Hunting Washington Forum

Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: Polo on September 28, 2015, 06:04:32 PM

Title: Turkey Talk
Post by: Polo on September 28, 2015, 06:04:32 PM: Fall is on the way... Went to the NE corner of WA to chase birds around for fall hunt. First time doing a fall hunt, learned a lot. I will share 1. They are in large groups saw over a hundred birds in 3 days.
2. They are all on private land drove me crazy.
3. Good luck.
So on the 9th my Dad & my son are going to Springdale on private land to go get some birds. When I went in spring had a blast chasing them around Colville way more active in the woods during spring then fall (no birds killed). So got a blind we are going to set up never used one. I got pics sent from property owner with turkeys on edge of woods & field so hope blind works out. I will give up date on how we do time to fill these tags....
Thanks for reading like it says in subject Turkey Talk.

Side note: wish they were in the woods on public land vs private whats up with that?????
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: BOWHUNTER45 on September 28, 2015, 06:20:38 PM: Whats up with that ? did you knock on some doors ? Especially in the fall is when they hate them .. I can not see to many landowners saying no !
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: Polo on September 28, 2015, 10:49:12 PM: No I did not. I was all camouflage out do to scouting aND lpoking for birds in the woods. Don't know what people would think if they saw Rambo the turkey hunter.
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: turkeydancer on September 29, 2015, 08:02:16 AM: They are also in the woods during early fall hunt ... :tup:
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: Polo on September 29, 2015, 07:26:59 PM: I hunted hard for three days in the woods up in Colville & nothing in the woods. They all would walk out onto private land then head back into woods & be gone till evening back onto private land. I did soft calls, a lot of sitting & waiting don't get it. Any tips would be great? But do look forward to the private land hunt in Springdale.
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: turkeydancer on September 30, 2015, 11:51:58 AM: Keekeeruns and Hen Assembly calls (or even Gobbles) can yield results ... or pattern and set up an ambush ... or find and scatter the flock to the four winds, wait 1/2 hr, then keekeeruns (or hen assembly calls or gobbles) to get them back together (note that its a scatter and not a flush in one direction and the better the scatter the better the results).
:tup:
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: Polo on October 05, 2015, 11:04:14 PM: Ya there is a lot of info on scattering them in fall. Going this weekend cant wait, going to try that out if they are not close to the blind.
Title: Re: Turkey Talk
Post by: turkeydancer on October 06, 2015, 01:18:49 PM: Seems to work best with 2 or more guys running at them like screaming bushes ... :yike:

But if you're alone, old, and slow (like me) you can always sneak in under the cover of darkness and whack the roost trees with rolled up newspaper, then setup at the breakpoint and call them back in when it gets light and they start talking ..... :twocents: