First off someone wrote that turkey hunting's 90% luck 10% skill. Thats completely backwards turkey hunters will tell you so.
There's no luck in being where the gobbler wants to go. So scouting a different find out where he wants to go after fly down.Know where your hens want to go. Don't try to make him go where you want.
If your in the direction the wants to go. Your turkey hunting and calling just went from fair to great. My friends think I'm a great turkey hunter and caller. I don't tell them no different.
If your going to bow hunt you have to play by a complety set of rules. This is my I only bow hunt them. Patince is where it's at. When you think he's gone HE'S NOT give him another 1/2 hour Be torally quit. I can't tell you the # of times when I'D COME BACK PAST WHERE I'D CALLED FROM EARLYER. AND I'D SPOOK A GOBBLER. It happen so much that I always call again before I get back to that spot. Tosee ig I get A GOBBLE. I taken quite a few by doing just that.
I also use a decoy but not just to draw him in. But for a distraction for drawing. I also like to set up when I can where there's big trees rocks. On the back side of a hill where the gobblers aready in bow range whe he tops the hill. I don't use decoys in the feilds to often where I'm at unless I know no one else has hunted there for a while. Everyone dose decoys in fields and most gobbler have been spooked so decoys here spook most gobblers. But I DO USE THEM IN THE WOODS. Where gobblers don't see them untill there close. So I call the gobbler to me and when he see's the decoy. I shut up let him gobble at the decoy. Then do some purring maybe alittle leaf noise. Then let the decoy do the calling. This way I uselly don't have any hang ups.
I also like to set up on logging roads where the gobbler has to go past me to the decoy. I also like to use bottle necks,sattles, gate opening between fields just like deer hunting. I also like decoying at water holes (early) nesting areas (late morning) later morning struting and dusting areas. This is where scouting really comes into play.
Know want and where hens are going to go after fly down.
I could go no and on. Every gobbler (hunts) are different every day. I love calling anything this and along with being different everyday is why I love turkey hunting.
One other thing I was taught by my grandad who was a real gobbler hunter he had over 3oo gobblers to vhis creit when the died at 94 and killed 2 gobblers the spring before his death.
He taught me you have to be mobile to reall tirkey hunt. He taught to use a blind,rifle,ambushing of any kind was not tukey hunting. He did'nt even have camo untill 1961.I made a ghillie in 82 and have used it on every turkey and deer hunts ever sence.
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