Anyone have advice for successful Fall turkey hunting? Never hunted them in the Fall before.
Find the food
Jake yelps, gobbler yelps, 2 Jake decoys in open area and be very patient. Lost call yelping will also help. I'm no expert, not even close, but Roger parks pot call and Donnie Richard's Gobbler box might entice a group of Tom's to your gun. Good luck!
Find food in close proximity to WATER in the East and you will easily locate turkeys.
After locating fall turkeys a cave man can kill them.
Sorry cave men, no offense meant.
Fall birds often have a pattern and a flock is hard to deter unless your in their general path. The other posters are correct, fall flocks are concerned with food and water before anything else. A traditional method is to bust flocks up and call them back in. The rub is getting a good bust. A hunter by himself has a hard time getting a good bust. Flocks tend to all go the same direction and will reassembly pretty quickly if they're close to each other. You can follow them and keep busting but it's a tough game. Pick the birds that go away from the group to target. If you bust gobblers it may take 2 or more hours for them to regroup. Super jakes are the most vpcal and easiest of gobblers to call with simply strings of gobbler yelps. Make long strings of gobbler yelps, ten or more yelps back to back. Other call are hen assembly yelps, kee kee runs and what I call chirps or soft musical clucks. Sometimes i use one sharp course cluck as a locator, that's what you'll get back and sit on it for a while. You may not get another answer but a bird may just show up. Fall birds are always moving, cover ground and find them. They may be on one ridge today and another tomorrow. It is not always like spring where they are roosted in the same spot every day, but if food is close they may be. Best advice is get in the woods at daylight and listen for roost talk.
All good to know. I've got a couple springs and a river runs against the property. Should be good places to focus.