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Originally Posted By: poorcountrypreacher
One thing that I have noticed about hunters that consistently kill a limit - they tend to have multiple properties to hunt. Almost any tract of land will have down years. If you limit yourself to one area, you are likely going to have some bad years. I killed turkeys on 4 different tracts scattered over 3 counties.

IMO, the most important factor in Turkey hunting success is access to a lot of land that has turkeys.



This and it also depends on how pressured the birds are. I found out 2 new guys were running birds all over the place before the season opened. They were practicing I guess.

This property of 350 acres used to produce 2 limits, one for my friend and one for myself almost every year for 15 plus years. It is just one of those places, however a few things have changed and fewer birds. My last limit was 2 years ago.

I might hang it up for a few years till I find another place to hunt.


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Here's my .02 as this was my best season yet and I hunted a lot more patiently. I only hunted two days and killed both of those days.
I don't have the opportunity to take off a week and turkey hunt so I made sure to pick the days that I thought would be the most productive. I constantly checked the weather and picked the days that were on the back side of cold/storm fronts, being warm and sunny. Those days always seemed the best for me and they were this season.
Second, I laid off calling so much. The toms weren't super vocal but would let out a gobble every now and then. I would do the same. They wouldn't give an immediate gobble to a yelp so I would hit the pot in the same manner. If I heard a gobble, I would wait about 30 seconds and just do a soft 4 note yelp. And sure enough I would get a gobble about a minute later and he would get closer and closer. When I knew he was within 100 yards, I would shut up and wait...he knows where his girl is at. Sure enough he would pop up and it was game on.
And just like others previously said, the birds were on my property this season. Last year they wouldn't cross the road. This season was a whole different pattern and I got lucky.

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Originally Posted By: poorcountrypreacher
One thing that I have noticed about hunters that consistently kill a limit - they tend to have multiple properties to hunt. Almost any tract of land will have down years. If you limit yourself to one area, you are likely going to have some bad years. I killed turkeys on 4 different tracts scattered over 3 counties.

IMO, the most important factor in Turkey hunting success is access to a lot of land that has turkeys.


Yes Sir!!!!

Good turkey hunters learn by fooling with lots of gobbling turkeys.

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