game keeper wrote:The only Wild Turkey I see is in a bottle...as I said in a previous post I know very little about hunting Turkeys, have you any links to a good article on the subject, so I can get edumecated....
http://www.amazon.com/Practical-Turkey- ... ZPTWQ1CR71
Maybe it is just me or maybe cause we have extremely good turkey hunting here but I find hunting a Turkey much easier than hunting a Whitetail deer. Key is getting to call good with a top shelf premium mouth call.
In the spring I have been sitting in full camo, painted face,I mean camo everything.
Back up against a huge hemlock and two smaller oaks in front forming a V at the ground.
Mouth call in, calling then waiting.
Turkeys appear, hens first then couple jakes then a little bigger one maybe 7" beard ?
Here come the hens, thinking OMG I mean they are coming. I had one honest to god step on my boot.
Did not flinch,didn't blink, don't think I breathed.
Coming up from over the ridge a whitetail gets about 40yds away (upwind)with turkeys all over.
It picks me out! Tail halfway up, puts its head down like its going to browse on something then wham back up doing the "let me catch him move deal" after about 5 mins it bolted tail high. Still turkeys walking around like chickens.
Finally a big tom came in to fight the smaller one and I blasted him in full strut on a log. Ruined few tail feathers too.
He is mounted and we call that one "Jake"
Its fun, but to me "nothing" compares to a huge whitetail buck"
Taking one hunting on the ground, to me that's a hunt and it beats anything!
Want to get your mind blown ?
Read this book on this family on how they hunt deer.
OMG
Will blow your mind. Least did for me.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Big-Bucks-the-B ... 4897.l4276
Everyday hiking with my "Old Yeller" dog on the mountain and it has been the worst winter I can ever remember in my life.
You get a true sense of what survival means.
Bears are sleeping in their dens, turkeys are in the roost a lot. Deer
they are tougher! Least to me.
No flying in a tree, no being in the den or big and bad with no one to mess with.
The Deer, a large animal,high metabolic rate, on the ground all the time in the thick of it. 24x7
To me they are the absolute survivor, least in these parts. Tough,Tough,Tough!
The wife yells having them mounted ($750)and $100 to process meat.
I say on that one ---shut-up dear! It aint changing.
