Colville Turkey Advice?

[sneakyjake]

Good luck.   Be safe and courteous.   Watch for other hunters and be aware of property lines.  Once you start moving, you’ll be bound to make mistakes and you will encounter other hunters doing the same.

[Call em in]

Thank's everyone for the tips & insight! I do appreciate it, everything helps as I'm a novice at best when it comes to turkey. I've sat for days in my pop up calling away on the box call and the pot call with no luck. I think I will leave the pop up home this year and get hiking around until I get a bird to call back.

Yeah dude unless you have the birds patterned ditch the pop up and cover ground and find a bird that wants to play. Pop ups are awesome if you have them patterned...or it’s raining lol. Good luck.

[Pegasus]

Thank's everyone for the tips & insight! I do appreciate it, everything helps as I'm a novice at best when it comes to turkey. I've sat for days in my pop up calling away on the box call and the pot call with no luck. I think I will leave the pop up home this year and get hiking around until I get a bird to call back.

Wander and use a box call and don't be afraid to produce as much noise out of the box as possible until you get a response. If you are moving into a location in the dark use the owl or crow calls. Later in the day a peacock call will sometimes set them off. Turkeys will often gobble at loud noises such as dogs barking and my favorite sound that I have heard turkeys gobble at are truck "jake" brakes. The first turkey I ever shot in this state was set off by a lightning strike. He started gobbling like crazy and moving fast. I was able to call him back in. That was about a hundred years ago when the total turkey kill was 100 birds state wide. Previous to that if I even got a turkey to respond to my calls I considered it a successful hunt. Good luck.