Turkey Hunting
PODCAST: Busy Morning
I’ve been down at Turkey Camp all weekend, and we’ve been up to a lot of things. This morning I got out early and managed to catch a gobbler and hen with my new sound rig. Sit back, plug in your headphones and have a listen. Gobblers and Hens at Broken Corners Here’s my new recording rig. Yes, that’s right. It’s a paint roller handle and an umbrella hat, but it makes a dandy parabolic mike. This post has already been read 6137 times!Views: 0 Related posts: Congrats shaman…you now carry a camo purse. Went scouting and never left the … More . . .
Personal Ethics in Turkey Hunting
It’s funny about turkey hunting. However, when I wrote The Role of Personal Ethics in Hunting , I was wearing my deer hunting hat. Now it is getting on towards turkey season, and I went back and read it again, and I realized there were a lot of things that had reversed themselves in my brain. I do not mean to say what I wrote back in January was wrong. It just does not fit turkey hunting. In turkey hunting, there is a lot of stuff that gets turned on its head. Deer hunting is a pretty wide-open thing. You … More . . .
Return to Turkey Camp
Originally Post #1 , “The Shaman Enters” at The Quaker Boy Forums 1/9/2007 The wind was stiff enough that it blew the door open as soon as it came unlatched. It was snowing lightly, but it wasn’t cold enough to stick. It was cold, it was muddy. It looked like the sky was going to open up. The shaman bolted the door and kicked a clod off his boots and surveyed the inside. In the murk, you could still see an open box of thirty-thirty and a broken grunt call on the dining table. An orange vest hung off the … More . . .
TreeRooster’s Tale– The Annual Safety Post
Originally published 2/18/2010 From TreeRooster at Turkey And Turkey Hunting Forum In the spring of 2005, I had just finished a turkey hunt in Colorado with my friend James a couple days earlier. James headed to Kansas for another hunt and I was on the road to Black Hills of South Dakota. As I drove near a cell phone tower my phone beeped. It was a message from my wife. In an emotional and broken voice she said; “Gary call me, Fred shot James” James was hit with a Remington #5 Hevi-shot from approximately 40yds (shooters estimate). He was just … More . . .
The shaman and the Old Turkey Hunter
I was over early to the old turkey hunter’s shop near Browningsville. It was still February, but almost not. It was past time for breakfast, but still time for a second cup of coffee. This was the perfect time for going visiting in the country. No one felt obliged to offer you a plate of whatever they had anymore, and no one felt bad if you said you were still full from your own. A cup of coffee is always welcome as is the company.
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My First Turkey Hunt
I’ll never forget the elation I felt as I set down a plate of pancakes for a friend on a Sunday morning in January and he told me of a place in Hocking Hills and a buddy of his. Five minutes later my buddy handed the phone to me. I was talking to the guy and he was telling me about his place, a 70 acre orchard. “I can’t wait for you to come.” said Gordon. “Those turkeys come in the Spring and knock down all the blossoms and then the dang deer come by in the Fall and eat … More . . .
Know Thy Game, Know Thyself
Everyone goes at turkey hunting a little different. One guy wants to take a gobbler only if he has called it into him. Another guy only wants to do it with his grand-daddy’s side by side. Another fellow only feels right if he’s spent $500 on ammunition and is wearing the latest camo pattern– vest and boots matching. Another guy only wants to saddle up his bird and ride it back to camp singing “John Brown’s Body.” We all look at this sport differently.
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Turkey Hunting circa 1942
Back when I first started turkey hunting, there was not a whole lot out there written on the subject. As usual, I turned to my trusty Outdoor Life Cyclopedia, published in 1942 for advice. The following is the entry I found. This and a couple of Ben Lee tapes constituted the sources for the bulk of the goo in my head when I first went out hunting in the early 80’s. One of the important takeaways from this tome is that turkeys will always travel to water when they first get going in the morning. Therefore, it is advised to … More . . .
Turkey Hunting Secrets
There are so many new turkey hunters out there this year, I thought I’d share a resource with y’all. I don’t know this guy. I know he’s selling stuff, but who isn’t these days? Here is Roger Raisch’s site. It has a bunch of free content, mostly geared to beginning turkey hunters. TurkeyHuntingSecrets.com He really does a good job of laying it all out. This post has already been read 490 times!Views: 3 Related posts: Know Thy Game, Know Thyself TreeRooster’s Tale– The Annual Safety Post TreeRooster’s Tale– The Annual Safety Post A Letter from Brian Lovett My First Turkey … More . . .
A Ninety-Niner’s Look at Turkey Hunting
Back last August, I felt compelled to write a Ninety-Niner’s look at Deer Hunting. A Ninety-Niner Speaks Out About Deer Hunting In case you are wondering, a Ninety-Niner is a fellow who goes the full 99 weeks on federally-mandated unemployment compensation and then falls off the back end, still without a job. Back then, at the end of the summer, the term was just coming into usage and I though it interesting that I had become an unwitting and unwilling part of American culture. I was too young to be a Flower Child. I was too old to be a … More . . .
Show a Little Compassion
One of my shaman buddies is all into compassion right now. I was watching his thread over on Facebook, talking about compassion. ” Compassion, compassion, compassion!” It hit me: how does compassion fit in with Turkey Hunting. You have to wonder some days why we go out and hunt turkeys. Our friends are right: it really is cheaper to go to the market. Turkey is about as cheap as it gets. It would seem just a little stupid to go out there and brave the cold and the rain and sleet and later the heat and the mosquitoes when there … More . . .
How to Work a Gobble Call
A quick lesson in how to work a gobble call.
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The Tipping Point
Every year I face a tipping point when all of a sudden I stop thinking seriously about deer hunting and start contemplating turkeys. If you had asked me a year ago where and when I might have that moment of transformation, I would have offhandedly said it would be at my laptop, looking out the dining room window at home on a cold frosty morning in January. That is where it usually happens. Something snaps inside of me and my inner serial killer starts thinking about birds. If you had told me I would be laid up at a Super 8 … More . . .
The Role of Personal Ethics in Hunting
It seems that every time I go and knock Ted Nugent, I get blasted for being un-American, against the sport of hunting, and a general waste of good air. So when I decided to comment on Ted’s latest missive on D&DH Ethics Shmethics, I figured it was time to take a new tack. In order to bang through all the hero worship and blind fawning from his acolytes, I figured it was time to try and put out something positive. Everyone hates complainers that don’t have a solution in mind. I need to pick up the ethical shovel and craft … More . . .
What Makes a Great Turkey Gun?
First off, turkey hunting is by its nature not all that demanding on guns. This is not wingshooting. This is not duck hunting. You make a shot, fill a tag, and that’s it. A cheap gun will do as well as the most expensive. Of all the systems I’ve tried, the pump is probably the best in my mind for weight, ease of operation and overall usability. I hunted with a semi for years. I’ve hunted with a bunch of others. Pumps have their problems, but they seem like the best for the job. Think cheap. A $150 pawn shop … More . . .
SuperCore Tags Out
For a textbook kind of morning, it was a cold one. 35F. It did not seem to bother the gobblers though. We were pretty well bundled up as we checked into the blind overlooking the Mother of All Honey Holes. Yes, we’d been there before. Yes, we had not seen much action out there so far this Spring. However, I figured that one side faced East into a pasture that got a lot of early morning sun. If the gobblers needed a spot to warm themselves, there was not any better to be had on the farm. SuperCore was looking … More . . .
SuperCore Scores in a downpour
When I got up this morning, I was hard at work trying to convince myself it just wasn’t going to happen. The lady on the weather radio told me it was raining, winds gusting to 25 mph, and 52F. That is not my idea of turkey hunting weather. I went out on the porch and got hit with stinging drizzle– not even the dogs wanted to go out. SuperCore was not all that enthusiastic either. After a strong cup of coffee, we decided it couldn’t be all that bad going out to Midway. At least there we would be in … More . . .
The Blind Squirrel Gets Ambushed — A Pre-Season Tale
I got to thinking about things as I was walking out this morning. This is still a week before the Opener here in Kentucky. You’re not allowed to use calls. Of course, you can’t carry a gun either. Still, this is getting to be one of my favorite times of season. It becomes a matter of “by woodsmanship alone” that a hunter gets in close to turkeys. For some of y’all, that might be anathema, but there are a lot of facets to this sport that are not to everyone’s taste. In the pre-season, one of the keys is that … More . . .
And a Good Time was Had By All
There is not a whole lot you can complain about when you finish off a season like this one. Angus had a good time. I had a good time. The turkeys had a good time. Nobody got hurt. I am starting to count down the number of KY Yute Seasons I’ll be hunting. Angus, soon to be 12, is my youngest. You can only hunt as a Yute until 15. #2 son, Moose, turns 18 this year and has to sit on the sidelines with the rest of the grown-ups, waiting for the adult Opener. Every year we go out. … More . . .
What Is the Hardest Part of Turkey Hunting?
From Turkey and Turkey Hunting The hardest part for me? That’s changed over the years. It used to be just finding birds. Then it became finding the time in my life to get out and hunt. Then it became making sense of what the birds were doing. That right there takes you through the first 20 years or so of my life as a turkey hunter. Now I have my own land, I get to hunt a minimum of about 10 days a year, and even though the turkeys still laugh at me whenever I go out, I am starting … More . . .
Finally!!!
I just sent SuperCore home. He was down this morning scouting with me. As you remember, SuperCore is the longtime friend that I coaxed into deer hunting turkey hunting. This is his first season. KY’s Spring Gobbler season doesn’t start until mid-April. I just wanted to take him out and let him hear some real turkeys. As it was last weekend, the morning flydown was a complete bust. We heard a few gobblers, but they were a long way off. About 9, we knocked off and came back to the house to warm up and get some coffee. Morning … More . . .
Disappointing Scouting Trip
I originally wrote this last Monday after my first weekend of scouting for the KY Spring Gobbler Season. Since then, I’m hearing back from folks that the general consensus around these parts is that the turkeys are out there, just not up on the ridges and they’re not hot and vocal as they usually are this time of year: March 22, 2010 This is my second weekend down at turkey camp this year. We’re in SW Bracken County, KY, up in the Trans-Bluegrass between Cynthiana and the Ohio River. I spent two fruitless mornings– only a few gobblers sounding off … More . . .
Distance: The Working Comfort Zone — Pt 2
From Turkey & Turkey Hunting flatrock9: I often wonder why I spend money on choke tubes and high dollar shells that are designed to be shot at extended ranges. I have decided this year that I am gonna get outside my comfort range some. I feel comfortable with what my gun can do out to 50-60 yards. If the opportunity presents itself and I can’t get him in my comfort range, I will try a 40-50 yard shot. See, that’s what I’m wondering too. My point in all this is we keep expecting them to show up at 50 yards, … More . . .
The Right to Hunt
From : The Right to Hunt Posted using ShareThis The Right to Hunt March 19, 2010 – 6:00 AM | by: Douglas Kennedy Turkey season opened in South Carolina this week, and like years past James Earl Kennamer, bagged a bird the first day. “Hunting is part of my life,” he said, as he waited for a flock early Monday in Estill. “It’s my touch to nature.” But these days when Kennamer straps on his cammo pants and loads his double-barreled Zoli 12 gauge, he can’t help but think of all of hunting’s regulations and limits, and he fears for … More . . .
Hot Wild Turkey Porn
I lent all my turkey porn to SuperCore, and then I got had a this sudden and insatiable craving for some over the weekend. All my Drury Brothers were over the river at SuperCore, all my good DVD’s and VHS tapes. So I decided to go on YouTube and see what I could find. “Turkey hunting” is a good search string. “Hot Wild Turkey Porn” is not. Yikes. This post has already been read 1005 times!Views: 0 Related posts: Know Thy Game, Know Thyself Educating SuperCore The Tipping Point My Life as a Turkey One Month to Go Strong Harvest … More . . .
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