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Think of spring turkey season as a baseball line-up. By the late innings, the top of the order has scored, while the bottom of the order has struck out and feels pretty discouraged. You are in the heart of the batting order, the hens are nesting, and every call you make is like a fastball in the middle of the plate. The game has changed in the late season, but you still can score by making these adjustments.
Turkeys will begin feeding in fields.Re-Scout your Hunting Area
As insects begin to multiply, turkeys will increasingly feed in fields. Since most hens should be on their nests, you will likely see multiple gobblers. Once you learn where turkeys are feeding and on what, you can set up and wait them out. Set up a blind or just sit comfortably in the grown vegetation. Either way, let the turkeys come to you.
Consider changing the striker or use a different call than in early season.Adjust Your Calling
By now, turkeys have heard about every call out there and can be alarmed by a loud series of yelps. Clucks and purrs are best at this time of year and if you can prompt a tom to gobbler, it will likely approach, especially if it’s a location it knows well. Switch your diaphragm calls and consider using an alternate striker for slate calls. Greg Wilson scored on the last day of the Kentucky season by using a Hempwood Call made by Gene Dunn of Murray, KY.
Taking a gobbler with a bow or crossbow requires pin-point accuracy.Sleep In
What? no 4:00am alarm? Turkeys aren’t deer and move throughout the day so it’s not like they are in their bedding area. Gobblers will have a core area they will navigate while looking for hens. In the late season, this also includes feeding so you can look for fresh scratchings in leaves. Gobbler droppings are large and shaped like the letter, “J”. If you find a few of these calling cards, you have a prime location to ambush an old tom.
A gobbler decoy with a natural fan is a tremendous allure.Switch Decoys
Despite the late season, your best bet of bagging a gobbler with a bow is by ambush. Just like becoming call-shy, gobblers may be decoy-shy as well, so change your usual set-up. A gobbler with a natural fan is a tremendous draw, just use extra caution where you place it. Make sure a hunter cannot sneak within range of you and fire at the decoy. Since vegetation is higher than in the early season, station your hen decoy in weeds where it looks natural.
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After a long winter and too many hours sitting on my backside, spring is a welcome change. It is also the same for whitetail deer as a chance to change their diet from winter long browse to succulent new growth.
This change in the diet to everything green also greatly increases their need for salt and minerals. To make this even more relevant it coincides with new antler growth for males, and females ready to birth a new year crop of fawns. These almost deer moms will soon be lactating to feed their newly born fawns.
I look forward to this time of year and getting back out in the deer woods to start my mineral sites.
I begin by freshening last year’s mineral sites by using a garden hoe to dig up some fresh soil and mixing into this fresh soil a pale of Lucky Buck Minerals
Over the years I have found Lucky Buck to be most productive in having deer utilize my mineral licks. The right mix of minerals and salt is particularly important to make your licks palatable for your deer herd.
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Friday afternoon I picked up my buddy Champ after his school let out. We went to my house and pulled together the blinds, chairs and other stuff we were going to need. We were wild turkey hunting this weekend.
Unfortunately, both of us slept completely through our iPhone’s alarms and we totally missed the gobbling and yelping happenings after daybreak.
My hunting buddy and grandson Champ and I maintain our vigil Saturday afternoon as Gobblers sound off from the west and south along the river where I live.But we still had turkey hunting work to do on two stand sites and got right on that. Afterward, we went to a place where I park to hunt a curve in the river where I’ve hunted successfully in years past. Champ set out two decoys, an erect hen and my Dave Constantine Jake.
I like to hunt this area late season because the hens have been sitting on their eggs and some of the eggs are hatching. That causes the gobblers to split away from other gobblers and they wander a fair sized area and gobble fairly regularly in hope of locating the last minute responsive hens.
Ofer the years I’ve had very good result at calling in these solo gobblers and put my turkey tags on several longbeards in the general area of where Champ and I are hunting. We heard several gobbles further out along the nearby river. All of them were quite a distance from us and my calling got some response gobbles but didn’t bring them into our immediate area.
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Personally, the late season is my favorite time of the wild turkey season. Truthfully, to me, it can be the most reliable time to get the spring season’s best gobbler action.
Opening weekends and the early seasons usually generate the lions share of the hunting activity in the turkey woods. Also, at that time mature spring gobbler populations are at their annual peak and hens and gobblers haven’t been yelped at by hunters for weeks. We call and they answer. But that is short lived.
Plus, in most areas of the country hens are still receptive to a gobbler’s attention. And longbeards can be very responsive to calling because of the change to the gobblers activity.
As the season winds down, hunters have killed many eager gobblers and also spooked and bumped plenty of others.
With increasing hunting pressure, gobblers can turn tight-lipped in a heatbeat. Late season foliage thickens and trees of all sizes green out a little more each day. (That is, unless you are a weekend only hunter and you miss the creap part of the green up.) But one thing up you won’t miss is the arriving flying insects. And for some, as the fishing gets good, their interests change as turkey hunting becomes more difficult, many folks have scratched their turkey itch.
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During March, around here, the bucks shed their antlers.
And just for grins, below is a picture of a young Longhorn steer that is wandering around the deer woods property. This bull is a youngster but he definitely has some weight on him.
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You can shoot Wild Turkeys from several different positions, beginning with Strutting and Not-Strutting. And both of those positions offer shooting opportunities that are from the angles of: Facing Away, Broadside as well as from the Front.
However, this video adds the Head Shot. Personally, I shy away from head shots. Their heads are moving most of the time and that greatly increases the chance that your arrow will nick the gobbler’s head instead of it making a killing hit.
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I clicked on the video below to see what this particular YouTuber thought the four types of turkey hunting were. It turns out that this guy steps out of the box quite a bit in this short video. Let’s call a spade a spade and tell ya that this video is super funny.
I’m not gonna tell you what he and his turkey hunting friends do and say, but it’s very funny and weather you are a new or veteran wild turkey hunter you’re gonna enjoy this.
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This spring has sure brought the rain around here. It is super green and deer are liking it a bunch. Below is a Video I took with my iPhone of a doe munching on all the new green growth. I’ve been seeing deer browsing nearby so I pulled my hunting chair against a fat tree and waited for some deer activity. And the deer did not disappoint me.
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Finding out the real deal about how good the hearing of wild turkeys is became quite a challenge. For starters, like baseline, wild turkey gobblers and hens can communicate with each other vocally as much as a mile away.
Actually, I already knew that. About 20 years ago I was hunting in a double bull portable ground blind and heard gobbles from as far away as I could hear. I took out a Woodhaven Doug Crabtree Signature v-cut mouth call and blasted away as loud as I could.
In a few minutes I realized that the gobbles were becoming even louder. Still faint really, but noticeably louder. I continued yelping and clucking with every bit of volume that I cold muster. Half and hour of gobbling and calling later I noticed movement on the far edge of the field, 1,000 yards away.
And I glassed 3 mature longbeards, gobbling away..
I grabbed a few more mouth calls and called. Call was easier now because I could see them and gauge their reactions. Soon they got to a long fence line that came straight to where my blind, and me, were waiting. Finally they were 100 yards away and they paused. I cut my volume and Cut excitedly. One of the gobblers pulled out ahead of the other two, hurry
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Every aniimal has five senses, and the wild turkey is no exception. What differs between each animal is the actual importance of each sense, which is based on how well-developed the sense is and each animals behavior. While humans use all five senses every day, wild Turkeys rely more strongly on three of the five.
To help us understand the five senses of the wild turkey, Bob Eriksen, retired regional biologist for the NWTF, ranked them in order of importance and explained how turkeys use each.
Vision
“Vision is used to locate food items, catch potential prey insects and keep safe while running or flying,” Eriksen said. “Wild turkeys have the ability to detect movement and assimilate detail very quickly. Their excellent daylight vision is often relied on when hearing is impaired by wind and rain.”
According to “The Wild Turkey; Biology and Management,” compiled and edited by Dr. James G. Dickson, wild turkeys have flattened corneas and can see colors to some degree. Their eyes are located on the side of their head, meaning they have monocular, periscopic vision.
“Humans have binocular vision and can judge distance quickly,” Eriksen said. “Wild turkeys overcome their monocular vision by regularity turning their heads to better judge distance. The Wild turkey also has much better peripheral vision than humans.”
The book mentions rotating their head allows for a 360-degree field of vision.
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The boss gobbler thundered several times before flying down. We couldn’t see it but anxiously awaited its approach. We had taken all the hunting precautions- rising early, sneaking into a known travel route from the roost, having a gobbler decoy staked out, and my best calls at the ready. However, our best-laid plans fell flat, and the tom and his hens took an off-ramp to a distant meadow. We sneaked, crawled, and slithered to within 100 yards of his strutting area, but he wouldn’t budge.
Western turkey hunting is often a cold affair.Tackle its Aggression-
I’m hunting in South Dakota where a gobbler decoy is often the best allure. The season had been open for two weeks and most toms had been called to or spooked from their roost. Normally, even buggered gobblers will attack another gobbler, yet the old turkey I was after had survived several seasons and wasn’t interested in mating games.
My TenPoint Viper launched at 430 fps and was topped with a Burris ScopeGeared for Quick Shooting
South Dakota has Rio and Merriam subspecies that exhibit similar behaviors. Once they leave the roost they may travel a mile and roam throughout the day. As a result, sedentary Eastern tactics rarely work. I love hunting from a blind, yet the wind frequently blows (Some would say constantly) and fabric flapping in the wind is a deterrent to usually clueless turkeys. The Burris Oracle X allowed me to instantly aim at unknown distances on turkeys that are frequently on the move.
Sevr Titanium heads offer a solid 2-inch cut.Go for the Body Shot-
If you have followed my turkey hunting posts in recent weeks you know that I’m a big fan of neck shots. However, on moving turkeys at varying ranges where I must hide in natural surroundings I planned to shoot for the vitals, often aiming just above and forward of the legs. Aside from striking the vitals, a hit in this location prevents the turkey from flying and hobbles it for easy retrieval. The blades of Sevr heads nest into the ferrul so they fly very accurately and aren’t affected by the prairie winds.
By late morning most gobblers have bred nearby hens and become easier to call.Plan B
Since we knew where the gobbler usually roosted, we returned in mid-afternoon in hopes of ambushing the flock. About an hour before dark, the big tom and three hens showed up at the same spot where I had tried to fan it in the morning. The gobbler strutted and circled for 20 minutes or so before making a beeline for the roost. Again we hoped that the boss tom would fight an intruder, but the big bird would not approach. My best shot was at 50 yards on a moving bird, not an ethical attempt despite my excellent equipment.
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In their new Video Sydnie Wells and Reagan travel to Nebraska to archery hunt turkeys. Last time we were here with Nate, CHief and Dave both scored their first wild Bradyturkey gobblers. Now it’s time for Reagan to bring home her first gobbler with a bow!
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Cindy Lavender, a long time writer for Bowhunting.net, is on Chauncey Outdoors this morning. TODAY! And you can hear her by clicking the Podcast Link Below.
Chauncey tells us: Introducing someone I should have had on a long time ago on Chauncey Outdoors Cindy Lavender is talking about bear hunting with a bow, her love of hunting and fishing and how every woman out there should get into the outdoors to whatever level they are comfortable with. In the last segment we’ll hear the Aiden fishing report and other outdoor news.
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Getting a grand slam of wild turkeys is quite an accomplishment. Doing it with a bow is an even greater challenge. Doing it with a bow in one season is a monumental task. But a double grand slam in one season with a bow is pretty ambitious to say the least. That was the challenge given to me by Robert Hoague. I was all for it.
Of course it all starts with Florida. If the two of us didn’t tag an Osceola apiece it just won’t happen because unlike the other 3 species there are no other states or seasons to hunt the Osceola. Our plans were made, we planned on hunting the earliest season in Florida. It opens first in south Florida. Our airline tickets were bought, car rented and I bought my 10 day non-resident hunting license and turkey permit online.
The night before our trip Robert called me. He was driving to Dallas for his early morning flight. He gave me the bad news. Our outfitter had changed his mind about the deal he previously offered us. His new deal wasn’t what was expected and wasn’t what we were told when we finalized the hunt. We mulled the situation over and decided not to go. A deal is a deal – Fred and I both agreed, a man is only as good as his word. We didn’t have a back up plan for the early season and got lucky on our first phone call.
Two weeks later Robert Hoague and I met at the Tampa airport and drove to Zolfo Springs, Florida to hunt with David Mills. Bowhunting wild turkeys, being what it is, is NEVER a slam dunk deal and I muffed my first close encounter. We were videoing. I had set our Double Bull blind up close to the decoys, too close. A big Osceola gobbler came running in from my left but I didn’t see him until he was dead on the decoys, four steps from the blind. This was my first hunt of the year and I had been too sloppy with my setup. The Double Bull Matrix blind was opened too much. When I started my draw it immediately spooked the gobbler. It scurried off and got behind some orange trees and I never got a shot. I was disappointed but had plenty of days ahead to get the job done.
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Wild Turkey Hunters go though 4 particular phases of the Turkey Season. The dates Matt Dale has selected depend on the region you hunt, so your dates may differ a little. Matt is going on historical data and many years of hunting wild turkeys in different states every spring. But this will give you a general ideal of what’s going on every spring, from the start to the finish. Check out other Dale Outdoor products at, https://teespring.com/stores/my-store…
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I just discovered the YouTube channel Bow Only. Last week they were in Nebraska bowhunting Merriam’s wild turkeys. As you’ll see when you check out their video below, they definitely did good.
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Matt Gregory takes us Bowhunting In Iowa during late April and and switches from hunting a roost area during the early morning and late afternoon time frames to a Mid Day bowhunt.
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The little known, but important FACTS that make a Turkey’s eyesight so incredibly good.
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