I hunt in a local hunting club that uses fourweelers ALL the time. I've hunted within 75 yds. of our club roads and been on gobbling turkeys and they paid the fourwheelers no attention( knock on wood). maybe where I hunt the turkeys are use to the noise I don't know.

I have observed on numbers of occasions where i have heard turkeys gobbling and heard 4-whe3elers drive right on by the turks would shut up anywhere from 15min. to 1hr. last year i was riding mine to my hunting spot when i came around abend in the road and jumped a gobbler strutting in the middle of the road with 4 hens busted them up real good like fall hunting waited 10min. setup and called that gobbler right down the road and smoked him i know he could see my atv parked there but i normally park well away from where i am going to hunt and walk in

What? it should be known by now that deer spook less from an ATV than by a hunter on foot. This is especially true if you are hunting farmland. I use my ATV all the time for deer and turkeys and have never had a negative reaction.

Walk. you be happier for it, and the turks will be blythely unaware!

Now granted, somehow this doesn't spook deer all that much either but:

Last harvest I was repeatedly driving a 200+hp tractor @20mph within 60yards of a group of gobblers...never even flinched. Like I said, the deer didn't seem to mind either. Heck, I probably couldn've hit one easier than hunt one.


It can't be the sheer volume of the atv, they must be conditioned to know what sounds mean what human interaction.

Criggster ..He was'nt asking about hunting from a ATV...he was asking about scouting in the evening while their on Roost. Heck yeah....I've done it for year's in the evening, plus have come across them during the day. I know Slee and Annie Oakley used my ATV last season..He shot his bird probably less than 150 yd's from where he parked...Granted this is all on private land, and I would never recomend driving around on one during the day on public land where you'd probably be disturbing other hunter's..

Just posting what I observed, but you can bet that if the four-wheelers scared them that much during the day they would not belt out a gobble to let the person riding it in the evening know where they are!

We must have different bird's here then...I've never had a problem getting them to sound off while on the roost in the evening, and never had a problem the next morning setting up on them, right in the same area.