Yeah, no one, that I've ever met, likes to deer hunt turkeys. Sit still, don't move, wait, nothing but tweety birds and squirrels to keep you awake.
Lot's of sage advice so far.
1) Call to him, cut off his gobbles with your calling. He goes quiet, sit still -- hens come, he goes, he may come back about 9-10.
2) Get in the woods, long before the season, scout them, find out where they want to go --- just follow them, don't call, don't spook them (easier said than done) just let them go through their day. Find where he wants to be about 10-11-12, be there waiting - Ok, some call this ambushing, I call it woodsmanship.
3) Kill him in the afternoon going to roost.
4) Now, let me go old school on you. A long time ago, we had less birds than we do now. Yeah, we are talking a while ago. If you struck a bird at all, you stayed with him, because that may be the only bird near the area. That's how bad it was back then. You sat, quietly, very little calling, a cluck here, maybe 2-3 clucks, a purr every now and then, some scratching in the leaves. The only time we yelped is first thing in the morning, and very little of that!!!!!! I reverted back to that last year here in Bama, I killed all my turkeys by either soft clucks or only purring, period, nothing else.
It isn't fun deer hunting turkeys, but if you want to bring him in, you better do what others aren't doing.
