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Anyone do any practiceing calling
crooketarrow:
I use'lly start mid MARCH calling (practiceing). I know you've been taught to never call up gobblers early exspecially places where your going hunt. Nothing could be father from the truth.
You just have to do one simple thing. After you've called him up ,let him walk away unspooked.
How mqny times do you think a gobbler go's looking for a calling hen never to find her. Your not only getting practice on a real gobbler. Your finding out if your set up works. I hunt farm land so I can use set ups over exspecially if I already know the set up has aready worked. work.
I've been going early practiceing ever year since I was a little kid. Granddday his whole life before me. And he gobbler hunted 88 springs in a row. He killed 312 gobblers with a shotgun.
Besides how much practice to you get person each seaon. Stop practiceing on your family and start with reall gobblers.
On the 16 th I heard my first gobble of the spring. The next morning I had 5 jakes fighting 25 yards. Yesterday morning I called up my first birds. 3 Hens not what I invisioned.
It's getting warm. I love to bow hunt gobblers. Have for 25 years. Looking for # 16 with a selfbow.
I think I love gobbler hunting a tad more than buck hunting. I'm sure it's the warmer weather that leans me toward gobbler hunting. It might be because I grew up liveing gobblers with granddady.
PAHunter:
Sounds like good advice to me. I'm counting down the days till season this year!
PEARL DRUMS:
I always get jealous of you this time of year Roy. I wish I had the free time in the mornings you do. I get, if Im lucky, 2 Saturday mornings a month to do my thing. Sunday mornings we go to church.
JW_Halverson:
I used to have a place out of city limits where the turkeys came thru the yard several times a day. Some days I would be walking THROUGH the flock to retrieve arrows from the straw bales I was shooting!!!
They were very used to seeing me and absolutely sure I was nothing to concern themselves over. They taught me about the soft flock calls that they use in everyday conversation. I use far less yelping and such these days.
Some places may consider calling turkeys outside of season as "harassment of game", though. Check your local laws!
Andrea S:
Thanks for starting this post - I'm excited to go turkey hunting for the first time this spring! Season here in Montana starts April 11, and one of my friends who is crazy for turkey hunting told me to go scout my spots at night or in the very early morning to see if I could get a response or even a "shock gobble" out of them to locate where they are roosting.
Crooketarrow, are you using box calls, diaphragm calls, or just your voice when you're practicing?
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