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Title: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: yazoo on March 23, 2010, 10:26:51 pm
first leave call at home,,pattern them like deer spend your time in the woods,,we hunt mostly evenings,,,,I have been guideing for years,, most of our birds are killed 4 to 6 in the evening,,especally early season no calling,,ambush ,,,,,turkeys were gobbling good this morning here in east tn,, if you just like to here them gobble take a crow call,,,,I dont even carry crow call any more,, the crows hollar every morning anyway,, ;D
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: FlintWalker on March 23, 2010, 10:41:21 pm
You could just make a cow decoy and walk right up to them and shoot 'em  ;D  They ain't scared of cows ::)...At least they didn't used to be >:D

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Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: mullet on March 24, 2010, 12:50:32 am
 That's not too much fun for me. I like hearing them gobble on the roost, fly down, gobble on the ground. Then call them in as close as I can and turn their head into a sponge. If I have to rely on ambushing to get a bird, I'll just shoot one off the roost with a 22.

  But there is all different styles of hunting the birds. Where I hunted in Texas, they shot them long range with rifles.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Josh on March 24, 2010, 12:57:45 am
...I'm still loving "Bessie" the cow decoy trick...    ;D 
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Post by: mullet on March 24, 2010, 01:13:21 am
Me, too. The first time Shannon showed me that picture I cracked up.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: sailordad on March 24, 2010, 01:43:33 am
Eddie,i am like you on turkey hunting
love that gobble on the roost,the fly down,the calling,the strutting
the pounding of a load of #4 shot into their heads  >:D

the cow decoy wouldnt work where i hunt
for some reason the easterns we have will tolerate cattle near a barn
but out in the fields etc. and they shy away from the cattle
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: FlintWalker on March 24, 2010, 02:06:19 am
I've never killed one from behind "Bessie", but I've guided several friends with her.
  I like calling 'em in and killin' 'em myself.  That's all the fun in turkey hunting.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: leapingbare on March 24, 2010, 09:53:48 am
i used to stalk erm. i still do sometimes. but calling erm in sure is fun!
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: recurve shooter on March 24, 2010, 10:55:50 am

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If I have to rely on ambushing to get a bird, I'll just shoot one off the roost with a 22.


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Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Hillbilly on March 24, 2010, 12:13:45 pm
 Get you a pack of banjer strings, some # 10 treble hooks, and a..........just kidding.
Actually, a #220 conibear and a couple handfuls of shelled corn works a lot better. ;D ;D
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Ryano on March 24, 2010, 12:36:52 pm
You can only hunt spring turkey in the morning here, and the bird has to be called in..... Evenings would be easy I know where they always roost.....
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: huntertrapper on March 24, 2010, 01:02:27 pm
aint no easy way to go about it. just gotta get out there and give em a try. like ryano said cant hunt em after 12 here. gotta call them in too in spring no stalking
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: mullet on March 24, 2010, 02:07:18 pm
 Can't hunt after 1pm here on Mngt. Land. But you can hunt all day on private property.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Kegan on March 24, 2010, 02:12:57 pm
You can only hunt spring turkey in the morning here, and the bird has to be called in..... Evenings would be easy I know where they always roost.....

Because of this law, no turkey should be worried about my arrows. They all roost here and fly, down the hill, across the road. Don't have a chance to shoot them. Once they land, they're then berrated by every idiot who has $15 for a call and then the shotguns start going off. Last year my brother and I walked down to the bus, thought a car backfired- turns out someone shot a bird right across the road (shooting towards us).

I'd have more fun hunting crows... or ants. No one shoots at you when you're chasing ants :(
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: sailordad on March 24, 2010, 07:04:02 pm
well i may have to deal wit ha stupid ass lottey for turkey season
however we do get to hunt from (legaly) a hlaf hour before sunup to half hour after sundown
we can stalk if we want(not my method,too many idiots out there),call them in or whatever
our laws dont say you cant shoot of the roost,but i think its wrong.its like shooting ducks on the pond

calling them and getting them to commit and come in range
now thats turkey hunting,the gobbling,the strutting,the fighting,the purring, its all good
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: woodstick on March 24, 2010, 09:39:12 pm
gota call em in. its the whole hunt that is great.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: yazoo on March 24, 2010, 09:52:48 pm
I still get to hear gobbling , fighting, strutting,,purring ,spit and drum,,,,I just choose to let a real hen do my calling,,our season here in the mountians is to early,,and the hen ratio is 99 to 1,,,I have been in the woods all week cutting osage,, just one gobble on roost ,,but about four oclock they will cut loose and gobble there heads off,, we are putting some popup blinds up tonite,,I dont like to spook turkeys after I have there pattern down,,because I dont want to see birds while I am scouting,,If you interact with the birds you could change there patterns,,
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: sailordad on March 24, 2010, 11:12:12 pm
Mike your absolutely right about changing their patterns by interacting with them
here in mn we have a lot of small parcel farm land.one farm right ontop of the other in some areas
with all the open fields and few landowners letting ya use their land these days
i do my scouting from the road with a good pair of field glasses
i hunt the same land year after year so i know the terrain,when i go out the night before my week to hunt to set blinds
i very carefully and quietly walk the trails and look for sign,and never try calling untill the next day just after sun up,this way i know were thier travel routes are and
where i should put the blinds.
minimal interferance almost guarantees they wont change their patterns
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: El Destructo on March 24, 2010, 11:16:16 pm
A week from this Saturday...and I will show you...The Easy Way To Kill Turkey........ >:D......last Year I got Two for One on Toms....aint never seen that before in my Life...Shoot one and have another try to kill it...and then drop Him....I bet that won't happen agin in my lifetime......... ;D
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: yazoo on March 25, 2010, 11:02:31 am
I had the same thing happen here in tn,, I shot a tom and his 3 buddys attacked him for 15 min , spured him pecked his feathers out,,I just sat there and watched,, I dont know why them did this,, I have killed a few hundred birds only time I saw this
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: lowell on March 25, 2010, 12:57:53 pm
With all these easy ways to kill a turkey ....the 2010 picture section should be busy soon!! ;D ;)
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: John K on March 25, 2010, 03:10:28 pm
I'll be out April 21st-25th this year. Maybe i'll be able to get my picture up this year. Here is one of my decoys i'm going to use.  :D

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Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Cacatch on March 25, 2010, 03:43:14 pm
You guys talking about turkeys attacking dead companions for no apparent reason... We used to have an old tom turkey and a few hens on our farm. The old tom would agresively attack old empty plastic jugs, like of motor oil, if we had any laying around, or cardboard boxes, any inanimate object that tickled his fancy. At first it would look like an attack, like somehow the object angered him in some way...but then...toward the end it would turn into more of a violent romance  :o ....with the jug or box on the receiving end. No joke.  Turkeys are messed up. We never did figure out where his desire came from to mutilate and violate inanimate objects.

CP
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: sailordad on March 25, 2010, 07:21:53 pm
cacatch   horny toms when they get the juices overflowing will find a way of release (like males of all species)
              if you think he was violant to the jugs,you should see how mean they are on hens

as far as turkeys attacking dead friends
well its a dominance thing
turkeys fight for dominance all day long,the boss tom in tha a.m. may not be the boss in the after noon or evening
most hunters shoot or try to shoot the boss tom,the one that does the strutting
when he goes down the others attack trying to gain dominance in the flock
if you shoot a jake other jakes or toms that are not dominant will attack it to establish dominance
hell ive even seen,have to check the camera,and may have on film hens strutting
another dominance thing for the hens
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: mullet on March 25, 2010, 10:32:32 pm
 If you let them go long enough they will also butter baste that dead boy for you,,If you know what I mean.  ::) I had a friend one year that didn't want to eat his bird after it had been gang raped by Jakes, taking turns.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: FlintWalker on March 26, 2010, 01:27:44 am
I've seen them do that Eddie. I've also seen them so excited they'd do it solo.   I killed a big gobbler a few years ago that was "dry humping" ;D
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: El Destructo on March 26, 2010, 02:46:45 am
           Now we are a little Off Subject here Boyz.....lets quit Choking Chickens...and talk Turkeys again.......... >:D
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Pappy on March 26, 2010, 08:34:19 am
Just about everytime I have killed one and there are others around they have done that,I figured that is why the limit in TN. is one a day. I call  ,stalk and ambush ,what ever it takes.They are fun
to hunt but much more fun for me to eat. Some around here won't kill a Jake either,the only bad thing I have found about killing a Jake is the breast are smaller and usually one less primary feather
on each side. :) ;)
   Pappy
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: Cacatch on March 26, 2010, 10:37:59 am
If you let them go long enough they will also butter baste that dead boy for you,,If you know what I mean.  ::) I had a friend one year that didn't want to eat his bird after it had been gang raped by Jakes, taking turns.


ROTFLMAO   That is truly funny and ill both at the same time.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: crooketarrow on March 26, 2010, 01:16:17 pm
    I'm a caller not a ambusher.If thats all you what out of your hunting is to ambush and kill a gobbler thats fine with me.But you don't want to hunt around here you won't be called a turkey hunter.My granddad spring gobbler hunted for 82 springs in a row killed over 250 gobblers.And he wouldn't even use a decoy.He concered this ambushing.He went out to Neb. I think he hunted so many states I can't remember them all.Anyway the guy he hunted with used a gobbler fan he said he never laughed so hard.I can imagion what he'd think of BETESY.
   THERE IS NO EASY WAY TO KILL A GOBBLER.


  DEAD IS DEAD NO MATTER HOW FAST YOUR ARROW IS
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: jamie on March 26, 2010, 06:28:16 pm
I run em down and beat em with a rabbitstick.
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: El Destructo on March 26, 2010, 06:38:25 pm
PRIMAL FEAR...... >:D
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: sailordad on March 26, 2010, 07:51:44 pm
Jamie,ive thought of that
but around here if you step into a filed that is 300 yds across and there is a turkey way on the other side
they are gone before you get 10 yds into the field
trying to out maneuver them,well we have a lot of small farms and trying to get all the lnadowners in the area to let you
hunt is almos impossible,so ya take the one or two parcels you can get permission to hunt.you dont tell anyone about which landowner is letting you hunt either or next thing a know evryone nad there brother is hunting that piece of land
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: mullet on March 26, 2010, 10:24:56 pm
 Tim, Break out the .17 HMR with a 22grain bullet. ;D Don't forget to cluck before you shoot. ;)
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: stickbender on April 03, 2010, 02:38:04 am

     Kegan, don't you have a bird feeder, and some .22'S ? ::) ;D


                                                 Wayne
Title: Re: easy way to kill turkey
Post by: sailordad on April 03, 2010, 10:06:16 am
Tim, Break out the .17 HMR with a 22grain bullet. ;D Don't forget to cluck before you shoot. ;)

now theres an idea,i been wanting a new plinker too  ;D