new to turkey hunting.

[#1huntinfool]

I'm totaly new to turkey huntin, I've hunted nearly everything else cept these,

i dont know the first three things to it except that you are suppossed to wear camo and that you are suppossed to sit still and call,

but whats good calling techniques? whats a good way to locate turkeys? any tips or advise would be great! I'm thinking about doing the archery 23 spring hunt, any good place to start?

[Big Browns]

Feel free to give me a call and I will give you some Turkey hunting pointers.

 

Adam

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[brian390]

When I turkey hunt and one is coming in I just find a pine tree that is as wide as my outline and sit in front of it. Just sit facing a little right of the direction that he is coming in because your gun will naturally point left of the direction of your body. I just use a box call when hunting but if you do that you got to have your hands free of it and the gun pointed in his direction before he comes in sight or he'll see you move. So if you can use a mouth call it will free your hands from a call and you won't risk the movement of putting down the call and getting the gun up.

 

There are lots of ways of locating turkeys and everyone seems to do it a little different. About within I guess 30 minutes before the sun comes up some people use an owl call. During the day when the crows are calling some people use crow calls. During the day when I'm walking around I just use a hen box call and it works fine for me. Some people also use coyote and hawk calls.

 

When I call I do about 8 to 10 yelps on my box call at a time. If it's windy cover more country and call loud.

 

I've never really archery hunted turkeys in the spring but it seems like calling from a pop up blind with a decoy would work but I'm not certain.

 

Also Jay Scott just posted a podcast right next to your post called, seven part series of western turkey hunting. It probably has some tips that might help you out.