Primitive Archer
Main Discussion Area => Shooting and Hunting => Topic started by: youngbowyer on February 06, 2012, 09:05:50 pm
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Was just interested to see how many of y'all will be chasing turkeys around this spring. I just applied for my permit last week(there's a lottery for turkey permits here in jersey) Hope to see some pictures come Spring!
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I'll be hunting several states for several months. :)Can't wait, they've already started Gobbling down here.
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I just got a nice little river cane yelper turkey call and have been practicing. I don't think they are even taking applications for spring turkey season here yet!
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i need many turkey feathers for fletching so there going down! and they will be pretty fat and tasty too by the looks.
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Yep that is my plan,in a month and 3 weeks. :) No drawings here just get you tags and go kill um. :) I think its 4 Tom's this year for the spring hunt and season last a little of 2 months. :)
Pappy
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You might want to try one of these new 'moble' blinds... >:D >:D >:D
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Wild Turkey and Coke caused me to miss many a class in college.
Can't wait to start chasing those birds. Got one of those midget bows that fits nicely in my blind, just need to get some pointy arrows ready for it.
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I'll be out there with my bow. 8)
Waiting to see when and where I got a permit in the 3rd lotto and will then apply for a 3rd permit in the last drawing!! :-\
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I'll be chasin them for sure!! Spring turkey with a bow is almost my favorite. bought my tag a few weeks ago. We can buy them over the counter now, no need for lottery here in Michigan. Unless you want the first few weeks. There is a guaranteed hunt, but it's for the late season. Anyway, I'm workin on a new short bow, just for the birds ;D
Tattoo Dave
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no shortage of turkeys in TN can count 5 in about every field
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drive around here and you will find them. i imagine its a little hard to shoot a bow from a vehicle let alone a longbow.
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till a garden round here it will get scrached up . all the old timers will let you shoot all you can tote
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I've been bow hunting gobbler for 28 years. 21 With a self bow, quit hunt hunting in 05. It's an a addiction of mine every spring. ( 15 with a self bow, 4 with knaped points, 31 with a shot gun) Only thing more fun than gobblers and selfbows are mature bucks and self bows. Gobblers are far easyer. On the farm I live on a saw a flock of hens in NOV 86, A FLOCK OF JAKES 17 in DEC and a flock of 7 LONG BEARDS TOGETHER IN NOV. It's the same on all the other farms I hunt and manage. I SAW BIRDS ALL BOW SEASON LONG. I grew up here in the EASTERN PANDLE of WV theres always been lots of gobblers.
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I'll be in south west NE at the end of April. My hopes are to get one with my red oak board bow. We'll see though, I may have to put it down and borrow my son's Christmas present, a Remington 870. Then it's back to Illinois and I have a permit for some public land early to mid May. Haven't gotten an Eastern yet. Would love to add that to my experience's. I love turkey hunting, it's like deer hunting but without scent control. I go nut's trying to remain scent free. Love the spring.
-Jeremy
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I'll be in south west NE at the end of April. My hopes are to get one with my red oak board bow. We'll see though, I may have to put it down and borrow my son's Christmas present, a Remington 870. Then it's back to Illinois and I have a permit for some public land early to mid May. Haven't gotten an Eastern yet. Would love to add that to my experience's. I love turkey hunting, it's like deer hunting but without scent control. I go nut's trying to remain scent free. Love the spring.
-Jeremy
Amazing eyesight, freakishly good hearing, thank God they have such a poor sense of smell or we'd never get one!
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I live for it. I take a week off EVERY year to chase turkeys with a self bow. I dont use blinds, but I do use a decoy here and there. Its easier to get a poke at a turkey with a bow and no blind that one might think. Of course the ground your hunting can make or break that deal. I hunt thick farmland fence rows and woods with lots of hiding spots.
J-dub I say a prayer every turkey hunting morning becasue I dont have to worry about wind for once! But I still find myself checking the wind as I stalk.....some habits are hard to break.
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I'll be chasing my first turkey this year. We have quite a few around here too so it should be fun. I could probabely sit in my front door and take one as they like to parade by the porch every morning and evening before they roost about 100yds from the house, but then again thats not very sporting so I will move to the end of the pasture and set up a ground blind in the cedars to the south. Danny
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I dont use blinds, but I do use a decoy here and there. Its easier to get a poke at a turkey with a bow and no blind that one might think. Of course the ground your hunting can make or break that deal. I hunt thick farmland fence rows and woods with lots of hiding spots.
I am a pretty aggressive, move around turkey hunter. I am thinking about stickbow this year for turkeys and with this moving, I would rather not use a blind. Any other thoughts and suggestions for archery turkeys w/o a blind??
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I dont use blinds, but I do use a decoy here and there. Its easier to get a poke at a turkey with a bow and no blind that one might think. Of course the ground your hunting can make or break that deal. I hunt thick farmland fence rows and woods with lots of hiding spots.
I am a pretty aggressive, move around turkey hunter. I am thinking about stickbow this year for turkeys and with this moving, I would rather not use a blind. Any other thoughts and suggestions for archery turkeys w/o a blind??
Wait for a single gobbler, let him walk past you, pray he goes into full strut and then fire an arrow up the tailpipe! In full strut all the feathers in the fan point to the heart of the kill zone. About the only time you can move is when his view is blocked by his fan. Good Luck!
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Man I flippin hate turkeys!!!! Ironically I shot my first gobbler with a bow last season while I was deer hunting. It was the same day I got my buck. Funny because my brother was turkey hunting all week and came up empty handed. Anyway I'm considering taking out my 2nd selfbow and seeing what happens, should make it interesting.
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I dont use blinds, but I do use a decoy here and there. Its easier to get a poke at a turkey with a bow and no blind that one might think. Of course the ground your hunting can make or break that deal. I hunt thick farmland fence rows and woods with lots of hiding spots.
I am a pretty aggressive, move around turkey hunter. I am thinking about stickbow this year for turkeys and with this moving, I would rather not use a blind. Any other thoughts and suggestions for archery turkeys w/o a blind??
ALWAYS have your next hiding spot picked out ahead of time. I get on birds, find a good spot to hide and draw my bow. Then I immediatley start looking for my next hiding spot if a I need to make a hurried exit. Just stay ahead of the game is what Im saying. I drew on a bird at 6 feet last year. The arrow never REALLY left my string so I didnt technically miss. I was sitting behind a triple trunk tree. The bird came to call and drew when his head went behind my hiding tree, he popped out and I released. WHACK one blade of my broadhead caught the bark on the tree that was hidning me and stopped my arrow half way to brace..............otherwise dead bird at 6 feet.
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Oh yes I will be chasing them......I always am. Love to hunt turkeys.
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This is one I got last year.
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And these are two from last year........one of them was with the one I killed.....I didnt shoot him because I didnt want to be greedy.
Also my brother got his first bird one hour before I killed mine. We were hunting together.
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I'm considering hunting them with a selfbow. Still debating that or going out with my neighbor and his shotgun. What poundage do you recommend for turkeys?
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Yep I have not shot one with a bow yet......I would suggest shooting what you hunt deer with, and the closer the shot the better. I plan to hunt just with a bow this year.
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No less than 45# at 10-12 yards is my opinion. I have shot a few with 55# bows at 10 yards and barely poked out the other side. They did a get a free ride in my truck though! Turkeys arent mega tough like we are lead to believe. They are just light in physical weight. When your arrow makes contact and tries to transfer stored energy to a 20# bird it pushes the animal rather than push the broadhead through. When that same arrow hits a 150# deer it pushes through and lays on the other side....hopefully.
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I'm thinking a 50 pound bend in the handle recurve bow...?
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I'm thinking a 50 pound bend in the handle recurve bow...?
With turkeys being so sensitive to motion, I would agree with youngbowyer...shorter limbs, plenty heavy enough to punch that arrow thru the wingbutts. Kill 'em, smoke 'em, love 'em.
Nothing like wild turkey on the table!
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I got mine a few years ago with a #60 osage, coral point on a bamboo arrow at ten yards. The arrow didn't even slow down, made a passthru and flew another twenty yards. I was in a pop up blind.
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It's not as hard as you think to draw and shoot gobblers or bucks. I kill and miss gobblers everyyear. American indains did'nt have any special powers. And have you ever seen there bows,arrows and heads. I would'nt even since one of there heads down range. No they just did one simple thing. My granddad killed 312 gobblers in 92 spings and he set up the same way on most. He hunted all over the south every year as well as 1 or 2 northern states and all his old turkey buddy hunted this way for the most part.
This works on bucks as well as gobblers. JUST SET UP WHERE THEY HAVE TO WALK PAST YOU. Gobbler and bucks seam to know behind them is safe and if you let them walk past you where your out of there perferable vision. There just alot easer to draw on. You can take your time. The main reason most instintive shots are missed.
I defies all the vidios you see on TV. pic's. in mags and what you've read. They have to have the gobbler in front of them. For the camers. I do a complete turn around and set up with my back to the gobbler. Where he has to walk past you. Plus remember if you can see him he can see you. And you can't out set a gobbler thats came looking for your calls. Nor can you out draw a gobbler thats in front of you if he dos'nt walk behing something. Believe me I've tried dozzens of times.
Plus with gobblers you uselly don't have hang ups because your calling sounds are going away. Makeing it seam your father than you really are. Also calls make away from gobblers you can't hear the misstakes as well as a gobbler your calling straight to you.
I set up on mature bucks the same way as gobblers. I can tell you that your % of shots will go way up. I've killed 36 bucks unteen does 15 gobblers with a selfbow. Not counting all the shot gun kills of gobblers 31 all most all were let walk by me. Buck kills with a rifle dosn't matter much. Since you can reach out and touch them.
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I got my jr bowhunting liscense last year and called in a hen that I couldn't shoot and watched her walk all ofer me, hopefully I'll hav better luck this year
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I got my jr bowhunting liscense last year and called in a hen that I couldn't shoot and watched her walk all ofer me, hopefully I'll hav better luck this year
Hens can often be harder to fool than the gobbler. After all, she has the instincts to take care of herself and her brood. The gobbler is just looking for sex!
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This will be my third year with selfbow in hand. Short shot one two years ago and shot over Tom's back last year. Maybe I've ranged in for this year. I got a jake with my flintlock a few years ago, but the stick keeps calling me now!
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I got a jake with my flintlock a few years ago, but the stick keeps calling me now!
I have got a few with both flintlock and matchlock... now I REALLY want to use a stick.
IW
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I am going after gobblers this spring. Go visit my brother in Lagrande and we will head out. I can't wait till he sees my short 40" turkey ambush bow (hupa replica in process). I always give him a hard time about his shot on a pronghorn from a blind, where his 62" bob lee recurve tip hit the top of the blind. He shot it in the head, but wasn't aiming there. Fell over dead.
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LMAO! Only problem with claiming you meant to make a shot like that is you can never do it again!!!
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I'll be huntin em here in Massachusetts this year with a friend, both first time huntin turkeys with a bow. Good luck to everyone!
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You might want to try one of these new 'moble' blinds... >:D >:D >:D
I have done that 2 times...no fun
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Was out again this morning! I was calling for a friend of mine and she had a blast! We worked 5 different birds, nearly got run over in a whitetail deer stampede, and had a hen come RUNNING in to kick my keister! The best set up was all bad and the gobbler hung at 65 yds strutting for an hour and a half.
Yeah! It was THAT much fun! Can't wait to go again!
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Getting a 4 day hunt in this memorial day, pretty confident.
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Good luck
Our season just ended SAT I had awesome season and a great last day. I did'nt kill any gobblers but I shot through a ones fan and missed one takeing off 12 yards last day.
Before I tell you this you got to remember I hunt farm gobblers. And the really visable.
I hunted 20 times Iuse'lly never miss a day but it rained and wind blew hard
a few days. I called up 12 long beards to with in 20 to 40 yards easy shoot gun shots. I did'nt keep count but at least 60 or 70 rifle shots under 200 yards. I also called up 15 jakes all under 20 yards. Had 6 at 8 yards really kicked UDALES BUTT my jake decoy. They let the air out of him. He's a blow up. My best day for sighting was 21 ,19 the next day.
Shot through one fan struting away at 12 yards the third from the last day. And had a last day in call ups and sighting like no other. Saw 12 gobblers called up 8 to with in 15 yards missed one takeing off flying at 12 yards. I did call up 2 that a gut and
Not neanly the seasons in the past in kills. But I did call up and a guy I know and his son each killed (SHOOT GUN). I saw the most gobblers I've ever seen 102 on just my 2 farms I manage.
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Good luck to all. But if you really want to go primitive, use a bolo! ::) ::) :P ;D ;D ;D
Wayne