| Turkey hunting is challenging, exciting and in some | | | | remember: your movement is more important; |
| cases becomes addictive. Turkey's senses are | | | | regardless of how well you are camouflage. It doesn't |
| extremely keen - even your heart pounding can | | | | make you completely visible. Even though you are |
| make the turkey vanish like a puff of smoke. | | | | camouflage, you are still an unnatural form in the |
| Basic help in turkey hunting | | | | woods. Movement is the greatest enemy of the |
| Before you can hunt a wild turkey, you have got to | | | | turkey hunter. A turkey can detect you 10 times |
| find them. The easiest way to do this is by locating | | | | faster than you sense the turkey.o The best |
| the general areas of the turkey's habitat.o Get a | | | | shotgun and ammunition for turkey hunting is the |
| good map of the area you plan to hunt.o Wave or | | | | combination that delivers a dense, hard-hitting pattern |
| use a locator call like an owl hooter or crow call or | | | | at 40-45 yards. Practice with a target that portrays a |
| even a turkey call to try to get a response. When | | | | turkey's vital head and neck area. These parts are |
| you hear a gobbler, mark the locator map.o Scout for | | | | the ones that you should be shooting. You should |
| the best location on foot. Check for signs of the | | | | have at least 8-10 pellets in the vital area at 40 |
| bird's scratches, droppings of feathers. This | | | | yards.o Do not hide so well that you cannot see |
| information can help you locate some areas. Check | | | | what is happening. Blinds are useful for the turkey |
| along mud holes, creek banks, pastures, log roads, | | | | hunter, but when constructed so well that vision is |
| fencerows etc. as many trips as possible.o Never try | | | | obstructed, it is no longer a blind, and it is a hiding |
| to get too close to the turkey. A turkey's eyes, ears | | | | place, as beneficial to the turkey as it is to you.o |
| and awareness are many times better than yours.o | | | | Cease from using gobbler calls. Although this call can |
| Choose a tree that is wider than your shoulders. This | | | | sometimes be productive, it is also very dangerous. |
| will protect you from other hunters that might come | | | | In areas where many hunters are located, you can |
| behind you and mistakenly assume that you are a | | | | attract hunters to you rather than turkeys.o Never |
| real turkey.o Camouflage is almost a must to avoid | | | | wear any red, white or blue clothes. These are the |
| being seen. Wild turkeys have such keen vision. Many | | | | colors of the gobbler's head - the main target of a |
| turkey hunters usually wear camo suit, cap, | | | | turkey hunter.o If another hunter is working a bird, |
| facemask, gloves, vest with many pockets to carry | | | | do not mess everything up by trying to call the bird |
| calls and maybe a snack. Also do not forget to wear | | | | to you or spooking the bird. This is very |
| dark colored socks so that when you sit down, they | | | | unsportsmanlike. The true and experienced hunters |
| would not show you. But the main thing to | | | | do not do that kind of thing. |