jkratz5
Well-Known Member
Be Lucky!!!
Just kidding, I usually pick up a fall bow tag and have hunted them with a gun in the past. It is a lot more sit and wait in the fall, but several things can help, like scouting the birds and figuring out where they like to feed, and where they roost. The only call that I would use would be the kee kee run, seems to work fairly well and I have even done this one with my mouth and called turkeys in.
Just kidding, I usually pick up a fall bow tag and have hunted them with a gun in the past. It is a lot more sit and wait in the fall, but several things can help, like scouting the birds and figuring out where they like to feed, and where they roost. The only call that I would use would be the kee kee run, seems to work fairly well and I have even done this one with my mouth and called turkeys in.
moosehunter
PMA Member
bring you bird dog this fall
Handcannon
Well-Known Member
My Dad & I both took toms our 1st fall. Calling did no good. We just waited for one to walk by. I have found spring to be easier as the toms are more vocal.
kbgibby
Threebeards
Try to pattern them and set up along their path. If you listen to the birds (hens and jakes) as they move along feeding, they make soft purrs and clucks. I've tried making similar calls and had them swing my way. Just do what the birds are doing. I've not had much luck locating toms in the fall, but the young birds are better eating anyway.
Good luck ... it's only 4 months away.
Good luck ... it's only 4 months away.
Ghost
Life Member
I don't care for Fall turkey hunting much anymore...
#1 I don't want to be messing around in my deer timber at that time of year.
#2 The Spring gobbling is what gets my blood pumping.
#3 Shooting a turkey from a tree stand is almost impossible with their eyesight. IMO
But, for those of you that do like it, this used to work well for me.
Find their roost location and bust them all off right before dark. You will return in the morning with a timber full of turkey talk as they try to re-group. Just listen to their calls and that will tell you how to call. This will range from lost hen calls, kee kee runs of young birds, raspy yelps of jakes and adult gobblers.
Good Luck!
#1 I don't want to be messing around in my deer timber at that time of year.
#2 The Spring gobbling is what gets my blood pumping.
#3 Shooting a turkey from a tree stand is almost impossible with their eyesight. IMO
But, for those of you that do like it, this used to work well for me.
Find their roost location and bust them all off right before dark. You will return in the morning with a timber full of turkey talk as they try to re-group. Just listen to their calls and that will tell you how to call. This will range from lost hen calls, kee kee runs of young birds, raspy yelps of jakes and adult gobblers.
Good Luck!
Shredder
Life Member
I have not hunted them specifically in the fall for about 10 years but used to shoot my 2 birds every fall with my archery tag.....have to do it early tho...when the leaves come off the trees, it gets really hard to get drawn. Good luck
BTW...the way Ghost used to hunt them in the fall is how I did...works very well.
BTW...the way Ghost used to hunt them in the fall is how I did...works very well.
boacephus
New Member
Ghost pretty much has it the way we used to back home, cept not during anyspecific time. We would locate em, then purposly bust them up, move about ten yards, hide call em in to regroup. I've seen my step father do this over and over on the same flock just to prove to me it could be done, lol. He didn't shoot any he just kept calling and busting calling and busting. I just usually buy a tag for the fall and attempt to shot them off stand while deer hunting. I see them almost every evening from one stand, deer usually show up about 5 minutes after I see the turkeys though. Hate getting spooky birds around me when its time for the deer to move in.