Home Forums Birds & Dogs Turkey Hunting Teach me to hunt turkeys

I didn't read all the posts so this may have already been said but when calling Turkeys don't call and then get up and move for at least 20 to 30 minutes. I have had them come in silently and then start gobbling when they were twenty yards out.

In Colorado I did really well down around Wetmore, west of Pueblo, in the Wet Mountains. Have not been there for a long time as I moved but it was a good place to go in the late eighties and early nineties. It is worth checking out the public land areas down there. Call the game warden in that area.

If you think someone on the internet can teach you how to hunt turkeys you are in sad shape.

If you get a gobbler to respond, but he will not come all the way in, take you hat and start beating the ground - like two Toms fighting and he will come a runnin'

Started hunting them about 1993. We are allowed 2 Toms per spring season. Have missed very few seasons and filled both tags most. What the guys are telling you is quite accurate especially the need to master a call and be patient.
Those birds are rather dumb. When asked about turkey hunting my reply usually is, "I GO OUT EVERY SPRING AND GET OUTSMARTED BY THE WORLD'S DUMBEST BIRD."
If you hunt them you'll probably learn both how to harvest them and what it's like to be outsmarted by the world's dumbest bird.

If you want to hunt a turkey, set up in a location where the turkey want to go, you gotta be where the turkeys want to be and learn their patterns, do all of those and you are good to kill a turkey