Who taught you?

[KyScott]

Me and my buddies taught ourselves in the mid 80's when we were teenagers. Our Dad's never Turkey hunted because there just weren't any here in central Ky. As kids we were always in the woods and I honestly probably didn't see my 1st Turkey till I was in my early teens bowhunting and I was born in 1971. Don't know for sure but seems like I remember the Ky Fish & Wildlife making a push to introduce Wild Turkeys in our area in the early 80's.

[g8rvet]

Had a buddy warn me not to start, it would cut into my spring red fishing.  He was right. 

Mostly learned from the turkeys and they still school me on most days.  But Tom has to be right every day and I only need to be right once.  It is all relative, as my son and nephews have grown they think I know a lot about it, even when I tell them I don't.  They just see the beards and have eaten the birds with me. Fun to watch them become good turkey hunters on their own.  Probably had little to do with me and more with what they are figuring out on their own.  That is the fun of it. 

[brettdunn7]

My brother taught me what he could before he passed away last year. Got some good info from the hunting public also. This year will be the first year I'll go after some turkey on my own.


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[Hatchet Jack]

Self taught/magazine educated. Grew up in the Bronx until I was 14. At age of 10 the movie Jeremiah Johnson was release and I knew after watching that movie I would be a hunter. At age 14 my mother died and we moved to the Appalachian Trail area of Maryland were I still reside today. Not many people hunted turkeys back than and turkeys were scarce back in those days. I learned mostly from articles in hunting magazines along with a lot of trial and error.

[g8rvet]

Self taught/magazine educated. Grew up in the Bronx until I was 14. At age of 10 the movie Jeremiah Johnson was release and I knew after watching that movie I would be a hunter. At age 14 my mother died and we moved to the Appalachian Trail area of Maryland were I still reside today. Not many people hunted turkeys back than and turkeys were scarce back in those days. I learned mostly from articles in hunting magazines along with a lot of trial and error.

Buddy of mine where I grew up in Central FL-he and his family were from Lon GuyLand (that is how it sounds to me when they say it). Great Neck I think.  Anyhow, he attached on to my brother and I and we took him hunting and fishing everywhere, he was like 5 years younger than us.  We treated him like a little brother, picked on him a bit, stuck up for him a lot with the other kids, etc.  Now he is a grown man that runs a hunting website and is as hard core as any hunter I know.  And a dang good hunter. 

[Rzrbac]

My Dad didn't hunt so my grandpa would take me when I was young. It wasn't like grandpa would teach you, when we got to the woods we went our separate ways. Grandpa didn't hunt them like most, he was strictly there to kill for the meat. My uncle was/is a great turkey hunter. He was good to talk to but my family did not hunt together. I was strictly on my own. My uncle did give me a copy of a Ben Lee tape and that's how I learned to call. I had one mouth call and used it till it fell apart. I tried to rebuild it but broke the frame. I will say the turkeys taught me a lot as well. I didn't live in turkey country, just cotton country for miles with no timber for miles. Until I was old enough to drive, I usually got to hunt two Saturdays a season. I guess I was just blessed to have the opportunity to get to go and back then we had an abundance of vocal turkeys. Over the years I've been able to introduce some to turkey hunting and call in several First turkeys for people. Now my circle of turkey hunters is pretty small. That's what makes OG such a great place to "hang out".

[TKE921]

My Father-In-Law took me, taught me, and called in my first few gobblers.   I have since called him in a bird or two and just this year took him to FL for his first out-of-state turkey ever and his first Osceola.

[kyturkeyhunter4]

My cousin always took me turkey hunting when I was younger my dad loved deer hunting but never turkey hunted.

[High plains drifter]

I have a tip, for people learning to turkey hunt.Don't hunt with people who have no clue as to how to hunt them
I hunted with this older guy when I first started, and he really wasn't very good. He was a road hunter, and a poacher,  and really had no skill.When I got out by myself, I learned how to get big gobblers. Then I started watching these guys from back east
They didn't know it, but I learned a lot from them. They were very secretive about their hunting, but unbeknownst to them, they taught me a lot, so thank you, to them.

[RutnNStrutn]

The school of hard knocks!! I'm a self-taught turkey hunter, who got a few pointers from friends.

[CT Spur Collector]

Me........a good neighbor got me hooked. Other buddy made me teach myself to mouth-call, be patient and told me to hunt everyday. Been very successful.....never give up....you won't shoot em from the breakfast table!