Turkey hunting is hard work

[Friend]

Osage61
First was natural blinds using camo materials, then a DB. I have had three two-man DB's. The latest is a matrix. I have not had the recurve version. Both the old T5 and Matrix have their own advantages. I had taken several birds out of the back of the T5. The Matrix is too low for me to shoot out of the back. Since hunting on pressured public land, the birds are extremely wary. The blind has to be very well hidden and the Matrix works well openings thru the brush. that. My whole blind is covered except for small openings to shoot. Even hunting fields my viewing distance is small.

[Osage61]

OK thanks for the info Friend. I'm going to my hunting site on private farms to build a couple of natural blinds but I was curious as to what you had used. Maybe the birds won't be too wary as they haven't been hunted or at least not hunted much on the properties where I go. On the one farm, no one has ever hunted it and the birds and the deer are driving the farmer nuts. The other farm has only one other permitted Turkey hunter.

[Osage61]

Got some interesting advice from a Turkey bowhunter the other day. Said he puts himself between his decoy and the roosting birds. Calls the Toms out, and they have to walk by him to get to the decoy. As they go by, they're in full strut and with the fan and feathers all going, the Tom can't see behind or doesn't look behind. The bowhunter, turns and makes his shot. Said the only camo he wears is a bug screen jacket, pants, and head cover. Turkey hunting started up again here in Ontario CAN in the mid to late 1980s and he has been using this method for many years. Any other ideas or thoughts?

[Friend]

Osage61 - There are times when then this strategy will work. Having numerous strategies ready at your disposal and knowing when and how to use them can pay big dividends. This set-up strategy could be even more effective if the you are positioned between the gobbler and the hens.