Would someone please explain the dog method of turkey hunting. Had never heard of it.
The short course on it is that it's much like hunting with any other flushing dog.......say, for pheasant..........except it's for turkeys. The dogs generally quarter fast and fairly far out. Most bark during the flush. And rather than shooting off the flush........which can occur totally out of sight of the hunter........the dog returns to the hunter and lays totally still and quiet beside him (maybe backed into a camo sack with just his head sticking out or maybe just low on the ground) as the calling starts. A lot of turkey dogs will locate downed birds and some, even retrieve.
The dogs can be about anything if you train them right. But the Appalachian Turkey Dog (somebody previously mentioned the late John Byrne of Virginia) is a specially bred line.......a mix of a Plott hound, setter and pointer.
I'm no authority on it. But I know some.
LFC could probably fill in the blanks I missed.
