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First Season Turkey Hunter, Any Advice?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 3189049" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>All good advice above, especially about learning to be more patient. It can be very hard to be patient enough.</p><p></p><p>More specific advice is often specific to the hunting circumstances, i.e. do you have lots of land to roam or only a few acres to hunt? Hunting fields or woods? Run & Gun style hunting vs. sitting in a blind?</p><p></p><p>For example, decoys are probably much more liability than asset if you're mainly hunting woods. Decoys <em>CAN</em> be more asset than liability if you're hunting fields, but are often a liability. Take note that many of the accomplished turkey hunters either don't or seldom use decoys.</p><p></p><p>If you want to learn more faster, you'll probably do so by not using decoys and not using pop-up blinds. If you want to kill your first turkey quicker, both a pop-up blind and a single hen decoy (if hunting a field) might be advantageous. Keep in mind hunting and shooting are two different skill-sets, and simply shooting a turkey coming to a decoy from a pop-up blind, may be more about shooting than hunting.</p><p></p><p>IMO, the quickest way for a novice to learn a wider-ranging turkey-hunting skill-set is to head out before daylight carrying nothing but your shotgun and a single turkey call. Really go hunting, and measure your success much by your enjoyment of the pursuit, and not just by whether there's any shooting.</p><p></p><p>The three biggest mistakes I see novice hunters making are</p><p></p><p>1) Being impatient</p><p>2) Over-calling</p><p>3) Over-emphasis on getting a shot</p><p></p><p>The gun, choke, and shells you're using make less difference than almost anything else. Most turkeys are killed under 35 yards. Buying into the marketing hype of long-range turkey chokes has caused many a novice to flat out miss his first opportunity at a big Tom strutting at 18 yards. In fact, if you're mainly hunting woods, you might increase your odds of actually killing a turkey by using a factory "modified" choke rather than the after-market "extra-extra-full turkey" chokes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 3189049, member: 1409"] All good advice above, especially about learning to be more patient. It can be very hard to be patient enough. More specific advice is often specific to the hunting circumstances, i.e. do you have lots of land to roam or only a few acres to hunt? Hunting fields or woods? Run & Gun style hunting vs. sitting in a blind? For example, decoys are probably much more liability than asset if you're mainly hunting woods. Decoys [i]CAN[/i] be more asset than liability if you're hunting fields, but are often a liability. Take note that many of the accomplished turkey hunters either don't or seldom use decoys. If you want to learn more faster, you'll probably do so by not using decoys and not using pop-up blinds. If you want to kill your first turkey quicker, both a pop-up blind and a single hen decoy (if hunting a field) might be advantageous. Keep in mind hunting and shooting are two different skill-sets, and simply shooting a turkey coming to a decoy from a pop-up blind, may be more about shooting than hunting. IMO, the quickest way for a novice to learn a wider-ranging turkey-hunting skill-set is to head out before daylight carrying nothing but your shotgun and a single turkey call. Really go hunting, and measure your success much by your enjoyment of the pursuit, and not just by whether there's any shooting. The three biggest mistakes I see novice hunters making are 1) Being impatient 2) Over-calling 3) Over-emphasis on getting a shot The gun, choke, and shells you're using make less difference than almost anything else. Most turkeys are killed under 35 yards. Buying into the marketing hype of long-range turkey chokes has caused many a novice to flat out miss his first opportunity at a big Tom strutting at 18 yards. In fact, if you're mainly hunting woods, you might increase your odds of actually killing a turkey by using a factory "modified" choke rather than the after-market "extra-extra-full turkey" chokes. [/QUOTE]
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