Originally Posted by jlbuc10
Originally Posted by GomerPyle
Originally Posted by lectrode
My biggest takeaway from watching Daves videos is yeah, there calling is as good as it gets. But I have never seen anyone with the drive and tenacity that they have.Being at there spots hours ahead of time and hiking or bicycling for miles and being under turkeys before daylight. Day after day after day, Pretty impressive !


I don't mean this to take away from their calling or maneuvering skill by any means, because they're clearly better than most at both...........but...one think I noticed watching the 2018 videos is that they manage to just about always at least find a bird to fool with, if not a couple to choose from. It seems like there were very very few days last season where they "didn't hear or see a thing".....

Now, I'm certainly FAR from being a "good" turkey hunter, but I honest-to-God believe that even I'm "ok enough" that I could kill 2 or 3 birds out of 10 that I got to "play the game". Problem is, where I suck particularly badly is in the scouting/locating area. I've heard exactly 1 gobbler all season long...and he gobbled twice. That's it.

I guess my point is..........being the best caller and the best "tactician" in the turkey woods doesn't do you a lick of good if you ain't around any birds. Conversely, you can be borderline inept and still manage to kill a few if you're hunting every day of the season, and get to work a bird more days than you don't.

You know you can hunt the same turkeys they hunt right? In fact if you left Tuscaloosa the same time they start walking in youd prob be there by daylight. So maybe it does have to do with drive.


I hunt several different places, including places where other people have been seeing/hearing birds this year and where I saw plenty of sign and heard a few last year.......... I put in a good amount of miles, both driving and then walking.........just no luck.

After killing 2 last year, I joked with someone on here that I was "basically an expert" now if they wanted any advice. Fred warned that I'd just jinxed/cursed myself and I dismissed it. I think he may have been onto something, now.

Although, it also took me like 12 or 13 seasons of deer hunting before I got a shot at a decent racked buck, while other people hunting the same clubs/leases were killing them regularly. I've often wondered if there's something about me that wild game can sense and just drives them away from me (a "curse"....an "aura"...."bad juju"....stinky britches.....whatever). Or maybe I'm just a terrible hunter in general.......or maybe both?

Last edited by GomerPyle; 04/22/19 02:47 PM.
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