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re: Turkey Hunting
Posted on 1/23/22 at 8:07 pm to Capt ST
Posted on 1/23/22 at 8:07 pm to Capt ST
Hunting turkey on public land , today, there is an 80% chance that another guy will come from another direction, if he hears the bird you are working, and will commence to pouring all that TV over calling on. Neither of yall will get it.
Especially with the so called run gun stuff. They roam and call, and eventually end up on top of a hunter who came in from a diff direction and was quietly yelping sparingly , with a tom coming. Again, no one wins.
Its tough. Back in the early days, TV did not popularize turkey hunting, and only a small gang hunted them. Most honored each other, seeing the other guys truck parked, common sense said leave that guy alone for that morning, go on down the road some. Not today.
It's just a blind luck as to whether you can get one on one, with no interference.
Especially with the so called run gun stuff. They roam and call, and eventually end up on top of a hunter who came in from a diff direction and was quietly yelping sparingly , with a tom coming. Again, no one wins.
Its tough. Back in the early days, TV did not popularize turkey hunting, and only a small gang hunted them. Most honored each other, seeing the other guys truck parked, common sense said leave that guy alone for that morning, go on down the road some. Not today.
It's just a blind luck as to whether you can get one on one, with no interference.
This post was edited on 1/23/22 at 8:48 pm
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Posted on 1/23/22 at 8:17 pm to EF Hutton
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Back in the early days, TV did not popularize turkey hunting, and only a small gang hunted them
To be fair, the number of birds back then were much, much smaller (at least they were up here).
None of my friends hunted them. Wasn’t any need.
Now they’re just about everywhere
Posted on 1/23/22 at 9:51 pm to EF Hutton
I tried some incredible WMAs in Mississippi. Once i literally drove up to a dozen tom’s going off.
Almost every hunt was ruined by somebody and i hunt on wednesdays
Almost every hunt was ruined by somebody and i hunt on wednesdays
Posted on 2/2/22 at 5:31 pm to EF Hutton
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Hunting turkey on public land , today, there is an 80% chance that another guy will come from another direction
99% of statistics are made up.
If you plan to hunt next to the truck, or drive around in the truck and call and hunt this is absolutely true. But there's plenty of public land out there that's possible to not routinely run into people. I hunt almost exclusively public land about 25 hunts a year and I have only 1-2 issues a year at most. Last year I walked in on 2 people, the first guy the bird was way off and he was sitting on a decoy and not calling, so I just so happened to walk up on him. The 2nd one the guys again were not calling and the bird was on the roost. Both times I backed off. I don't remember anyone screwing up a hunt on me last year.
The key though is to get out of the truck and get away from the roads on public land.
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