Will your dog track a turkey? Sure worth a try if he will.
It's definitely a different scenario than tracking a deer but in certain situations, yes it's possible......like if its wounded up and cant fly.
Yeah, in my experience if a turkey is wounded he will fly if he can. If he runs away, he's probably not able to fly and could be located with a dog. But I don't know of many dogs in AL that are trained to trail a turkey. I don't know how easy it would be to get a deer dog to trail a turkey. Rye did it, but he was used to trailing quail and then pointing them. As I remember, he took to the trail of the turkey and followed it several hundred yards, then pointed him in a downed treetop.
A wounded turkey will try to find some cover and hide in it. It would help to have most any kind of dog with you as you look for him. I once lost a gobbler that went into a hole in a creek bank. I had walked all over him and didn't know he was there. Found the remains the next week after some varmint had pulled him out of the hole and eaten him. Most any sort of dog would have found him, but I didn't have one.
