Author Topic: What Turkey Hunting Books Are You Reading This Spring? (Read 3748 times)

Phantom Gobbler · « **on:** February 17, 2010, 01:30:09 PM »

Just picked up Hunting Booger Bottom - Life Lessons From the Field by Michael Waddell. I like it so far....... a good read. Michael's had quite a ride from his humble beginnings. His claim to fame started with turkey calling practice, practice and more practice........................

What turkey hunting books or articles are you all reading or recommending this year?

And by the way.......for all you frog eating wild turkey lovers out there, I've already read: "Amphibian Declines: The Conservation Status of United States Frog Species." University of California Press, June 2005.

fishunt247 · « **Reply #1 on:** February 17, 2010, 06:31:43 PM »

Tenth Legion...for the 6th time. Maybe The Season for the second time. I might pick up the one you are reading. I like Waddell.

Shootmoore · « **Reply #2 on:** February 17, 2010, 06:45:14 PM »

Shootmoore

Phantom Gobbler · « **Reply #3 on:** February 26, 2010, 11:07:58 PM »

I would also recommend Bobby Dales two books, Double Gobble and Turkey Roost Tales. Both of these books are steeped in Southern Turkey hunting lore.

Also if you can get your hands on a copy of America's Greatest Game Bird, Archibald Rutledge's Turkey-Hunting Tales, you will not be sorry. Great short stories from the old era of Eastern Turkey Hunting. Rutledge was America's most prolific writer on wild turkey hunting in the 50's and 60's. You won't soon forget some of the stories including, "The Bishop Earns a Gobbler, Winged Mountaineers, Fireworks in the Peafield Corner, My 339th Gobbler, The Old Bronzed Men of the Hills, Magic on Mound Ridge" and many more!

And don't forget to find yourself a used copy of "The Old Pro Turkey Hunter" by Gene Nunnery.............it's a must read, awesome turkey hunting adventure.

BPturkeys · « **Reply #4 on:** February 27, 2010, 02:45:46 PM »

The American Wild Turkey by Henry E. Davis and The Turkey Hunting World of Ben Lee by Ben Lee are a couple of the classic must read books. Of course everything by Lovett Williams Jr. deserves a slow read and then a space close by on the shelf for quick reference. And then...now don't laugh, but I enjoyed Dwain Bland's Turkey Hunting Digest, the old Oakie was a fair to middlin old school turkey hunter.

turkey slayer · « **Reply #5 on:** February 28, 2010, 04:07:29 PM »

Phantom,

I am going to read the auditors maps to get more permission. That my reading material

Phantom Gobbler · « **Reply #6 on:** February 28, 2010, 09:20:22 PM »

Quote from: turkey slayer on February 28, 2010, 04:07:29 PM

Phantom,

I am going to read the auditors maps to get more permission. That my reading material

I was just talking to a hunting friend today about this...........easier said then done. Good luck getting additional access this year.

turkey slayer · « **Reply #7 on:** February 28, 2010, 09:36:30 PM »

Why what did you here Phanton

Phantom Gobbler · « **Reply #8 on:** February 28, 2010, 09:41:50 PM »

Quote from: turkey slayer on February 28, 2010, 09:36:30 PM

Why what did you here Phanton

Slayer,

I just mean that it takes persistance and effort to do the research and then follow-up to get landowner permission. Seems like a person is too busy doing other things that get in the way.

We have been trying to get permission from one landowner north of Colville for over three years.............he hasn't said no but he hasn't said yes either!

Phantom Gobbler · « **Reply #9 on:** March 28, 2010, 10:16:56 PM »

Just read a great new article that puts our turkey hunting passion into perspective, "Reflections on a Marvelous Madness" by Jim Casada in the April 2010 issue of NRA's American Hunter. As Jim quotes "in the school of the outdoors there is no graduation day." Jim has killed over 250 gobblers but admits that he still has a lot to learn about how to hunt them. His spring turkey hunts for "His Majesty" have been plagued by mishaps, mischance, miscues and misses.

Sound familiar to anyone?

STIKNSTRINGBOW · « **Reply #10 on:** March 28, 2010, 10:43:00 PM »

The complete hunter "Turkey Hunting Tactics" is O.K. full of basics, I enjoy reading and rereading "Hunting Pressured Turkeys" by Brian Lovett, but it still seems to me the best education is just getting out there and getting my @ss handed to me by an animal with a brain the size of a pea...

yelp · « **Reply #11 on:** March 29, 2010, 12:15:13 PM »

Its a good read...LOL

yelp · « **Reply #12 on:** March 29, 2010, 12:19:44 PM »

I like this one too....LOL

yelp · « **Reply #13 on:** March 31, 2010, 11:10:21 AM »

Just picked up this one..

Phantom Gobbler · « **Reply #14 on:** March 31, 2010, 10:57:29 PM »

Yelp, Glad to see that you and I are reading the same educational literature this Spring!

Must be going to the same Library?

Don't know which is more frightning, the hand coming out of the ground in my favorite patch of Rio turkey woods.......or your face only partially covered by a camo facemask??

I am so terrified, I promise I will never hunt Rios in Lincoln County ever again!

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