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Offline BOWHUNTER45

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Re: Turkey Hunting
« Reply #15 on: February 09, 2013, 07:39:38 PM »
Seriously if you want to see birds and lots of them then head east ...to much fun to waste time anywhere else  :tup:

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Re: Turkey Hunting
« Reply #16 on: February 09, 2013, 09:09:04 PM »
You can't always expect them to use the same tree.  I hunted birds that will make a loop that takes them more than one day to complete looking for hens.  But this normally happens later in the season.  Towards the beginning they normally do.

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Re: Turkey Hunting
« Reply #17 on: February 10, 2013, 02:17:34 PM »
Elksnout- from my experience, turkeys will continue to use the same roosting trees unless they get too pressured... even if you scare the birds and they dont come back to same tree, they will normally roost within a couple hundreds yards of their original tree.. However, they could be gone for days if you scared them badly.. Yeah when you see a roosting tree you'll know it, should be droppings and feathers everywhere at the base of it.. Also, just go out early one morning and let out a crow call... most of the time they will gobble to that and then you can pinpoint their roost tree that way as well. And like already stated, later in the season they may have multiple roosting trees but it seems early in the season, they want to roost in the same spot every night.

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Re: Turkey Hunting
« Reply #18 on: February 10, 2013, 08:24:56 PM »
Thanks guys for your responses. Very green with only one season under my belt in the Klickitat area. When is a good time to start scouting before the season starts? Now, middle of March, week before the opener????
Can't we all just get along?

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Re: Turkey Hunting
« Reply #19 on: February 12, 2013, 09:15:14 AM »
The closer to the opener that you scout the better. Birds may move from where you find them in March due to snow melt, weather or
availability of food.
Fish hard, hunt harder!

 


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