wa turkey hunting

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

I have only hunted in Wa for turkey once and killed a small tom, I never really got into it until 2 years ago when I went to my friends ranch in california and he taught me the ins/outs of calling and hunting birds, his ranch is insane and we saw 2-300 birds a day and called in numerous long beards.. what a rush!! anyways I am not great at calling yet so I was wondering if anyone wanted to trade some turkey trips for fishing trips this year?

[jackelope]

get yourself a couple dvd's or a couple cd's or both and watch them over and over, get your calls now and figure out which ones you like and practice all the time while driving to and from work...i say that because if your wife is anything like most anybody else's wife, she'll likely try to put a bullet in your skull if you are practicing in the house...anyway...i like the primo's dvd's to watch...
i also like this site and would like to buy one of their products one of these days, but the samples are cool too:
http://www.treetopturkeys.com/calls.html
thats what i did and killed 2 turkeys the first year we went out...called all of them in. i have been addicted ever since.

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

good info thanks, Im also really looking to meet some guys and hunt with them

[SpokaneSlayer]

I'd be more than happy to take you turkey hunting.  I've got spots already picked out.

[yelp]

Take me too! :chuckle

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

sweet!I love it and man do they taste good

[SpokaneSlayer]

sweet!I love it and man do they taste good

That they do.  We can get more into the details later.  I've got a ton of calls and some decoys.  My buddy who lives down the hill from one of the spots says he's been hearing yelps and a few gobbles this past week.

[huntnphool]

We will be in your neck of the woods as well SS, maybe we can get together for a beer after.

[SpokaneSlayer]

Sounds good to me.

[Turkeyman]

I would be willing to trade a eastern hunt on the west side for a hunt on east side. Will only take people that will keep it to them selves. I hunt alot of public land and dont need a bunch of hunters to mess with the birds.

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

lets do it

[PA BEN]

I would be willing to trade a eastern hunt on the west side for a hunt on east side. Will only take people that will keep it to them selves. I hunt alot of public land and dont need a bunch of hunters to mess with the birds.

Give me a PM, I'm form Chewelah and have hunted turkeys for over 21 years. I'm very selective who I take, but for an Eastern bird. I could bend my rules a bit.

[Turkeyman]

I am the same way sounds like you no your stuff when it comes to turkey hunting if you have hunted them for 20+ years. I have hunted easterns over here for 15yrs. I have hunted N.east, S.east, have taken Washington slam. Send me PM i would like to chat more maybe this could work out. I am very selective also on taking people on a eastern hunt they are a tough bird to hunt and i have put in alot of time scouting and learning how to hunt the black gost. I have helped a few east siders get there eastern.

[Hoytstaffshooter83]

man way to jack a thread!!!! lol

[PA BEN]

Yeah, The Washington slam is what I'm talking about. I've killed Rios and Mariam's but no Eastern bird. As the numbers have gone up it's harder to call them in, in the old days if you put one to bed the night before, you could call him off the roost the next morning. Now with all the hens it's getting harder. I miss going to bed at night and hearing the gubbles, or getting woke up in the mornings by gubbles. Are these Eastern birds very Call able?

[Turkeyman]

Yes just depends on where they are at in the bredding cycle. Have had them gobble over 100 times and come in spitt'n and drumming. Other times come in with out saying a word. We dont have the populations over here or the hen problem yet so some time during the season you will find a tom that will work.

[PA BEN]

I've called in hot birds from a mile away before, gobbling all the way. Most of the time it's two to three toms without hens. When they get it in there head to come nothing will stop them. I've also called them from 600 yds away and they come to a 4 strain barb wire fence and it stop them in there tracks, they stay on the other side a gobbler there heads off and never cross. Go figure. I've shot toms and after the shot his buddy jumps and spears him while he's down.

[Turkeyman]

That's turkey hunting when they want to die they will do crazy stuff. Other times they wont budge that's what makes it fun. I called in two long beards easterns for a friend that has never been turkey hunting before and the fought right in front of him for a couple minutes then he shot one. He didn't appreciate the hunt like i did he thinks its easy now. The easterns over here are more call able around the first of May.

[PA BEN]

That's right you take someone out who has never hunted them and call one off the roost first thing they think that's it. The last few years I've snicked up on the toms I've shot because there all hen up. Sense I moved over here to the West side I don't have time to scout, but if you scout and find there strutting area's, you can set up there with your decoys and call, most of the time you will score right off the roost. But once you think you've got them figured out they do something off the wall. 

[Turkeyman]

Where on the west side? Do you still hunt over east? You are right as soon as you get cocky and think you have them figured out they will make you look stupid.