I NEED HELP TURKEY HUNTING

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bigcim

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I KNOW THAT TURKEY HUNTINGS OVER BUT I WENT FOR MY FIRST TIME THIS YEAR A TOTAL OF 3 TIMES THIS YEAR I FOUND TRACKS AND DROPING WERE I WAS HUNTING BOUGHT EVERYTHING I NEEDED CAMO CALLS DECOYS EVEN TALKED TO TURKEY HUNTING GUIDE NEVER HEARD OR SEEN A TURKEY I THINK MY FIRST MISTAKE IS TRYING TO FIND TURKEY IN THE SAN BERNARDINO MOUNTAIN OF SO CAL IF SOMEONE COULD HELP ME OUT SO NEXT TIME MY INVESTMENT COULD PAY OFF I WOULD APRECIATE IT THANKS:banghead:
 
I hunt in the east and this works for me.
1 Be at the hunting frounds real dark early.
2 Right when things lighten up a bit use an owl call to locate the flock.
3 Know the area ahead of time so you can get in the woods quietly and set up before they get off the roost.
4 Get your back up against a tree and give another hoot, it really helps to know where they are, if non around you are just going to spend a sleepy morning, so don't waste your time in that spot.
5 Know how to use your choosen call, one of the biggest mistakes is calling too much.
6 Don't move a muscle have your gun up ready, don;t scratch, don't smoke, don't eat, just sit and be quiet.
 
kingcreek

The man was asking advice on turkey hunting not keyboarding and proper grammer usage.

P.S.

I would like to hear any advice available on the subject of turkey hunting.
 
Ya say you went hunting three times only? I don't know about the hunting over there, but here in AR the turkeys are plentiful... yet we still don't get a turkey for going out only three times. Our ratios are closer to 1 turkey per 7-8 hunting trips.
 
Hunting Turkey

I will try and provide some help. First a couple of questions.
Where are you hunting? That will detirmine what kind of Turkey you will be hunting.
What time period were you hunting...early moring/late afternoon?? What kind of area? Open field, wood lot, forest?
If this was your fisrt time out...sorry for you bad luck. I can tell you that I have several Turkey tags and Deer tags that were not filled over the years...not from lack of effort...but lack of opportunities to see game.
One last thing to remember...they call it hunting. Not going out to the woods and being sucessful every time you go after game. Sometimes the wildlife wins...sometimes I win. That is part of the reason I enjoy hunting so much.
 
Can you tell the difference between fresh droppings and older droppings? If the droppings were fresh and you found tracks in areas where they would have been eradicated by recent wind or rain, then you should have heard turkeys even if at a distance.

Do you know what different calls that turkeys make sound like?

Do you know any experienced turkey hunters?

If not, try to find a local chapter of the Wild Turkey Federation, attend their events, get to know people, and ask for help.

There's a fairly steep learning curve with turkey hunting. To me, it was harder to learn than deer hunting.
 
This long beard Osceola seemed to enjoy the smell of wet latex paint and the last CD that Warren Zevon made played loud. I had just spent the last 90 minutes or so yelling/explaining to the lovely wife why I needed to buy a special choke tube set for my new shotgun "because turkeys are so hard to get close too honey, they are super smart and never come into range if the slightest thing seems wrong". So what does she see when she turns around from painting our barn? This guy looking at us like this :neener: from no more than 20 yards away.

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Are there any legal areas above Folsom lake? A few years back, I remember driving up in the hills somewhere around there early in AM. Tried to find a nice area to view the landscape below, and there they were, flocks and flocks of turkeys, justa scratching away at the gravel on the dirt 2 track road , below a canopy of trees. The first time I ever saw wild turkeys.:)

Oh wait, that's near Sacramento, not San Bernadino, sorry.
 
has anybody hunted san bernardino mountains before I think im a hunter living in the wrong state you seem to hAve all the animals what are the houses going for in kansas here there 600's to 800's LA you have tornados out there though
 
Kansas housing

You can get a decent home for 120m and above. Kansas City is a nice town to live in. Tornados give you pretty good warning before you need to take shelter. As far a hunting...well I have white tail deer, pheasant, quail, turkey, plenty of good fishing. I love it.
 
You can get a decent home for 120m and above. Kansas City is a nice town to live in.

Any place that I have to pay 120 million dollars just for a "decent" home is better off without me living there.
 
You may have better luck further North. Try the Los Padres NF/ Fort Hunter Ligget area. There are camp sites at FHL.
An easy way to sound turkeys is to use a crow/owl call just before sunrise while scouting an area.
The nice thing about FHL is that you can pig hunt before turkey season which makes the scouting trip more fun. Look to the north west of area 3 for turkey, 10/13 for pig.
I haven't been back there for years but always had fun. Good luck.
 
Watch hunting videos on TV or buy a couple at a sporting goods store. Too hard to explain here. The videos will help you.
 
Beware the videos! Only thing to get out of them is the calls, turn the pic off. Some of the stuff I see on turkey hunting shows almost make me puke. I have been hunting turkeys in TX. LA, MS, AL & KY for over 40 years and with the exception of some "turkey farms" that I have hunted on most of the stuff you see on the videos is crap, the real stuff wound up on the cutting room floor. I know several guys here in Alabama and Mississippi who make a living filming turkeys and selling the footage to the "big boys."

If you expect to call a turkey and kill him, not lay in wait and ambush him, you need to know when to call, how to call and when to move and when not to move. THe sound is not nearly as important as the cadence. Several things are for sure, like if you can see the turkey you cannot move, you can't be moving that gun around and moving that head around to get a better look like that do in the videos, are he will see you and the game will be over. IF he answers your call and comes in and sort of hangs up a little out of range, be patient, don;t move just wait.

The old man who I hunting with when I was young told me one time that if you got 20 feet down in a well and called one time and a turkey answered you from 1/2 mile away and you did not call again when he got there he would walk up and look down in the well---if he answers you, he knows where you are at. When you see these "pros" calling to turkeys when they are right in front of them either the turkeys are tame or they put the sound on in the editing room.

I would suggest that you get you a couple of calls, a calling tape or calling video and practice. When you have it down pretty good go find you some turkeys, tame or wild and see how they respond to your calls. When hunting season comes around, go get you one.
 
Thanks bigjack I have all the things you metioned jut never see or her turkeys just tracks and droppings i sit up agianst a tree were i see the most and call
 
Scout! Scout! Scout!

Get in early and use locator calls.. It takes some time to get some birds to talk. Scout alot learn their habits. Never hunted in the mountians here in Texas we have 300 birds to a section it seems like. Hang in there and practise calling.
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