NiteRunner Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 How will you be trying to take down a gobbler this year? Any Particular way you favor? Run & Gun? Sit & Call? Pattern Them? Etc, Mostly Run & Gun, and Sit & Call for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Whatver the situation calls for. I could type all day and not list all the ways I've used to seal the deal. Just whatever it takes. I guess you could call my strategy the "Git 'er Done" method. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
M00N Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? The way our group hunts in the spring season is we scout pre-season and try to learn their habits a bit. Then we come up a day before the season and single out a particular bird to watch where he roosts that night or where his current strutting zone is. If where he roosts is out of a legal hunting zone we'll setup a blind by his strutting zone or somewhere we think he'll travel instead for the next day. We'll either be blind still hunting the birds based on patterns or if the bird we're after gets harvested or disappears we may walk and use a locator to find another. Once we find another we try to estimate where the bird will be heading and we position ourselves to where we think it is headed and try to call it in to us hoping we guessed correctly. We never stalk turkey sounds nor turkeys, since it's illegal during our Spring season in this state to stalk turkeys. Edit: I edited this to reword it since it caused issues because people have different definitions for each method of turkey hunting and not everyone has the exact same definition. I didn't want to mislead or start an argument on what the correct definition of any of the hunting methods listed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Just like Strut said...whatever it takes. I do a lot of turkey hunting before work so most of the time I locate the turkeys prior to the hunt and sit and call the next morning. If I don't seal the deal within the first little bit after fly-down, I slip out the leave them alone. If it's the weekend and they get by me after fly-down, I'm on the move. I also pattern them during the early season too. Their feeding habits and traveling patterns are somewhat more predictable before the mating season kicks in. Best of luck with whatever strategy you use this spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] Run and gun hunting isn't legal to do in spring gobbler season in this state. Stalking any turkey during that season will get you in serious trouble. [/ QUOTE ] Sure it's legal. I think you have the wrong idea of what the "run & gun" method is. "Run & gun" is when you cover large amounts of distance in a msall period of time, stopping to call or locate at some interval. When you "strike" a gobbling bird (get him to respond to your calling) you set up and kill him. It does not involve stalking (which is illegal in PA). Only thing you have to remember in PA when on the "run & gun" is to wear your wonderful blaze orange hat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] Only thing you have to remember in PA when on the "run & gun" is to wear your wonderful blaze orange hat. [/ QUOTE ] Really??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Only thing you have to remember in PA when on the "run & gun" is to wear your wonderful blaze orange hat. [/ QUOTE ] Really??? [/ QUOTE ] Yep. Really. A couple idiots each year seem to have a hard time differentiating between a 20 lb. featherd critter and a 6 foot tall dude in camo. So rather than hang a guy up by his toenails for mistaking a man for a turkey.......they make 500,000 hunters wear a blaze orange hat while moving. What more would you expect from a state that won't allow #2 shot for fall turkeys but a .460 Weatherby is legal?????? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbeard Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Hunt and Hope Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wtnhunt Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? My turkey hunting because I have a limited area to hunt them in will be most likely somewhat similar to deer hunting and patterning the birds and then sitting and calling or sitting and waiting with minimal calling. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] Hunt and Hope [/ QUOTE ] I like it!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rut-Nut Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Pray, then hunt (while praying)! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
huntn4bucks Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Hunt and Hope [/ QUOTE ] I like it!! [/ QUOTE ] Me too. I guess I use that strategy more than any. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PAstringking Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? roost em...call em...shoot em....eat em!! seems to work every year Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhino Posted February 9, 2007 Report Share Posted February 9, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Hunt and Hope [/ QUOTE ] I like it!! [/ QUOTE ] Me too. I guess I use that strategy more than any. [/ QUOTE ] Same here and hunt to me means do whatever feels like the right thing to do at the time. Like Strut, I could write forever on different things I've done hunting turkeys. BTW...Patterning is just part of scouting turkeys to me. Even though patterning starts before the season, it never ends until the season closes or you're limited out...whatever occurs first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Squirrelhunter91 Posted February 10, 2007 Report Share Posted February 10, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Mostly what we do is run and gun. It's proved successful for the past three years. Fall and spring. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ravin R10 man Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? prob put up the double bull and practice my patetience..if that dont work, maybe run and gun, or try to get in front of them when I spot them feeding.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slughunter Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? I got a new spot to hunt, every day there are atleast 30 turkeys in this one particular feild all day. they always come out at the same spot so Im going to do a little calling and wait for the big toms to come out. hopefully im sucessful -shane Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nut Posted February 11, 2007 Report Share Posted February 11, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] Whatver the situation calls for. I could type all day and not list all the ways I've used to seal the deal. Just whatever it takes. I guess you could call my strategy the "Git 'er Done" method. [/ QUOTE ] Same here Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Born2Hunt Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? [ QUOTE ] [ QUOTE ] Whatver the situation calls for. I could type all day and not list all the ways I've used to seal the deal. Just whatever it takes. I guess you could call my strategy the "Git 'er Done" method. [/ QUOTE ] Same here [/ QUOTE ]same here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
elnor Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? I start the season off hunting some family land in southeastern Oklahoma in the foothills of the Ouachita Mtns. We know the strut zones and roost areas from previous years, so we get in early in between roost and strutting/feeding areas and go from there. If I'm lucky enough to fill my two tags for that county/region, then I'll shift to a different area of the state to try to get my final, third OK bird. But I haven't been that lucky, yet... :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nick Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? I have had great success with the run & gun. There are a ton of birds in the area I hunt. I usuaully get deep in the woods to a spot an hour or so before daylight and wait for the birds to start gobbling on the roost. I try to get to the closest bird and cut out all obstacles between us and set up...If he starts heading away or has hens with him, I'll move on to a different bird. I continue locating birds and closing in until I can get one to come to the call close enough for a shot. There has been a couple times where I gave up on 6-8 birds until I found a hot one that came in. I have killed my bird opening day the 3 years I have hunted this public land. Two of the three times it was 3:15pm and 4:30pm before I actually connected. But my persistence has always been rewarded with mature toms. Stay consistent and hunt as long as legally possible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest psefirestormlite Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Run and gun is my favorite. I like a little challenge when I'm hunting for turkey. Those pop up blinds make it a little to easy when your turkey hunting. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dukey Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? Sit and Call, and Run and Gun. I like to mix it up a little, but y favorite would have to be sitting and calling, I usually get out to my spot around ten and start calling...I love gobblers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
woodsman2230 Posted February 12, 2007 Report Share Posted February 12, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? It depends....I might have to use all of them. But my favorite is Run & Gun Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dodgeman1 Posted February 13, 2007 Report Share Posted February 13, 2007 Re: What\'s Your Strategy? I use all of the strategies as well Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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