Huntinfool
Senior Member
Nicely done man. Congrats.Public Land Osceola Cypress swamp gobbler down at 8am.
Fantastic hunt, played my cards perfectly and he flew right into my lap off the roost.
The new Mr Fox vest is officially broken in
Nicely done man. Congrats.Public Land Osceola Cypress swamp gobbler down at 8am.
Fantastic hunt, played my cards perfectly and he flew right into my lap off the roost.
The new Mr Fox vest is officially broken in
Sounds like a slam dunk!One of my deer lease buddies called me yesterday, said his out of towner was done and headed home to Utah.
Told me to come on and see if I can thin the population, said he seeing 5-6 good birds regularly on his place.
I plan to be there Saturday.
Has this trip (and other recent years) made you start to reconsider those private land invites?
No not at all, will always enjoy hunting public land the most, I'll hunt private land if it's a large tract with wild birds that aren't baited. The small tracts where I have permission is just not gratifying at all, baited birds in some way, coming to bird feed, horse feed, cow feed etc.; used to seeing people. My friend had gobblers coming on his property every day while I was staying there on this hunt, I could of shot one easily. To me, no "real" turkey hunter would want to kill one that way. Not a real turkey hunt, just an opportunistic turkey killing on half tame baited bird.
An exception to this is somewhere like Texas, almost every property in texas is full of corn feeders, they have guys that get in deer hunting tower stands and shoot them with deer rifles when they come in to the feeders. I've hunted properties like this, Sheldon was with me on some, he can tell you I purposely hunt in areas with no feeders, heck on one hunt I got permission to hunt a tract in Texas that had no feeders at all and I chose to leave the baited property to go hunt the property with no bait. Hunting on a baited property causes the birds to behave unnaturally, even if you're not hunting over the bait you have to change your hunting tactics to consider how the birds are gonna act knowing they will fly down and go to the bait.
I do like to set up between the roost and the hens' preferred food source, if it can be identified. I used this method with great success hunting turkeys in Wisconsin. Birds roosted on the property I had permission to be on. Upon fly down hens would head south to feed in the neighbor's corn stubble from the past fall's crop. Killed 3 good birds over 2 seasons setting in a ground blind within shotgun range of the hens' preferred route to exit the property I was hunting.
Nothing wrong with setting up where the birds want to be.