spring turkeys
01-13-2002, 08:01 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: mpls mn USA
Posts: 177
spring turkeys
anyone going this spring? what kind of set up do you use? I went last year and sent my app. for this year. might try a blind this year, got busted twice last year drawing got one shot hit a brance three feet in front of the beard so it goes I guess.
01-13-2002, 10:20 PM
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: California
Posts: 600
RE: spring turkeys
66", 54# Chek-Mate Crusader T/D longbow with 28" BOP cedar arrows and Zwickey Eskimo 2 blade broadheads. I gotta get some of the Zwickey wires that go on the shaft behind the head. Some old Camo coveralls, gloves, hat and mouth diaphram.
01-14-2002, 11:52 AM
#3
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Omaha NE USA
Posts: 261
RE: spring turkeys
I will be out there shooting my Browning Matrix behind a blind and using box and slate calls. Nebraska has a seperate bow season that starts March 25th and then runs through all the shotgun seasons and ends mid. May.
Lefty Llewellyn
Lefty Llewellyn
01-14-2002, 01:49 PM
#5
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: AR USA
Posts: 889
RE: spring turkeys
yea, I'm gonna try it with my bow for a couple weeks. I've got a homemade blind
that in set up close to roostin sites, and it just happens to be a dustin
site also. I'm also gonna try it form a treestand. I've been lucky enogh to
draw on a few turkeys from my stand, so i might get lucky.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
that in set up close to roostin sites, and it just happens to be a dustin
site also. I'm also gonna try it form a treestand. I've been lucky enogh to
draw on a few turkeys from my stand, so i might get lucky.<img src=icon_smile_wink.gif border=0 align=middle>
01-14-2002, 01:55 PM
#6
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Saegertown PA meadville,pa,us
Posts: 165
RE: spring turkeys
Can't wait for the season to get here! I use an 83# Shelby longbow, 2219 aluminum's and 160gr. Magnus I's. It's an exciting hunt when things go right (which is almost never) but that's what keeps me coming back for more. Good Luck!
01-14-2002, 02:04 PM
#7
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: belding mi USA
Posts: 34
RE: spring turkeys
I have tried to bowhunt turkeys for years but always seem to end up hunting with my Remington 11-87. Oh well that is the way it goes. One of the guys that I hunt with did take one turkey with a bow, he started in a tree stand but the birds always seem to be able to see you draw up there so he went to the ground and promply killed a nice turkey. Also from having birds in while hunting deer I noticed this as well. I guess that turkeys are probably easier to hunt from the ground with a bow.
01-14-2002, 02:07 PM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Honeyhole, IA USA
Posts: 494
RE: spring turkeys
This will be my 1st year to bowhunt spring turkeys. I am planning on shooting the 1st with the trusty 12, but then move to bow.
will be using a Q2 at 63#,28" 5575 GT XT, Gold tip gladiator 100s.
Thinking of buying a T2 double bull.
Edited by - btomlin on 01/14/2002 15:09:21
will be using a Q2 at 63#,28" 5575 GT XT, Gold tip gladiator 100s.
Thinking of buying a T2 double bull.
Edited by - btomlin on 01/14/2002 15:09:21
01-14-2002, 09:51 PM
#10
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: chiefland Florida USA
Posts: 5,417
RE: spring turkeys
I have never just bow hunted for turkey's,I have taken two with the bow while deer hunting.
I am going to try for them with bow this year in the spring.
I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest
remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.
I am going to try for them with bow this year in the spring.
I am not a hunter I am a whitetail population reduction specialest
remember keep your back to the sun, your knife sharp, and your powder dry.