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Posted on 4/5/20 at 8:21 pm to TutHillTiger
If you have him pattered don’t go after him in the morning. Slip in in the afternoon . Get about a 100 to 150 yards of his roost trees set one decoy and yelp about every 30 minutes.
Old bird’s are hard to kill that’s why they are old. I have found they are easier to hunt in the evening
Old bird’s are hard to kill that’s why they are old. I have found they are easier to hunt in the evening
Posted on 4/6/20 at 11:04 pm to PSUMMERS
Thanks. I am going to try again Wednesday
Posted on 4/9/20 at 4:56 pm to TutHillTiger
Turkey 6 Me 0.
Man they were hot today, hell my truck thermometer said it was 90. Gobbling from 6:15 to almost 10 am. Hens were finally talking too. If I was just a better hunter. Of course my target bird wasn’t where he was supposed to be but I did at least see him.
I set up but didn’t put out decoys, and gobbling started 5 minutes later about 200 yards away. I was stuck with the dreaded Sophias choice of turkey hunting, do I stay put and try to get him here or try to close the distance. ( hard to do in swamp do the damn sticks and streams everywhere) I took the advice from one of you guys to stay put. I got him to 70 yards but he found a live hen so he didn’t come the rest of the way. Turkeys were blowing up all over.
Getting closer....I think
Man they were hot today, hell my truck thermometer said it was 90. Gobbling from 6:15 to almost 10 am. Hens were finally talking too. If I was just a better hunter. Of course my target bird wasn’t where he was supposed to be but I did at least see him.
I set up but didn’t put out decoys, and gobbling started 5 minutes later about 200 yards away. I was stuck with the dreaded Sophias choice of turkey hunting, do I stay put and try to get him here or try to close the distance. ( hard to do in swamp do the damn sticks and streams everywhere) I took the advice from one of you guys to stay put. I got him to 70 yards but he found a live hen so he didn’t come the rest of the way. Turkeys were blowing up all over.
Getting closer....I think
Posted on 4/19/20 at 2:18 pm to TutHillTiger
Turkey 8-0
I hate these damn things. The are just the animal version of the old high school **** tease, just instead of dressing like a slut and rubbing up against you, kissing on you etc, they just gobble
I hate these damn things. The are just the animal version of the old high school **** tease, just instead of dressing like a slut and rubbing up against you, kissing on you etc, they just gobble
Posted on 4/19/20 at 2:50 pm to TutHillTiger
He’s just doing turkey things. Don’t hate him for it.
I haven’t heard a gobble in a week, so I’m kinda jealous
I haven’t heard a gobble in a week, so I’m kinda jealous
Posted on 4/19/20 at 6:02 pm to TutHillTiger
In Georgia, we can use shotguns or muzzle loaders. You may want to extend your range with a scoped muzzleloader. If you do get one, don’t throw the legs/thigh meat away. I cooked a Jake’s legs in my electric pressure cooker with onions and Dales seasoning for 1 hour 45 minutes. Meat fell off the bones. Tasted like roast beef. Fantastic.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 10:33 am to TutHillTiger
If he is a Boss here is a tip.
Get a partner who can also call, bringing multiple calls and use them. Try to mimick multiple hens. If you get him interested and coming to you when he locks up hit him with a gobble tube. That will only work if he is the man.
Also if you hunt with a partner if a turkey locks up have one of you slip out the back away from Turkey one stay put. The one that slips out should drift away directly in line with the hunter and the turkey, yelping and purring as leave. The hunter that stays put shuts up he is the shooter.
Get a partner who can also call, bringing multiple calls and use them. Try to mimick multiple hens. If you get him interested and coming to you when he locks up hit him with a gobble tube. That will only work if he is the man.
Also if you hunt with a partner if a turkey locks up have one of you slip out the back away from Turkey one stay put. The one that slips out should drift away directly in line with the hunter and the turkey, yelping and purring as leave. The hunter that stays put shuts up he is the shooter.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 10:34 am to TutHillTiger
If your birds keep hanging up just too far, try this. Hunt with another person. Have the shooter set up 50 yards closer to the bird. Have the caller set up 50 yards further from the bird. If he hangs up 50 yards too far, the shooter can still be in kill range.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 6:37 pm to spudz
Beginner here. Just started to mess around with a box call. Or, as I like to call it, "turkey repellant".
The best turkey hunting land in the country is the property next to me. I will drive them your way.
The best turkey hunting land in the country is the property next to me. I will drive them your way.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 7:00 pm to SoFla Tideroller
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Beginner here. Just started to mess around with a box call. Or, as I like to call it, "turkey repellant". The best turkey hunting land in the country is the property next to me. I will drive them your way.
You are probably calling too loud. Box calls can be very loud which is good in certain situations, but start off slow and ease your way into louder yelps with it.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 7:55 pm to spudz
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ou are probably calling too loud. Box calls can be very loud which is good in certain situations, but start off slow and ease your way into louder yelps with it.
You can be a terrible caller and call a bunch of turkeys. It's more about setup (>70-80%) , timing, cadence, and knowing when to and when not to call. I killed a big ole pile of turkeys before I became proficient with a call. Really still wish I was better, but it gets the job done.
Posted on 4/20/20 at 8:14 pm to tenfoe
Yea you don’t have to be a great caller. I’ve killed birds without ever making a sound and just scratching leaves. I knew the birds were in the area and went to sit on some scratching I’d seen the day before. When I don’t hear one gobble on the roost, I go sit where there’s fresh sign and scratch leaves with a few soft purrs
Posted on 4/20/20 at 8:59 pm to spudz
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went to sit on some scratching I’d seen the day before. When I don’t hear one gobble on the roost, I go sit where there’s fresh sign and scratch leaves with a few soft purrs
That will kill a bunch of them
Posted on 4/24/20 at 10:51 pm to tenfoe
These damn things are from hell. I have brought in 4 experienced hunters with me this year so far. Turkeys 4, Ringers 0. I am beginning to wonder has anyone every actually killed a saint Stephens turkey?
I had them gobbling like crazy last three hunts.
Hunt 1, wouldn’t come to the road took off with hens, got busted in mid morning hunt as the bastard come in from behind on my blind side. (No vision in left eye), as I was taking break at my truck one took of across the road, he was strutting across the Russ from my damn truck. then as I was checking cameras busted one on field, (you can’t sneak up on them on most of our fields), I saw him fly in area of another field so I decided to check it out. I had to drive for cover as I hit the field, a turkey exploded right off it maybe 100-150 yards, then another, then another. They gobbled at anything and everything but would but come in field. They gobbled every minute or so for two hours. I just couldn’t see them. I managed to crawl in mud and set up a moving hen decoy no dice. One turkey cut me off 3 times in one call. He also double gobbled at a crow.
I tried everything from calling, scratching, going silent you name it. There was no way to sneak up on them. I know the area very well.
After serious soul searching and being really pissed I remembered this was area where I screwed with a monster tom all Fall. I actually saw him run off a fawn. He was super territorial. He is probably dead but I bet they are still scared to come into his turf. Can that be it. That was Tuesday.
I went today to a perfect spot, a ledge that lets me see hundreds of yards both ways in the creek bottom. Before I was fully set up with a single moving feeding hen, huge gobble 75-100 yards out max. I let him go a few times, do a tree yelp very faint, flap my hat, do some scratch’s and he explodes, he comes to 60 yards or so but it’s too dark to really see him. This going on for 45 minutes. I realize he is hung up, but can’t see why. Finally as it gets light enough to see I realize he pitched on other side of damn creek, which was about 6 inches wide until last night but it’s 3 feet wide now. As I planning this out, he panicked and flew off. I wait give him solid hour and half but nothing. However, 10 minutes after he left I call in a decent size bobcat, that must have sent him packing.
That was really it for today. Hunted from 5 am to 7 pm, very little activity, bumped one bird on a field that’s really it.
It’s always something, hawks, coyotes, bobcats, dogs, kids on four wheelers, being on the wrong side of the 6 million little creeks and branches, these bastards are ridiculous. They always gobble, they will not come.
Don’t believe me? Come try your luck
I had them gobbling like crazy last three hunts.
Hunt 1, wouldn’t come to the road took off with hens, got busted in mid morning hunt as the bastard come in from behind on my blind side. (No vision in left eye), as I was taking break at my truck one took of across the road, he was strutting across the Russ from my damn truck. then as I was checking cameras busted one on field, (you can’t sneak up on them on most of our fields), I saw him fly in area of another field so I decided to check it out. I had to drive for cover as I hit the field, a turkey exploded right off it maybe 100-150 yards, then another, then another. They gobbled at anything and everything but would but come in field. They gobbled every minute or so for two hours. I just couldn’t see them. I managed to crawl in mud and set up a moving hen decoy no dice. One turkey cut me off 3 times in one call. He also double gobbled at a crow.
I tried everything from calling, scratching, going silent you name it. There was no way to sneak up on them. I know the area very well.
After serious soul searching and being really pissed I remembered this was area where I screwed with a monster tom all Fall. I actually saw him run off a fawn. He was super territorial. He is probably dead but I bet they are still scared to come into his turf. Can that be it. That was Tuesday.
I went today to a perfect spot, a ledge that lets me see hundreds of yards both ways in the creek bottom. Before I was fully set up with a single moving feeding hen, huge gobble 75-100 yards out max. I let him go a few times, do a tree yelp very faint, flap my hat, do some scratch’s and he explodes, he comes to 60 yards or so but it’s too dark to really see him. This going on for 45 minutes. I realize he is hung up, but can’t see why. Finally as it gets light enough to see I realize he pitched on other side of damn creek, which was about 6 inches wide until last night but it’s 3 feet wide now. As I planning this out, he panicked and flew off. I wait give him solid hour and half but nothing. However, 10 minutes after he left I call in a decent size bobcat, that must have sent him packing.
That was really it for today. Hunted from 5 am to 7 pm, very little activity, bumped one bird on a field that’s really it.
It’s always something, hawks, coyotes, bobcats, dogs, kids on four wheelers, being on the wrong side of the 6 million little creeks and branches, these bastards are ridiculous. They always gobble, they will not come.
Don’t believe me? Come try your luck
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:38 am to TutHillTiger
My advice is leave your calls and fan in the truck and go to where he wants to be and slip to him when he gobbles if need be.
You are working against nature trying to call him to you, that works best with the youngsters, that ole boy wants his hens to come to him.
You are working against nature trying to call him to you, that works best with the youngsters, that ole boy wants his hens to come to him.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 6:08 am to TutHillTiger
Go buy a ground blind and set it up on one of those fields he frequents and wait him out
The more to chase him, the more educated he’s becoming.
Ground blind plus a ‘less is more’ approach is the way to kill him.
Not as excited as striking one up and calling him in, but it works
The more to chase him, the more educated he’s becoming.
Ground blind plus a ‘less is more’ approach is the way to kill him.
Not as excited as striking one up and calling him in, but it works
Posted on 4/25/20 at 7:28 am to fillmoregandt
Not a turkey hunting expert, but really, really good at side swiping them.
Go “deer” hunting buddy. Sit in a stand on a field. (Ground blind better bc it is in SHADE -trust me)
But do not call. Just wait.
Also- Check out the tungston shells, videos on YouTube with patten grouping at 75 yards is unreal.
You will not get the satisfaction you want, it’s cheating to some degree. Like catching a trophy bass in a Gil net. But you want to kill the bird? Do this and kill the bird in two days max.
Go “deer” hunting buddy. Sit in a stand on a field. (Ground blind better bc it is in SHADE -trust me)
But do not call. Just wait.
Also- Check out the tungston shells, videos on YouTube with patten grouping at 75 yards is unreal.
You will not get the satisfaction you want, it’s cheating to some degree. Like catching a trophy bass in a Gil net. But you want to kill the bird? Do this and kill the bird in two days max.
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:34 pm to cave canem
I am thinking same thing, even our average turkey has 8 inch beard. They are old and wise .
Posted on 4/25/20 at 5:40 pm to TutHillTiger
The bird I was counting on disappeared, ( I strongly suspect was poached) he was 30 pound plus beast, big enough to chase off small deer. I saw it.
The field I have blind set up in, is now covered by another hunter. (A big arse hawk) I can deal with the bear, coyotes, and all the dogs and bobcats, but once a hawk stakes out a place it’s done here. He did this to me for a week last year too. I had him on camera too.
The field I have blind set up in, is now covered by another hunter. (A big arse hawk) I can deal with the bear, coyotes, and all the dogs and bobcats, but once a hawk stakes out a place it’s done here. He did this to me for a week last year too. I had him on camera too.
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