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If money and time were no issue what state would you go and hunt if you could pick any?

For some reason its Wyoming, Montana or Idaho for me. For some reason the terrain and just vast views you could see would be freaking awesome to hunt in.
 
After hunting and killing a bird in NE last year, I have fallen in love hunting out west. Going to hit SD and WY this spring
 
I've hunted them in NE, SD and KS. All beautiful places to hunt but I'm really wanting to do a backpack hunt into a wilderness area out West. Arizona is likely the only place I could do that without digging to deep into the process.

This would be a time factor for sure as it wouldn't cost all that much, all things considered.


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Out west and the Great Plains chasing the white tipped Merriams is some of the best country side you'll ever see. The land is as vast and open and empty of people as you could imagine.
Hunting the swamps of south Florida is also a pretty place and fun hunting with lots of different wildlife and things to see.

But if I could hunt anywhere in the world, it'd be after an eastern gobbler in the hardwoods on a ridge somewhere around here. I'd rather kill one Eastern in Alabama or Tennessee in one season than 12 gobblers from 4 different states out west.


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South Dakota for me...never hunted turkeys out there. In fact I've only turkey hunted in Indiana and Tennessee, but my dream would be SD.
 
Geez, I just dont have much desire to hunt any birds other than Easterns. No desire for a slam, no desire for a super slam, no desire for a US slam. I just want to hunt Easterns.

I couldn't imagine a better place to hunt them than the farms I grew up on in TN, even tho we didnt have birds until I was a young adult.

That being said, I'd love to hunt Easterns in any state that has a high density. Nothing like hearing 10 birds on the roost and picking which one to go after, and while working him, hearing 3 or 4 more off in the distance. If the bird you're working gets hung up, no worries, just go on to the next one. No pressure to be perfect, just converse with as many toms as possible in a single day.

If I were to go on a destination hunt for scenery first and hunting second, it would probably be New Zealand.

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megalomaniac":1ghvxaun said:
Geez, I just dont have much desire to hunt any birds other than Easterns. No desire for a slam, no desire for a super slam, no desire for a US slam. I just want to hunt Easterns.

I couldn't imagine a better place to hunt them than the farms I grew up on in TN, even tho we didnt have birds until I was a young adult.

That being said, I'd love to hunt Easterns in any state that has a high density. Nothing like hearing 10 birds on the roost and picking which one to go after, and while working him, hearing 3 or 4 more off in the distance. If the bird you're working gets hung up, no worries, just go on to the next one. No pressure to be perfect, just converse with as many toms as possible in a single day.

If I were to go on a destination hunt for scenery first and hunting second, it would probably be New Zealand.

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The "slams" and infatuation with killing different subspecies doesn't do much for me either. And I think of Eastern as my favorite, but I've never hunted the others. Except Nebraska. Officially considered hybrids. I'm comfortable saying I killed a rio out there, but I digress. But I love hunting different terrain and figuring out turkeys in new places. So I definitely want to hunt them in lots of different areas, but not because of the subspecies they represent.
 
the Farm I grew up hunting in Missouri. Shot my first Deer, Turkey, and numerous other animals there. It was just a hardwood ridge,with some hollers on each side, but each one of my family members had a different holler we could take off and chase birds or deer in and I absolutely love it. If I ever win the lottery, that will be the first place I go and try and buy.
 
I don't get too carried away by dreaming about hunting the the typical subspecies of turkeys in the USA. I've hunted a few of them already and a trip to do it really isn't that hard, or expensive to do. If I was to really want to do something cool, I'd travel to the Yucatan and hunt ocellated turkeys. I really think that's be fun.
 
You guys who don't care about chasing anything but easterns are really missing out... It isn't all about the 'killing' or 'slamming' for some of us, but more about the experience. Chasing them at nearly 9000' in elevation... Seeing species of wild animals you've never seen before...Wondering around majestic forests where you have no clue what half the tree species are... Finding elk sheds...Meeting other rednecks 1,500 miles away...'Celebratory' breakfasts at greasy mom and pop diners to experience the local cuisine. Visiting National Parks and other locations of interest along the way.. I could go on and on, there are a ton of aspects that make it awesome besides the killing part.

And I can guarantee you this.....Yeah, some of the other subspecies may be a bit 'easier' to kill (although I hesitate calling any turkey easy, almost seems disrespectful to me),but once you learn their habits, tendencies, how they use their habitat and terrain.. Just like with easterns, you'll become more effective at hunting them. Do it enough, and it will improve your game for these easterns at home too. Regardless of the subspecies, you can never learn too much about turkey.
 
Agree with several others. I love chasing the rolling hills and woods and hollers easterns, and playing the chess match with them, and I would love to chase a black wing Osceola in the future. Other than that, if I ventured to other areas to shoot a turkey, it would be as much for the walk in the wild and viewing the beautiful country as it would be for hunting/shooting the turkeys. I have several buds that have killed them in the west, midwest and northwest and they tell me those hunts will lift your self esteem when it comes to "killing" turkeys (lots easier than pressured easterns in the hardwoods). My .02
 
th88":2k608jul said:
You guys who don't care about chasing anything but easterns are really missing out... It isn't all about the 'killing' or 'slamming' for some of us, but more about the experience. Chasing them at nearly 9000' in elevation... Seeing species of wild animals you've never seen before...Wondering around majestic forests where you have no clue what half the tree species are... Finding elk sheds...Meeting other rednecks 1,500 miles away...'Celebratory' breakfasts at greasy mom and pop diners to experience the local cuisine. Visiting National Parks and other locations of interest along the way.. I could go on and on, there are a ton of aspects that make it awesome besides the killing part.

And I can guarantee you this.....Yeah, some of the other subspecies may be a bit 'easier' to kill (although I hesitate calling any turkey easy, almost seems disrespectful to me),but once you learn their habits, tendencies, how they use their habitat and terrain.. Just like with easterns, you'll become more effective at hunting them. Do it enough, and it will improve your game for these easterns at home too. Regardless of the subspecies, you can never learn too much about turkey.
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Shhhhh don't let all the secrets out.. I still love those hard gobbling easterns though the western birds are crazy and aren't as easy as some might think.
 
Uncle Jesse":yz38h0u4 said:
timberjack86":yz38h0u4 said:
Mexican Goulds
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Is that them weird ugly turkeys?
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Goulds are the prettiest turkeys there are. They have two extra tail feathers so their fans look and are noticeably bigger, and they have snow white tips.

You're thinking about the occelated turkey in central america. They look like a peacock and a guinea chicken had a baby. But with colorful warts and 2" spurs.
 
It's has nothing to do with sub species or record books for me. Just the shear awesomeness of hunting terrain so vast and different like WY or Idaho.
 
REN":2gzcbhmx said:
It's has nothing to do with sub species or record books for me. Just the shear awesomeness of hunting terrain so vast and different like WY or Idaho.
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Yeah this^ I like that thinking. I've been all over the East but never seen anything west of the Mississippi except I've been to Alaska but that's a whole nother world
 
I've never hunted the oscellated or the Gould's. But to me any experience I've had outside West Tn have all been equal. The diversity of the terrain is what makes the hunt. I love em all lol
 
My Grandfather's old place we had as kid! Miss that place so much and would love the opportunity to hunt there again.


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Although I would like to extend my season one year by hunting public ground Eastern's up North, nothing rivals the challenge of calling to the gun, these hard pressured Southern Gobblers. Pressured Turkeys are tough to kill, no matter where you hunt them, but I've been out West, and them Turkeys out there are not in the same "class" of education as these Dixie Turkeys. Might have something to do with them not roosting to far from the domestication tree :) I'll be heading deep South, to hunt some of the toughest Gobbler's there are, at least in my opinion, starting next Saturday. No other place I would rather be the first week of March, than in a 60+ year old Cypress Strand, deep in the Big Cypress Swamp. Good luck to any of you "Old Schooler's" traveling South next week. Hunt 'um up ;)
 

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