20-2015, 05:22 PM
#16
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: New York
Posts: 580
Be cautious when calling gobblers up in the tree,cant kill them until they hit the ground , an old tom is smart enough to wonder why there is a hen on the ground already .At leastyou have a 50/50 chance of him flying down in your direction if you dont call much or at all. Call to much and your %drops fast.
03-20-2015, 06:43 PM
#18
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2008
Location: Dover, Ohio.
Posts: 1,434
Quiet entry to your spot. I have busted birds off their roost in the dark in the past cause I made too much noise. I always liked the short cuts to my spot but I learned a little longer walk pays off.
03-20-2015, 08:03 PM
#19
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2007
Location:
Posts: 5,130
+1
Never set-up closer then 100 yards from their roost tree.
.........................Or you're already busted
