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Post by meateater on Mar 26, 2024 8:18:57 GMT -5
First Gobbler I ever killed took all of 5 mins. Parked the truck, made a few clucks out comes a gobbler runs down a sandy hill right to me..like bee line. Barely had time to get my gun up then smoked em. Said this turkey hunting thing is ez.. Didn't kill a bird for 3 yrs after that. took my wife years ago for her first turkey hunt, she wasnt hunting just tagging along with me for first time. a friend had 1 day left on his permit / quota at triple n and gave it to me. 3 hour drive she slept, arrived and walked to a area i had good luck prior years and put out a hen decoy and got settled in . couple yelps and one gobbles a few hundred yards away. 15 minutes later a huge gobbler walks right to decoy. 10inch plus beard, 1 1/2 spurs ,18 lbs. so 6 hours driving, 45 minutes total hunting. left fort lauderdale at 3 am back home by noon since we stopped for breakfast. so thats her idea of turkey hunting and she has never gone again since, pretty freaking easy she says.
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Post by tonyroma on Mar 27, 2024 11:54:04 GMT -5
First Gobbler I ever killed took all of 5 mins. Parked the truck, made a few clucks out comes a gobbler runs down a sandy hill right to me..like bee line. Barely had time to get my gun up then smoked em. Said this turkey hunting thing is ez.. Didn't kill a bird for 3 yrs after that. took my wife years ago for her first turkey hunt, she wasnt hunting just tagging along with me for first time. a friend had 1 day left on his permit / quota at triple n and gave it to me. 3 hour drive she slept, arrived and walked to a area i had good luck prior years and put out a hen decoy and got settled in . couple yelps and one gobbles a few hundred yards away. 15 minutes later a huge gobbler walks right to decoy. 10inch plus beard, 1 1/2 spurs ,18 lbs. so 6 hours driving, 45 minutes total hunting. left fort lauderdale at 3 am back home by noon since we stopped for breakfast. so thats her idea of turkey hunting and she has never gone again since, pretty freaking easy she says. I had a similar hunt at Triple N
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Post by drgibby on Mar 28, 2024 13:50:31 GMT -5
About 20 years ago I had killed a bird at my family property in Hernando Co. Before I went back to Largo I decided to swing by my cousins property about 5 miles away to check some camera cards. As I pulled up to the barn I noticed 2 strutters and 10 hens down in the front pasture about 200 yards away. I parked behind the barn, grabbed my gear and went to calling. I watched them pay me no attention for the next hour. As I crawled back to the truck I remembered watching a video of someone in south Florida "fanning" a gobbler. I took my pocket knife and cut the fan off the bird in the truck and crept out behind the barn into the edge of the pasture. When I held the fan up there was an immediate reaction, both heads shot straight up like periscopes on a sub. They both began charging straight up the hill towards me. I sat on my but, still holding the fan in my left hand, trying to keep it spread as I put the shotgun on my rt knee. When they got to about 10 yards I rolled one and the other stood there trying to figure out what just happened, just like I was. Until this day I still take a fan with me every time I hunt and it is still leading gabblers to their demise! Plus I shoot a .410 which will save your nose when you shoot one handed.
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Post by james14 on Mar 28, 2024 22:42:03 GMT -5
Is shooting one prone or having them close enough to touch with your gun considered unusual? That’s just a normal morning for me…. Laying in the wide open with them walking all around you?
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Post by bullfrog on Mar 29, 2024 7:52:04 GMT -5
Is shooting one prone or having them close enough to touch with your gun considered unusual? That’s just a normal morning for me…. Laying in the wide open with them walking all around you? Yes. I started turkey hunting with rifles and switched to shotguns only to make it easier to hunt 360° and take a quick shot. With a rifle you pretty much have to lay down so as to have a way to keep the rifle completely steady for a precise shot and that limits you to not being able to take a shot behind you. If the turkey isn’t directly in front of your rifle, which cannot be moved, you don’t have a shot. The scenario that often creates is one where turkeys are walking all around you as you lay motionless hoping that the gobbler will move from your side to directly into the crosshairs of the scope. And it taught me that they’re not well equipped to process humans laying prone. Rarely have I ever spooked a turkey in this manner. Many times they’ve been close enough to grab by hand. Once I had a gobbler strutting that close and I could hear his feathers go “woooosh” every time he flared out in a strut. Usually the turkeys that are that close are just walking or feeding. I’m convinced I could film myself decapitating one with a samurai sword were it a legal method of take. Turkeys are robots. Way more so than a mature buck. Its so much easier to kill a mature gobbler than a buck.
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Post by TRTerror on Mar 29, 2024 20:08:22 GMT -5
I don't Turkey hunt so I screw with them while I'm deer hunting. Forget not moving or staying still. When a bunch walk by me and go to looking hard I'll put my hands under my armpits and go to flapping my arms. Many times they will freak out for a bit then walk right over to me and just walk around me trying to figure out what kind of bird I am. They are Alert..Not smart...
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