Hunting a dust bowl ?

[ilbucksndux]

I have always see dust bowls and places where they dust often,but have never hunted any of these spots. Seems like a sit and wait kinda deal to me. Do you have any suggestions or strategy for hunting a dusting spot ?  Or should I treat it like any other sign I find and just use it to know turkeys are in the area.

[catman529]

I've been told a gobbler will use a dust bowl but have yet to see it. I have seen hens dusting with a strutter nearby and I have seen hens dusting alone. I've flushed hens that went up in a cloud of dust but I've never seen that when flushing a gobbler. So no I would not hunt a dust bowl, unless I had been following some field birds and knew where they dusted every day.


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[outdoors]

IVE SAT ON dust bowls WITH NO LUCK ...........

[renegade19]

I killed a jake one fall very near a dust bowl but it was right on the travel route to a roost.  I'd just treat it as good turkey sign and assume it indicates a flocks core area. 

[RemingtonRules]

I have had luck early in the season hunting these areas.  Once they go to nest, they are not dragging a gobbler along with them.  Usually it is the hens dusting.  Had luck on a bird recently that was with hens by hunting the spot they were dusting. 

[tha bugman]

good indication of birds in the area, but not an assurance that the ole claw toed, bearded devil is going to show up

[g8rvet]

Dust bowls let you know you are in the right area.  Most of the places I hunt, there is tons of sandy soil and other than letting you know there are birds nearby, they are not much more than a turkey track to me.  When I see them, I think of being a likely place that birds will be later in the day, when it gets hot.  Always has been when I have seen them there, but it may be coincidence. Not like I have seen tons of birds dusting though. 

They are NOT deer scrapes or rubs that will likely be checked regularly though, IMHO. 

[Greg Massey]

Dust bowls let you know you are in the right area.  Most of the places I hunt, there is tons of sandy soil and other than letting you know there are birds nearby, they are not much more than a turkey track to me.  When I see them, I think of being a likely place that birds will be later in the day, when it gets hot.  Always has been when I have seen them there, but it may be coincidence. Not like I have seen tons of birds dusting though. 

They are NOT deer scrapes or rubs that will likely be checked regularly though, IMHO.

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[Anobody]

I've called or killed 7 gobblers off The same dust bowl.  over The last 5 years almost every morning hunt the girls fly down and head almost straight to these bowls. Guess who follows....... 

Any time I find a bowl I mark it and see if there is good roosting near. If you have both you have a dynamite spot