I am a first time turkey hunter and was wondering if anyone could give me advice on turkey hunting. Like where to set up and what kind of calls and etc.

 

 

HELP!!!

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Most all of the calls on the market work fine. Fields are good places to start to find turkets. Look for them early AM or later in the PM. Practice your calling before the hunt but don't go out and practice on turkeys before the season. It can  mess you up before the season.

This is just some of the basic stuff. Good luck.

Don't forget a locator call like a crow call.  That'll help you find em, too.  Try & "roost" the birds the nite before your hunt.  When you do, just don't set up too close, may bump them off the roost.

It's always a good idea to do some pre season scouting.  My dad and I turkey hunt in northeast Wisconsin and we will drive around looking for a groups of turkeys in fields during the evening.  By finding where they are during the evening, you can sometimes find out the general area where they are roosting.  Try to set up a morning hunt in an area where you think the birds will fly down in the morning.  Just be careful not to spook them.  I've had my fair share of that before......

I would go with a box call, maybe a push-button call and try to learn a double reed mouth call. If you want to go more advanced try a slate call. Check out my website at gobblintoms.com let me know if you have any questions??

I would go with a simple push-pin style call or even a box call there a no brainer call one thing to keep in mind is DONT OVER CALL when the bird answers back to your call slow down and coax him towards you take some breaks in between calling and for the most part get out there an scout find where the birds are look an see where there roosting and feeding with that you should be able to get inbetween a bird for a good day of hunting hope this helps any questions feel free to drop me a note i am a call builder from here in Ohio any questions on calling i'll do my best to help.

     Concealment is very important as you probably already know.   Turkeys have incredible vision.  Make sure that you have camo from head to toe and make sure if your gun isn't camo to use a camo gun sock or camo tape.  Use a good back drop to hide yourself if not using a blind.  Also make sure when you get set up against a tree that you are in the most comfortable position possible to eliminate movement so you won't spoke the birds.   Remember if you do use a ground blind in open field areas to wear all black.   

 

     Now in the spring season as far as decoy set up goes make sure that if you are using a jake and a hen together, always have the jake facing you and the hen facing away from you.    Also try to remember with your set up that you are trying to get the Tom to do something that is unatural for him to do.  Which is come to the hen,  in nature the hen will come to the Tom.   So try to set up in such a way that he won't see the decoys right away and hang back and be reluctant to come in.  

 

    Another thing to think about are natural or man made obsticles that might keep that  Tom out of gun range.   Any creek that you can't easily jump across, that turkey won't either.  Fences are also a common obsticle to think about.  Nothing is more frustrating than hearing that tom gobble for an hour or so thinking that any second he's gonna be in gun range afterwards to find out that he was hung up by a fence.   

 

   Anyway thats about all I can think of that no one else has covered yet.   Also by no means am i an expert with turkey hunting.  Just have done a little reading.  Remember like the other guys have said, putem to bed the night before, get in close with out bumping the birds and be patient!!   Goodluck!!! 

jrausch wrote:      Concealment is very important as you probably already know.   Turkeys have incredible vision.  Make sure that you have camo from head to toe and make sure if your gun isn't camo to use a camo gun sock or camo tape.  Use a good back drop to hide yourself if not using a blind.  Also make sure when you get set up against a tree that you are in the most comfortable position possible to eliminate movement so you won't spoke the birds.   Remember if you do use a ground blind in open field areas to wear all black.           Now in the spring season as far as decoy set up goes make sure that if you are using a jake and a hen together, always have the jake facing you and the hen facing away from you.    Also try to remember with your set up that you are trying to get the Tom to do something that is unatural for him to do.  Which is come to the hen,  in nature the hen will come to the Tom.   So try to set up in such a way that he won't see the decoys right away and hang back and be reluctant to come in.         Another thing to think about are natural or man made obsticles that might keep that  Tom out of gun range.   Any creek that you can't easily jump across, that turkey won't either.  Fences are also a common obsticle to think about.  Nothing is more frustrating than hearing that tom gobble for an hour or so thinking that any second he's gonna be in gun range afterwards to find out that he was hung up by a fence.         Anyway thats about all I can think of that no one else has covered yet.   Also by no means am i an expert with turkey hunting.  Just have done a little reading.  Remember like the other guys have said, putem to bed the night before, get in close with out bumping the birds and be patient!!   Goodluck!!!

 

 

good post ...

patience is a must

I know this is on calling but I like to add that, you need to also test your pattern on which ever Ga shot gun your going to use because if your a great caller and get a nice Tom into range and can't him him all the calling in the world isn't doing any good .