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I was wondering if any of you have a specific spot that produces for you year after year. I've heard of deer hunters having a "killing tree" and wondered if the same applies to turkeys. By spot i mean a pretty small area that you set up in consistently like maybe a 20 yard area or so.

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20 yard no.  One acre yes.  On Florida's north zone opener we hunt the same swamp area in any dry year.  Very consistent.

Two specific trees about 10 feet apart.

Buddy who taught me to spring hunt had access to some private ground at that time. Because of the terrain, those two trees we set up against produced 5 years straight.

I use to have permission to hunt a 80 acre field that had several hundred acres of woods that butted up to it. It had about a 40 yard stretch of the woods  on the backside that  was part of the the field.  There was one huge oak tree that at the base was a opening just big enough to sit inside of it and be almost totally concealed.
There were a couple of other fingers that went out into the field, two opening's that went into other fields, all better looking spots to set up. Over the 5 years I hunted this property I killed 9 birds and all but one came from setting up in that one oak tree.

I always referred to it as the killing tree.

Several

I have two.  One place I hunt is mostly hay fields and I have had a ground blind set up for kids and guests in the same two spots for the last five years or so.  We kill birds out of both each season.  This year one from each blind so far.

I used to have a spot that i killed of the same tree 3 consecutive opening mornings!
Man i hated to loose that place!!! :'(

Yes

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3 of them that have accounted for a couple dozen birds or more over the years.

Yeah, I have a spot or two like that, but I haven't personally hunted them in years.  Anymore, those places are saved for guests, and especially for out-of-state friends who I want to make have their best chance to tag a gobbler when they visit.  Quite honestly, I just get more satisfaction out of the process of finding a gobbler in a place I am not familiar with, and then playing the game,..win or lose,...than I do in hunting a spot where I am pretty certain I can regularly kill a gobbler because of my familiarity with their habits there. 

Of course, I also am fortunate enough to hunt a region where that attitude is possible because of the amount of public land, as well as having a distribution of birds such that my approach to it is feasible.  I know that there are a lot of folks that do not have that luxury. 

I have a place I call the Cove. It is a little section of a huge field that sits back behind a big ditch and a tree line on the west and a river with a steep bluff on the right. The river is lined by trees except for a 20 yard gap. Turkeys roost on the bluff then fly out through the gap in the trees and land in the cove which is about 40 yards wide and 40 yards deep. I've killed more gobblers there than anywhere else. It is a definite killing spot!

Yes, I have a tree that is my go to spot to sit and be patient. If I stay there long enough, a Tom will come. It is my best spot, a true Turkey harvesting spot for sure. Never lets me down.... :fud:

I have A favorite tree I set by at least once A season, usually if I don't hear anything in the morning I can eat A snack relax and mid morning, A bird will fire up in earshot of me. Then it's time to go.


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Lots of "killing trees"  birds die in the exact same places yearly

Terrain changes here all the time due to timber cutting in Mississippi. We focus on food plots and ridges where they want to be to strut.

I have a couple trees that have produced more than one bird...

But, I have areas that I always go to call from that I get a response from...  I generally have to move, but these are areas I will always stop and call from, and wait 20 minutes before moving on, cause all too often, I find a bird to chase from these spots...

Couple years back, I lost some sunglasses sitting on a fallen log; I looked everywhere for them before I left and could not find them...  Last year I found them inside the log as it had rotted out...  (They must have fallen in a hollow crevice, and as the tree rotted, they became visible)

I have in the past, killed 3 consecutive Missouri birds from the same point in a giant field.  Killed back to back birds a week apart in Illinois from the same tree, both were shot standing up behind the tree.

Countless spots on private I guided that were gold every year.

I think we all have those spots . However eventually .... The well runs dry

Two places on my lease have produced 12 kills and three misses in 17 days. Both spots smaller than half a football field.

There's one holler on a property I hunt that will constantly produce birds.

Can I have coordinates to these locations

Knew someone would get a kick outta that

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I don't necessarily have a tree but I do have properties that produce really consistently. Where I hunt in southwest pa it's mostly private ground and the spots aren't very big. I don't know that I've ever killed from the same tree but I've definitely killed birds within 20 yards of a previous set.

There's a ridge bottom on a property I hunt that always produces. It defies the conventional wisdom that says it's difficult to call birds down hill. But every year I hunted that spot, gobblers showed at the ridge top and then headed down to the call. I don't really hunt that spot alone anymore, it has become a great "ace in the hole" place to bring the kiddos.

I have a few spots like that on the farms I hunt and kill birds every year from them, one has to be over 30 from the same spot that I take a lot of youth and new hunters too. 

Of course I learned from this and look for the same type set any farm I hunt, it's a killer combo when I find it!


MK M GOBL

I did until someone else found it.


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I had a location that produced for me a lot of years in SD BLACK HILL. Until they logged that area and put a road right through under where the roost trees used to be. 


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Quote from: Cottonmouth on April 06, 2022, 04:55:38 PM
Terrain changes here all the time due to timber cutting in Mississippi. We focus on food plots and ridges where they want to be to strut.

Exactly what I was thinking. Tree better not be over 25 yrs old anywhere I hunt in MS or it's gonna get cut. It's actually quite sad and depressing.  I know my kids will never get to hunt near where we live with any consistency because it's all getting turned into short rotation pine thickets.

Yes, in multiple states and that's what I call them... killing spots. As a bowhunter the setup is key and when I find a spot that works it often pays to go back.

Central KS walk-in, 4/9/15

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Same place, 4/9/18

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No but i wished I did.

Mulberry tree down by the creek. Ive killed alot of turkeys sitting against it. Ive also sat other people against it and called from a walnut just behind it and had them harvest.
My best deer tree is 13 yards away.

I did at one time.  Two years in a row during the late morning early in the season I killed a boss gobbler sitting under the SAME tree!  Each one dropped dead within feet of the other the year before.  My how things have changed.  The land was sold to a new owner and he basically added on to a little cabin and made a big house and just about cleared the land.  It was a great strut zone, gone forever now.  It was a great find while it lasted. 

My uncle has a 4 acre field in the middle of his woods, with 2 hardwood ridge surrounding it. Lots of turkey's have died in and around this field.

 I have a copy very productive spots.

I've got a spot on public land that abuts a Scout property so all that side is posted. I just sit on the public land side and call toms to my side got birds there 3 of the last four years. Sometimes I go late morning and I have the place all to my self.  :OGturkeyhead:

I have had two so far. One was on a small piece of property we use to own but it was simply because it was the only spot you could set up. It was just a log pile from when the place was clear cut but it sat on the outline of a food plot. There was an indention there and a big tree to put your back against where you sat lower than ground level. It was a really good hiding spot I bet we killed 10 gobblers from that one spot. I have another one now that is a little hill in a fire break that has a huge swamp bottom below. I sit on the hill and usually they walk up either side of it. I have called up birds to that hill multiple times the last few years. The birds cannot see where i call from unless they walk up on the hill which puts them in shooting range.

I have a few honey holes that produce year after year. Great places to bring new hunters and kids.

I have a spot on a crick that I've gotten 5 20+ pound gobblers. I built a blind in the brush during the summer. Last year, a mountain lion was killing turkeys on the crick. I sure hope he's gone! I saw him in the cliffs watching me last spring. This spot brings in birds consistently.

Quote from: Meleagris gallopavo on April 07, 2022, 06:04:26 AM
I did until someone else found it.


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Lol..x2

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I have a huge oak on our farm in between two corn fields that a bird has died at on opening day for the last 8 years. I hardly ever hunt the farm anymore because I like going into the mountains on public but for new hunters and youth it's almost a gimme. My daughter missed a gobbler from it this morning.


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I have one spot on the side of a field location,  this year i killed number 14 from this same spot in the field over the years. It's my main go to spot.   

Oh yeah!  I've got a Honey Hole, and it has been my go-to spot for 16 seasons.  After a short while, it just did not make sense to go anywhere else.  Most years, if I have the opportunity to fill both tags, both tags get filled at the Honey Hole

We have an abandoned county road running through the property.  The old fenceline with massive White Oaks line one side.  There are fields to either side.  My Honey Hole sits on the fenceline such that I have shots out into the pastures on either side.  There is a little knoll that sits just to the north, and this high spot seems to attract the birds.

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That board you see in the center of the frame is the "fake stump" I put up last year.  There was an old tree that I'd been putting my back against for over a decade. It blew down.  I put up the plywood so I would have a back rest.

I am finding out that there are at least there are at least 3 other honey holes on the property.  Right now, my two sons have commandeered  one each.  These are spots I was utilizing previously. 

So what makes it a honey hole?  I've got 200 acres to hunt.  For a long time, I did what most guys do:  go out and listen for a gobble and then set up in a strategic location  close by.  Over time, I realized that I was putting my back against the same tree.  It was just a matter of looking for that best see-and-not-be-seen vantage point.

I have a giant oak tree on our family property that has seen plenty of birds meet their demise. From youth hunters, to my father and I together, and even myself. Its located in our river bottoms about 125 yards from a roost area that is used almost every single day of the year by the main flock on our property. Its also in a great location to sit and listen for a mid morning tom. I find my self gravitating to it whenever I need a moment of reflection or peace and quiet as well. I wish that oak tree could talk, because it has probably witnessed better than anyone the evolution of myself as a turkey hunter since the first time I sat down at its base. These great memories I have with great friends and especially my father are at that tree, and always will be.

the only thing I kill are all stars at Waffle House

Quote from: soILstrutter on April 25, 2022, 10:14:16 AM
I have a giant oak tree on our family property that has seen plenty of birds meet their demise. From youth hunters, to my father and I together, and even myself. Its located in our river bottoms about 125 yards from a roost area that is used almost every single day of the year by the main flock on our property. Its also in a great location to sit and listen for a mid morning tom. I find my self gravitating to it whenever I need a moment of reflection or peace and quiet as well. I wish that oak tree could talk, because it has probably witnessed better than anyone the evolution of myself as a turkey hunter since the first time I sat down at its base. These great memories I have with great friends and especially my father are at that tree, and always will be.

My killing tree is very similar. It's had many of firsts. My first bird, my first bird in my own, a girl friends first bird, my daughters first bird and my biggest local buck. My father is gone now but when I sit against that tree I enjoy reflecting.  It was a leased field of ours for years and a couple years ago my brother and I bought it and it will be my daughters some day. It will be hers to do what she wants with it but I want my ashes under that oak in the corner of the field where I've spent so much time and had so many great memories!


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Yes, I have a spot where I've killed 3 birds and others have also killed. It's the perfect deer funnel and works on the gobblers as well. A couple good bucks have been killed there and I've seen the biggest deer of my life there as well.


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Quote from: bushangler on April 26, 2022, 11:34:12 PM

Quote from: soILstrutter on April 25, 2022, 10:14:16 AM
I have a giant oak tree on our family property that has seen plenty of birds meet their demise. From youth hunters, to my father and I together, and even myself. Its located in our river bottoms about 125 yards from a roost area that is used almost every single day of the year by the main flock on our property. Its also in a great location to sit and listen for a mid morning tom. I find my self gravitating to it whenever I need a moment of reflection or peace and quiet as well. I wish that oak tree could talk, because it has probably witnessed better than anyone the evolution of myself as a turkey hunter since the first time I sat down at its base. These great memories I have with great friends and especially my father are at that tree, and always will be.

My killing tree is very similar. It's had many of firsts. My first bird, my first bird in my own, a girl friends first bird, my daughters first bird and my biggest local buck. My father is gone now but when I sit against that tree I enjoy reflecting.  It was a leased field of ours for years and a couple years ago my brother and I bought it and it will be my daughters some day. It will be hers to do what she wants with it but I want my ashes under that oak in the corner of the field where I've spent so much time and had so many great memories!


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Its amazing how one place can hold so many memories. And of all places, a tree. not a home, a business, or sports field; a tree on a piece of dirt. ;D Us turkey men are a different bunch One day, I hope my future kids can take their first bird from that tree as well!