Stalking Turkey

[BrushWolf]

Stalking turkeys can be tough. With the right terrain it can be possible to get close. Don't overlook calling once in awhile. A few times mostly in the fall with dry leaves and noisy  conditions I have snuck right up to them. They just think your part of the group.

[die_dunkelheit]

Listen to this...
A good friend's mother is terrified of birds, like she freezes and starts crying frantically when she's in the car and a turkey is on the driveway (they have a long driveway). She lives pretty far out of town and there are some roaming flocks that semi-regularly cross her property, which is like the end of the world to her.    :rolleyes:  

The upside is that she actually got a pest removal permit to allow her, her son, and... me... to take them. The negative is that we can't harvest them, it's only for removal, shoot and bury style. I'm not too keen on just thinning the turkeys to appease her fear, so I only shoot them when they really won't leave with a scare. It does however give me opportunity to practice sneaking up on turkeys, whether that be to scare or shoot them. Yes it is absolutely possible to stalk up on a wild turkey.

I do keep the primaries and the better secondaries for fletching though... Asked the game warden who issued the permit about that one directly.

[jwhitetail]

I think it really depends on the turkey's you are hunting... and the terrain.

Nervous birds would be a real trick - every head in the flock is on a swivel.  

I have stalked and got into bow range several times, but on birds out west where they haven't been pressured.

JW