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Article #120: Basic Turkey Hunting Information: Knowing Your Prey and Their Behavior

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Basic Turkey Hunting Information: Knowing that fall season each day.
Your Prey and Their Behavior Turkeys are usually found in open, mixed
20th February 2006 hardwood and pine forests. Others are
Author: NS Kennedy scattered in brush land. Others prefer to
Fall was the preferred time to hunt wild roost in trees larger than the
turkeys by most of the famous old time surrounding vegetation and will often
turkey hunters and is still favored by choose place to stay on sites facing
many traditionalists. These turkey slopes where they can shelter from the
hunting experts liked it best because it existing strong wind. They will use open
was a lot more difficult and therefore fields and meadows as feeding and
more rewarding to call in an old turkey boasting sites and wooded areas are
in the fall rather than the spring. roosting sites. If few or no roosting
Gobblers in the late summer, fall and sites are available, the turkey may leave
winter become very solitary animals with the place and not use it.
very little interest in females. They do, Basic Turkey Characteristics
however, gobble in the fall and there Turkeys' ears are also placed on both
have been a few mornings in October and sides of their heads. And because they
November that you would think that it was have no outer ear to develop the sound in
spring with the huge number of gobblers one direction, they hear sounds all the
around. On rare occasions, gobblers will way around them. Sounds received by only
even come in strutting and gobbling just one ear can help the turkey find out
like it was spring. More likely though, which direction the sound comes out but
you won't even notice a fall turkey not any indication of distance. Turkeys
reacting to your calls. He will just turn around to be more alert.
appear silently, looking for With a highly developed sense of smell,
companionship with another long beard but they can determine the direction of
not really caring whether he finds it or danger by scent and wind direction. The
not. This is a real fall gobbler. clever beasts generally flee away from
The fall season has regained its the danger, not toward it. Besides their
popularity recently with the sense of smell, they rely heavily on both
ever-increasing numbers of turkeys. Over their eyes and ears to determine the
40 states now host fall turkey seasons direction of danger before they run away
and more and more hunters are discovering from it.
the excitement of hunting in the fall. Niall Barco has been learning about
Turkey hunting is a pleasurable and turkey hunting for five years.
enjoyable sport people are starting to Turkey-Hunting.info offers news, tips and
like. views about turkey hunting information.
This sport requires seperate permits for This article may be reprinted in full so
hunters during the fall, along with the long as the resource box and the live
applications for spring hunting permits. links back to Turkey-Hunting.info are
Turkey hunters are allowed only to take included intact. All rights reserved.
only one wild turkey of either sex during






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