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I would like to hunt turkeys with my bow this fall. It will be my first time hunting turkeys. I just want to konw some good ways to set-up my decoys (if I should use them that is) and what some good calling techniques would be.
Question by hjohn429. Uploaded on August 03, 2009
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Answers (6)
Sounds like a great hunt. I want to hunt turkies with my bow too, but i have a hard enough time with them with my shotgun. I will take one with my bow someday. As far as the decoys go, i know they work well in the spring(mating season) but i don't know if they work well in the fall. Good luck, i'd like to hear how you do.
The decoy should be facing you. The struting bird will face the decoy and you shoot the bird right up the a$$ while it is in full strut.
Turn the weight down on your bow. You may have to hold it back for a long time and yu don't need a whole lot of power to punch a bird.
Buy a ground blind
Use a mouth call
Use fixed blades and learn the kill zone. It is very small
Very True buckhunter. definately use a blind. Switch to your mouth call when they get close. and practice shooting ur bow. you do not want a bird flying a away with ur arrow hanging out of its breast. Turkeys and get shot straight into the breast and they will fly away and can live. Either shoot em in the read or u can shoot them about mid way up there body right through the wing. You could also get a gobbler guitine and shoot the heads right off of them. Its not easy tho.. again alot of practice.. best of luck buddy
I have taken 2 gobblers with a bow while deer hunting. Other than that I don't turkey hunt much in the fall.
fall is different, they don't breed in the fall and I don't think you will see any strutting. Personally, I wouldnt fool with decoys, but maybe I just havent heard of that.
SO WHAT THIS MEANS is you need to try to call in towards your blind turkeys that have gotten separated from the flock. If it is a young bird it can be desperate and any calling will work. Otherwise, good calling can matter. Doing this during deer season [if legal] is good because all the activity sometimes freaks out the flocks.
Practice the calls at:
http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/calling_tips.html
especially the plain yelp and the assembly. The Kee Kee I would try just once in a while.
Elmers right,
Toms don't respond to decoys in the fall. First thing that you have to do is find an area with gobbler sign (if you don't know how to tell gobbler sign from other, just ask) or any turkey sign if you are allowed to shoot hens in the fall, and just go back to that spot the first day. As for the calling, in the fall, I do more clucking than anything. Elmer mentioned the Kee Kee, I only use that when I break up a flock of young birds. To break them up, all you do is run at them yelling or something. The Kee Kee is just the young birds trying to yelp but the first two "yelps" sound like it is saying "Kee Kee". The reason it does that is because they are too excited or scared to make the right sound. I kill alot of birds using the Kee Kee. And yelping is also good for calling the birds in.
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fall is different, they don't breed in the fall and I don't think you will see any strutting. Personally, I wouldnt fool with decoys, but maybe I just havent heard of that.
SO WHAT THIS MEANS is you need to try to call in towards your blind turkeys that have gotten separated from the flock. If it is a young bird it can be desperate and any calling will work. Otherwise, good calling can matter. Doing this during deer season [if legal] is good because all the activity sometimes freaks out the flocks.
Practice the calls at:
http://www.nwtf.org/all_about_turkeys/calling_tips.html
especially the plain yelp and the assembly. The Kee Kee I would try just once in a while.
Sounds like a great hunt. I want to hunt turkies with my bow too, but i have a hard enough time with them with my shotgun. I will take one with my bow someday. As far as the decoys go, i know they work well in the spring(mating season) but i don't know if they work well in the fall. Good luck, i'd like to hear how you do.
Elmers right,
Toms don't respond to decoys in the fall. First thing that you have to do is find an area with gobbler sign (if you don't know how to tell gobbler sign from other, just ask) or any turkey sign if you are allowed to shoot hens in the fall, and just go back to that spot the first day. As for the calling, in the fall, I do more clucking than anything. Elmer mentioned the Kee Kee, I only use that when I break up a flock of young birds. To break them up, all you do is run at them yelling or something. The Kee Kee is just the young birds trying to yelp but the first two "yelps" sound like it is saying "Kee Kee". The reason it does that is because they are too excited or scared to make the right sound. I kill alot of birds using the Kee Kee. And yelping is also good for calling the birds in.
The decoy should be facing you. The struting bird will face the decoy and you shoot the bird right up the a$$ while it is in full strut.
Turn the weight down on your bow. You may have to hold it back for a long time and yu don't need a whole lot of power to punch a bird.
Buy a ground blind
Use a mouth call
Use fixed blades and learn the kill zone. It is very small
Very True buckhunter. definately use a blind. Switch to your mouth call when they get close. and practice shooting ur bow. you do not want a bird flying a away with ur arrow hanging out of its breast. Turkeys and get shot straight into the breast and they will fly away and can live. Either shoot em in the read or u can shoot them about mid way up there body right through the wing. You could also get a gobbler guitine and shoot the heads right off of them. Its not easy tho.. again alot of practice.. best of luck buddy
I have taken 2 gobblers with a bow while deer hunting. Other than that I don't turkey hunt much in the fall.
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