Spring Gobbler Anyone???

**pahuntnfool** · April 13th, 2018, 10:17 AM

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Turkey hunting is a favorite of mine....

**bogey1** · April 13th, 2018, 01:01 PM

I saw two feeding this morning on the front lawn of chadds ford elementary school.

**Ta tang** · April 15th, 2018, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by ar15jules

You have to put them to bed the night before and get there early to have a chance. Just my opinion. It does no good to call to something that can't hear you. I have found that if a tom is henned up, your (and my) attempts at luring him away from a REAL hen turkey are not worth the effort put into running a striker over slate. I'll be out. Good luck.

Took a friend turkey hunting a couple years back, he never went for turkey before he brought a home defense shotgun first no no. I locate a bunch of gobbles and started calling back and forth, they were about 1/4 mike away start calling and advancing towards the gobbles. Suddenly a hen comes tearing towards us and 4 Toms come behind strutting and cutting around idiot pulls the trigger at 40yds with home defense shotgun bye bye toms.
First turkey I got I roosted at night just practicing, next day a neighbor jumped my spot and lined up in front of me, started calling then he was gobbling then a bang. He wounded it and it still came to me got it with a ancient double barrel at 20yds.

**TooBigToFit** · April 16th, 2018, 12:13 AM

Originally Posted by Ta tang

Took a friend turkey hunting a couple years back, he never went for turkey before he brought a home defense shotgun first no no.

So did you act as a mentor and help your friend learn about hunting turkeys, and what a good choice of firearm would be? And teach him how to pattern his gun and figure out what his ethical range was?

And was the home defense shotgun the only gun he had? If so, I'd rather him bring it anyways, stay in the woods to learn and get interested... You said yourself that you managed to get turkeys with an old double barrel... Certainly not the same as some of the 3.5" 12ga (or 10ga) turkey guns out there in the same vane as a HD shotgun...

Originally Posted by Ta tang

idiot pulls the trigger at 40yds with home defense shotgun bye bye toms.

You sound like a really nice friend to have...