dodge4x4 Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Ok guys, this year durring bow season for deer, I was also hunting turkeys. I decided I didn't want to hunt deer one day (don't mob me guys, I don't know what came over me!) and so I was just turkey hunting. I didn't have the doghouse ground blind with me to use, so me and my uncle thought we would hunt the turkeys out of a treestand so we wouldn't scare them as much when we draw back. We each got one, from different treestands but we did. What do you guys think about hunting turkeys from treestands? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NY911Bowhunter Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Re: deffinately different! Fall, when they are NOT coming to mating calls, it works fine. Many turkey hunters just hunt the spring, using repeatitive mating calls. It would alarm a gobler who is close to keep hearing these calls from a tree, not the ground. Ideally, setup in a treestand between a caller and a bird. have the caller call (what else would they be called then!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nut Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Re: deffinately different! I know a couple of guys who have a turkey tag in their pocket while bowhunting deer. One got a turkey while doing this. I believe you could pattern turkeys for the fall and set up on travel patterns. LOL I try this on the ground and they always go the other way. I would not do it in the spring since it is so much fun calling them in when they are hot. However I do not think I would do it in the spring Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Strut10 Posted January 16, 2005 Report Share Posted January 16, 2005 Re: deffinately different! Just remember.........turkeys look up..........all the time. Deer look up sometimes. But turkeys are way, way worse. Here's one that happened to me several years back: Early bow season (leaves still on the trees and green) I had 3 or 4 hens work their way in behind me.......maybe 5 or 10 yards away. I was on the opposite side of a large poplar tree and 20 or 22 feet up. I had svereal leafy limbs between me & the birds and I was motionless. The lead hen picked me out. She was not horribly scared. She looked a loooong time then turned and fed off the other way. But she picked me off. O.K.......... Early morning, 5 weeks later: The rut was on. Same tree. I was watching a good scrape that had been opened 30 yards in front of my stand under a white pine. I had not seen or heard any turkeys from the stand since the hen had busted me. I hear steady footfalls crunching through the leaves coming through the white pines straight to the scrape. I get drawn and the crunches keep on coming. I'm imagining a good buck. But out pops a hen turkey (and turkey season is in!!). As quickly as she walked into sight, 30 yards away, and fast enough that i had no chance to get the pin on her, she slammed on the brakes, looked right at me, wheeled around and ran!!! Had to be the same hen. And she had remembered that spot for 5 weeks!!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbeard Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Re: deffinately different! Strut's right on the money about them looking up. Once while bow hunting deer five longbeards came thru the palmetto's. I just enjoyed the opportunity to watch their beards sway as we don't have a fall season. About 15 minutes later, a doe comes up and I take a shot of about 15 or 20 yards on her. She runs off, I get down and start searching thru the palmetto's for blood and my arrow when all of a sudden up comes one of those big toms. It nearly took my head off with one of his wings as he waited until I was nearly on him before he took off. Evidently he had seen me 15 min before and hunkered down. If I were you, I'd stick to sitting on the ground up against a big oak. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
redbeard Posted January 18, 2005 Report Share Posted January 18, 2005 Re: deffinately different! Got another amusing story about tree stand hunting turkeys...the old man that got me into hunting turks would sometimes sit in a stand. Once he was up a tree with decoys out on a old roadbed. Being many years ago, these decoys were the big ole plastic type. Well, he's sitting there in the late morning, when he spots two fellows in white t-shirts wacking brush with machetes and headin' toward the road bed. Ole Bill couldn't understand why they were out in turkey season in white t-shirts and remained still. Well, they came out on the road at one of Bill's plastic hens. One ole boy laid his machete on the hen's neck and about the same time, his friend said "Yonder goes another one of dem *(&^%^% (it ryhmes with a good jelly maker) and the boy with the machete raise it up. Ole Bill shouts in the nick of time "That's a 30 dollar hen your fixin' to behead." Bill said those boys nearly left their shoes they was so startled. "Oh Oh mister, we was just playin' and they run off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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