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Author Topic: Run and bow for Turkey  (Read 255 times)

Offline xia_emperor

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Run and bow for Turkey
« on: April 11, 2008, 06:11:00 PM »
Has any one done this with a Double Bull blind? how did it go? any hints or tips?  :campfire:
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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #1 on: April 11, 2008, 06:21:00 PM »
Here's what my previous week looked like at different times of day from the DB Matrix 360:

   
   
   
   
   
   
   

0 turkeys dead, and 2 BIG hogs winded me. I also brought the wrong limbs for the arrows I brought! 57# instead of 50#! I was sitting in the blind with a sore neck and sore butt, trying to decide whether the shoot through netting was necessary,and whether or not I needed a back-supporting chair (I was using a stool) and these 2 hogs had snuck up on me, smelled me and I saw them before they vanished.
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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #2 on: April 11, 2008, 06:23:00 PM »
So I took a few more:
   
   
   
   

and once I switched ranches midweek, and equipment:


I killed two BIG toms. Go figure.....
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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #3 on: April 11, 2008, 06:23:00 PM »
I usually only use my Double Bull blind only when I'm hunting an area where I want to set up and sit for a time.  If I'm on the run I tend to hunt with a piece of camo material and a pair of clippers to make a quick makeshift blind.

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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #4 on: April 11, 2008, 06:46:00 PM »
“instinctive archery” is more like playing the violin. Without practice you may remember the mechanics, but you will not be a virtuoso.

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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #5 on: April 11, 2008, 09:31:00 PM »
I'm always on the move when it comes to turkey hunting.

Call.....Walk.....Call.....Walk.....travel light!!!!!   :archer:
I only shoot WOOD arrows... My kid makes them, fast as I can break them!

There is a fine line between Hunting, & Sitting there looking Stupid...

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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2008, 09:50:00 PM »
I'm with woodchucker. It is a prerequisite for my annual elk pilgrimage so I run,call on the 60 mile network  of hiking trails at Land Between the Lakes Nat'l. Rec area. I considered buying a 3 legged stool with carrying strap to carry but the foilage is finally coming out so I'll continue to go light,just a fanny pack. I use the yelper(call from BDU thigh pocket),
a few mouth diaphrams--don't carry decoys,etc.... good exercise anyway.....sure is an exciting way to hunt the birds..I sit enough during the Fall deer hunting.....

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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #7 on: April 12, 2008, 04:01:00 PM »
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and once I switched ranches midweek, and equipment:


I killed two BIG toms. Go figure.....
 
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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #8 on: April 12, 2008, 06:14:00 PM »
Double bull used to (probably still do, I don't know) sell a pack that was made to carry the blind so you could run and gun turks with it. Being short, and somewhat lazy about carrying heavy things on my back, I never tried it. I use my DB to set up a static hunt, usually along a travel route from the roost tree to the strutting zone or something like that. If I run and gun I try to find natural cover. I have an older blind that I plan to cut up and use the fabric for a portable screen.
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Re: Run and bow for Turkey
« Reply #9 on: April 12, 2008, 06:41:00 PM »
My friend Jim Reynolds (Thunderstick Bows) told me about using an old garage sale golf bag cart to bunge a blind and decoys to and pull around the woods. I picked one up recently for $10 and I can't wait to use give it a try!
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