Yep. I can’t tell you where I killed every turkey, but I can tell you where everyone one I missed was.
Still learning here. Do those become spots you'd hunt again? I think I've heard that both strut zone and roost will continue use year after year unless they're disrupted too bad.Yep. I can’t tell you where I killed every turkey, but I can tell you where everyone one I missed was.
Matt Dale just posted a video on this topic. He spooked a couple of Tom’s from a spot, stayed patient and ended up killing one a couple hours later not far from where he spooked them. Of course he’s killed a crap ton of turkeys, but it is possible.Do birds ever come back in, like a deer will sometimes?
had 2 Jake's. Total little birds but had one at probably 10 and one at about 15. I got a half 3/4 drawn... had my finger over the arrow and popped it off the string. The busted me trying to let down
Getting closer but that clock is a ticking! Very exciting!!
I like his stuff been watching him for a couple of years. Solid advice. The best is how he waits for a gobbler then calls. He doesn’t typically just call and hope a gobbler responds. He knows there are turkeys in the area from scouting and trail cams and so he will set up and when he hears a gobble then he will call. Will wait to hear the next gobble then he calls. I have utilized this technique and have believe it works very well compared to just calling and hoping.Matt Dale just posted a video on this topic. He spooked a couple of Tom’s from a spot, stayed patient and ended up killing one a couple hours later not far from where he spooked them. Of course he’s killed a crap ton of turkeys, but it is possible.
I call that technique “letting the bird kill himself”I like his stuff been watching him for a couple of years. Solid advice. The best is how he waits for a gobbler then calls. He doesn’t typically just call and hope a gobbler responds. He knows there are turkeys in the area from scouting and trail cams and so he will set up and when he hears a gobble then he will call. Will wait to hear the next gobble then he calls. I have utilized this technique and have believe it works very well compared to just calling and hoping.
It’s a great way to mange for decent to excellent Turkey hunting on small tracts of private ensconced by pressured private and public. Everyone around our farm is running and gunning and I just bowhunt them from a blind and “deer hunt” for turkeys until they want to respond to my calling or react to my decoys. We keep the turkeys perceiving that there is nobody on our tract that is hunting them. In other words we try to let them do their normal daily routines without disrupting them by closing in and running and gunning. I do believe it helps somewhat.I call that technique “letting the bird kill himself”
ExactlyI set up a ground blind in pretty much the same spot every year for bowhunting turkeys. Just seems to be a spot where they want to be. Since I started using the spot about 5 years ago, I've shot one there every year and for the most part so has my buddy.
The spot is on a small hill at the end of a treeline that splits 2 fields they strut in. They can see the decoys from almost every direction except from behind the blind and usually end up in one of those fields during the morning. I don't always have to call them either. Sometimes they see they decoys and run into the set up
I did end up finding a new spot by just driving around in the early morning and listening to where they were gobbling.
Nice bird @Empostarr!!! Way to go @Micneador! See, your "whiff" the other day is long into ancient history now right? Congrats.