Hunting Washington Forum
Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: buglebuster on April 17, 2014, 01:50:42 PM
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I know I will probably get flamed for this but here goes.
A popular fall turkey tactic is to rush the flock to split them and try to.call them back in. Why couldn't this work very well in spring? If you know where they are roosting. Sneak in well before light and spook them from the roost tree so they all scatter. when daylight comes try to call them back in. In my mind it will work very well because the toms are very henned up right now. Thoughts on this :dunno:
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I know I will probably get flamed for this but here goes.
A popular fall turkey tactic is to rush the flock to split them and try to.call them back in. Why couldn't this work very well in spring? If you know where they are roosting. Sneak in well before light and spook them from the roost tree so they all scatter. when daylight comes try to call them back in. In my mind it will work very well because the toms are very henned up right now. Thoughts on this :dunno:
10x easier to just wait for fly down. They're not henned up till they get on the ground.
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Birds are blind in the darkness. Spooking them off the roost before shooting hours could be breaking the rules.
Wait till they fly down - then try.
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In this spot the hens and gobblers all roost in the same tree, about 30 birds. They are all together from fly down untill they split up after working up the hill on private land. They have 2 roosting areas. The lower one is about 500 yards from the upper one. When they are there it is easy, just sit up above and wait for them to work up the hill. If they are at the upper roost tree, they are about 30 yards from the private property they head to everyday. At flydown they fly straight into.the private land so I.can't set up to ambush them.
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Heard a guy try this a couple years ago. Only to find several chewed up birds on the ground. Apparently because the birds cannot see to get back in the tree, they wandered on the ground till the coyotes found them. I would advice not do to it. It is too easy to call them in. Especially now that the hens are getting ready to sit on eggs all day.
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If you can sneak in close and not spook them, put out your decoys, keep quite until legal hour and make soft tree yelps. Get him wound up and do a fly down cackle and flap a turkey wing or your hat against your leg. He will be the first to the ground before the hens, I've done this several times when they are henned up and kill him right out of the tree. Last year the Tom flew down right in my decoys at shooting hr.
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Busting a flock in the fall usually involves a family group ( hen and poults.) They want to stay together. Spring turkeys are all adults ( for the most part) and don't necessarily need to be together like a family group. I would expect busting the flock to not work so well. I have attempted this method in the fall several times and the turkeys just flew up into the trees all around me and putted at me and never gave me the call em back in opportunity. Try an evening set as they return to the roost. Pay attention to the route and set up on it before they show up. :twocents:
