sep0667
Land of the Whitetail
I think I'm going to try turkey hunting this spring. I have never gone before. One of the properties I bowhunt deer has a lot of turkeys. It is common to see 20 to 30 turkeys out in the fields that border it and going through it to and from roosting.
The property I bowhunt deer is not big, maybe 8 acres of actual cover and a nice creek flows through it. I secured permission to turkey hunt a 160 acre chunk that borders it to the south, I shed hunt it as well, but cant deer hunt it. It is mainly just a picked bean field with a couple tree/fence lines and same terraces. In the fall the turkeys roost along the creek and then filter out through the brush that I can hunt and go into the fields to feed etc.
I don't know a thing about turkey hunting. I will read up on it and watch some youtube etc. Shed hunting this winter there is still plenty of turkey sign..feathers, tracks, droppings etc.
Couple questions. I see pictures and videos of guys just having a blind sitting out in the open. Is it really that simple to just pop up a blind, they don't get spooked by it just there all of a sudden? Is it okay to move it to a different area the next day without it spooking the turkeys? How late in they day will you sit, morning seem better from my limited knowledge? I plan to try both gun and bow, but want to focus on gun to improve my odds being I've never done this. I plan to get some targets to shoot a couple rounds at first to see my pattern. I have a Mossberg 500, whats the furthest range I could expect to make a succesful shot?
Here it is. What is outlined is where I can all turkey hunt. The brush patch is where I can bowhunt for deer. I think maybe setting up along that fence line and hopping they come out in the field would be a good bet? If they are anything like in the fall where they just go out in the fields, I don't want to say it, but it would be a slam dunk. The red x's are the creek where they bed, the lines are where they go out in the fields, and the blue is where I was thinking to set up.
The property I bowhunt deer is not big, maybe 8 acres of actual cover and a nice creek flows through it. I secured permission to turkey hunt a 160 acre chunk that borders it to the south, I shed hunt it as well, but cant deer hunt it. It is mainly just a picked bean field with a couple tree/fence lines and same terraces. In the fall the turkeys roost along the creek and then filter out through the brush that I can hunt and go into the fields to feed etc.
I don't know a thing about turkey hunting. I will read up on it and watch some youtube etc. Shed hunting this winter there is still plenty of turkey sign..feathers, tracks, droppings etc.
Couple questions. I see pictures and videos of guys just having a blind sitting out in the open. Is it really that simple to just pop up a blind, they don't get spooked by it just there all of a sudden? Is it okay to move it to a different area the next day without it spooking the turkeys? How late in they day will you sit, morning seem better from my limited knowledge? I plan to try both gun and bow, but want to focus on gun to improve my odds being I've never done this. I plan to get some targets to shoot a couple rounds at first to see my pattern. I have a Mossberg 500, whats the furthest range I could expect to make a succesful shot?
Here it is. What is outlined is where I can all turkey hunt. The brush patch is where I can bowhunt for deer. I think maybe setting up along that fence line and hopping they come out in the field would be a good bet? If they are anything like in the fall where they just go out in the fields, I don't want to say it, but it would be a slam dunk. The red x's are the creek where they bed, the lines are where they go out in the fields, and the blue is where I was thinking to set up.
, but I am very grateful to be able to look for sheds and now turkey hunt) The red lines are where turkeys come out in the field in the morning and the blue X's is where I was thinking to set up. The blue sciggly line is actually a fence line.
