how do i scout for spring turkey season?
#21
RE: how do i scout for spring turkey season?
mossbergman11, A good site you might want to check out is the NWTF website.http://www.nwtf.org/
#22
RE: how do i scout for spring turkey season?
ORIGINAL: mossbergman11
i dont mean to be ignorant but what are scratching, dusting spots. what does turkey dropping look like?
how can you see turkey tracks?
ORIGINAL: Arrowmaster
I bacically do drive bys of the property I hunt, and I also go out and listen in the mornings. If I happen to go in the woods, I look for scratchings, dusting spots, tracks and droppings. One thing to remember DO NOT use your turkeys calls before season. No need to educate the birds...
I bacically do drive bys of the property I hunt, and I also go out and listen in the mornings. If I happen to go in the woods, I look for scratchings, dusting spots, tracks and droppings. One thing to remember DO NOT use your turkeys calls before season. No need to educate the birds...
how can you see turkey tracks?
Ok scratchings are when they are hunting for food. They will scratch the leaves to uncover food. Dusting spots are where the turkeys will find a spot where there is bare dirt, sand etc. They will roll in it flap their wings in it to get the bugs off. They are basically cleaning themselves. A hens poop looks like a blob, and a gobblers poop sometimes is in the shape of a J. Look for turkey tracks around streams, fields where the ground is soft and wet. Remember the hens track is much smaller thatn a gobblers.
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RE: how do i scout for spring turkey season?
ORIGINAL: Mr. Longbeard
I hear all you guys talking about not calling to the birds before the season because it educates them... What about the public land hunter who has no control over the other but nuggets running around in the woods months before the season opensWhat help can you give this guy
I hear all you guys talking about not calling to the birds before the season because it educates them... What about the public land hunter who has no control over the other but nuggets running around in the woods months before the season opensWhat help can you give this guy
Thats a good point Mr. Longbeard. I would have to say to get to know the area as best as you can. Learn their routes and where they are headed and still look for scratchings, droppings etc.
How do you scout Mr. Longbeard. I mean I hunt some public land and Im fortunate that I seem to be the only one who hunts there. Ive never ran into another hunter yet. So Ive been very very lucky. Im sure that day will come to an end when I have others breathing down my neck on public land...
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: how do i scout for spring turkey season?
I usually go to a few spots that have panned out for me in the past and start there lisening for birds to gobble on the roost... Then as the season progress I usually find other spots to hunt... If everthing goes well I usually kill one in one of my honey holesThe only prob is a lot of times my honey hole is somebody else honey hole also
I know I complain about public land alot, but I've learned that killing pressured Gobblers is a very rewarding hunt, and I really don't think I would feel the same way about turkey hunting if every bird I killed was a give me... So I'm trying to look at it as good thing and not a bad
I know I complain about public land alot, but I've learned that killing pressured Gobblers is a very rewarding hunt, and I really don't think I would feel the same way about turkey hunting if every bird I killed was a give me... So I'm trying to look at it as good thing and not a bad
#27
RE: how do i scout for spring turkey season?
ORIGINAL: mossbergman11
ok thanks for the info
wat about calls?
ok thanks for the info
wat about calls?
#29
RE: how do i scout for spring turkey season?
All the top brands are good. Primos, Knight and Hale, Quaker Boy, ect make good calls. The clearest calls i think are slate calls. I have had really good luck with them.