To hunt Turkeys
I am a little uneasy about the entire ordeal, but I have heard alot of good things. We are staying at Medicine Creek campground in Cambridge, NE.
Anyone who can feed me some information that might expedite me or my hunting party shooting a turkey, I would be extremely grateful.
My plan is to find some trees. It does not look like there are many of them on the landscape at all. I would think that trees= turkeys since that is the only place to roost but I do not know.
Someone please steer me in the right direction
You hunting in the WMA or on private ground? The WMA has a lot more timber and is a completely different animal than the surrounding farm land.
If you are hunting private land find your birds and put them to bed from afar. It's so open you won't have a problem with this. Bring binos!
Go in early the next morning and get right under them.... back against the tree they are roosted in. People think I'm crazy when I tell them this but it's what you need to do. I've literally had them jump out of a tree and hit the ground 8 feet from me after listening to them drum and gobble 15 feet above for 45 minutes.
Trees in the farmlands only exist on the creeks for the most part and there's usually a steep bluff close to them. General rule of thumb is when they come to roost they will enter from the high side of the bluff and when they fly down they will fly down to the low side. They love to jump off a bluff directly into a roost.
If you don't kill them in the morning time off of the roost DO NOT chase them because you will 100% spook them. Let them walk off and then hunt them that evening as they return to their roost area. Nebraska turkeys fly down from their roost and act like they are trying to break in a new set of Reeboks every day. They will hit the ground and do the strutting and gobbling thing and then they will be gone. I bet they walk 100 miles every single day.
I cannot stress enough......... on the farmlands...... TREES, TREES, TREES! Where there are trees there are turkeys. You will see them on fields a lot but they will always be in fields that are close to trees. If you are in the middle a bunch of farmland and can only see fields as far as you can see then you are wasting your time.
If you are hunting the WMA up by the lake it is a different story. Lots of timber for them to roost in so you will just have to jump in with the rest and hunt them like Alabama birds (albeit dumb Merriam/Rio hybrid versions of Alabama birds).
