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Fields or forests???????
Fields or forests???????
Started by chatterbox, December 08, 2011, 05:47:57 AM
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chatterbox
Long Spur Gobbler
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Fields or forests???????
December 08, 2011, 05:47:57 AM
Gentlemen.
Where is your favorite place to setup on turkeys? Do you like to camp out on field edges, or are you more of a deep woods hunter.
My favorite is to hunt field edges overlooking known safe areas where turkeys will visit. I don't mean ambush situations, but areas where a turkey will not only answer your calls, but will feel safe traveling down to that area.
What do you guys like?
guesswho
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December 08, 2011, 07:49:20 AM
Up until about 10:00 a.m. I like the timber. After that I like to field hop, hunting the woods along the way.
If I'm not back in five minutes, wait longer!
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December 08, 2011, 07:59:32 AM
Where they are gobbling!!! I prefer big hardwood flats, but after spending some time out West hunting them on open farm ground I like that also.
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December 08, 2011, 08:31:01 AM
Decoys & fields are real killers ! I've had gobblers come from over 300 yds once they have spotted the decoys.
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December 08, 2011, 08:56:58 AM
timber for me but will go to where the birds are.i do like open areas on a rainy day
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December 08, 2011, 09:05:40 AM
All of the above with a cypress swamp thrown in there as well.
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December 08, 2011, 09:07:23 AM
Fields for me.
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December 08, 2011, 09:18:02 AM
Where ever he is roosted. If it is on a field's edge then that is where I will be, but if he is in the woods then that is where I will be.
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December 08, 2011, 09:20:24 AM
I like timber at dawn and then on up in the morning I like to hunt field edges and fields. Out west is almost all field hunting.
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#9
December 08, 2011, 09:58:52 AM
Very few of my hunting spots have any timber much thicker than a brushy draw, so I'm usually limited to hunting field edges anyway.
ctwny1
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December 08, 2011, 10:18:47 AM
Like woods up to around 9:30am....then edge of field.
Struttinhusker
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December 08, 2011, 10:21:25 AM
I put my ground blind in a somewhat open area between a thick timber on one side and pasture on the other. There are corn and soybean fields all around. This little area seems to be one of those safe places that the turkeys come through. I hunt deer in the same exact spot.
Wrangler95
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#12
December 08, 2011, 10:54:30 AM
I hunt woods and fields but fields with decoys is where I kill most of my turkeys!
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December 08, 2011, 11:10:00 AM
Wouldn't know how to hunt open ground. There aren't many fields in this part of the state.
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#14
December 08, 2011, 11:20:43 AM
I had rather be in the woods but will set up on a field if that is where he is roosted at first light. After 10:00 or so its all field hunting for me
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