Hey folks! We are only a couple months from fall turkey. We are all out cutting, spraying, and seeding fields. Im sure some of you have started scouting like myself...so the question is...
Give you best elevator 10 second advice on fall turkeys...whether it be planting, scouting, hunting, setup...ect.
(Elevator advice as in...if I was to catch you on an elevator at.the national turkey convention and ask you for advice and you only had 10 seconds...or maybe one or two sentences)
Go!
Heres mine...get in the woods early season, find the nesting areas, start paying attention to movement patterns, know their areas and youll be on them come october (TN is oct-nov)
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Transition areas! Fall is a time of extremely plentiful food sources. My fall success went through the roof when I stopped focusing on acorns or crop fields and started focusing on areas where all things come together. A select cut, next to oak ridges close to ag is the trifecta!
Quote from: aaron on August 02, 2018, 10:10:00 AM
Transition areas! Fall is a time of extremely plentiful food sources. My fall success went through the roof when I stopped focusing on acorns or crop fields and started focusing on areas where all things come together. A select cut, next to oak ridges close to ag is the trifecta!
Good deer advise as well.
Save yourself a lot of work, scout the fields from the road, and try to figure out what they are eating.
what uncle nicky said, and get a good pair of boots or a good dog and trek till ya find where their hangin!
Get your gobbler/Jake yelps, clucks and gobbles locked in, also the Key Key run.
Denny Gulvas has an excellent fall turkey DVD.
Buy comfortable walking boots and put the miles down to find a flock. when you break them, make SURE you get a good break. Then just sit down and pick out which fish you wanna shoot outta the barrel.
Carry a quality long box: kee-kee runs, young hen yelps, jake yelps, raspy hen yelps, gobbler yelps, purr, cluck, even gobble on it if needed, and all on one call.
No need to bust 'em,just call 'em in.
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Find a state that has a Fall season. Nothing here yet but would love to give it a try if our numbers would allow it.
Go to the woods now and listen.
Walk
Walk some more
Walk until you can't go no more.
Repeat next day.
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Keep a close watch on where you are seeing birds. When October rolls around, send Uncle Nicky a PM, and he will bring his crackerjack turkey dog out and help you kill one. ;)
Don't start unless you're ready to be fully committed to walking long distances, being humbled often, cursing a lot, but seeing and hearing some of the very best that the good Lord put here for us to enjoy!
Oh.... and travel to different states to hunt as much as you can. There's nothing like killing birds in new terrain.
Good boots, scouting, and don't be shy with the calls.
Bust them, sit down and kee-kee run them right into your lap.
Every area has its own preferred fall food sources....take the time to really walk and find these sites...
Then alot of patience and a little calling..
Scouting for me as public land is my only option. Now Sterling Forest State Park in Orange County NY has FINALLY opened up the whole 22,000 acres for OCT 1st. Years ago it was NOV 1st- then last year- it was half the park that would open on Oct 1st. I have been writing in about this for years along with others. I will be in the South end of Sterling Forest this Oct 22nd, I believe is the NY opener. Both my brother inlaw and I have taken fine Fall gobblers in Sterling Forest at -#%^*!
Get a good dog. All fall bird hunting is better with a dog.
Don't much care what anyone says contrary to that. In fact, minus deer hunting, I'd say ANY fall hunting is better with a dog. Hard to beat the companionship of a good dog too. And if I ever get a chance to try late season deer down south with dogs, I'd likely change my mind on that as well.
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Look on the edges of grain fields early in the am, right after Sun up.