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Post by addiction_to_spurs on Jan 21, 2005 15:08:22 GMT -5
Even if you've never experienced the "joy" of hunting public land, I'm sure every person that reads this can recite the most common tip they've ever heard about public land...................get as far back as you can, walk farther than anybody else, thats where the birds are. Good advice, but I noticed that I wasn't the only one to hear this "secret". Everybody heard the same thing and thats where they were going. What I like to try to do when scouting public land is notice where other people are parked, look for footprints, and see where other hunters are going. Usually its the most remote place that holds birds. If you can find a place that is just a little too far away from road hunters to hear a gobble, but not way back in the farthest corner of the land, go check it out and see if you can find any sign of birds and see if you can find any sign that someone else is scouting it. If you find a gobbler in a place like that and you don't see anyone else keying in on it, you just found a potential hot spot.
Another tip while scouting public land is to not give away your hot spots while scouting by parking near where you are going to be scouting or listening for gobbles. I will always park a little ways down on the opposite side of the road and try not to let anyone see which way I walk in.
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Post by Morgan on Jan 23, 2005 13:39:47 GMT -5
ATS....Old trick I used to pull...I used to lay down in the seat to make them think I was already gone...on mornings when I heard a truck coming and I was not yet in the woods...lot of morning they would stop...then ride on to somewhere else... ;D
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Post by addiction_to_spurs on Jan 24, 2005 12:23:29 GMT -5
thats a good one too! Sometimes you just gotta do what you gotta do.
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Post by Morgan on Jan 24, 2005 12:46:47 GMT -5
ATS...years ago in Tallahala...there was a guy that camped down there all season...when the birds would start gobblin he would blow one of those handheld air operated boat horns and spook em...course he hunted everyday and we couldn't...after an hour drive every morning it made me hot....late in the season when the birds had about gobbled out...we carried a Johnny Stewart tape caller with gobbling on it...and let him hunt that one morning....course I was young and stupid back then...
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Post by addiction_to_spurs on Jan 24, 2005 13:07:28 GMT -5
thats priceless.
Almost reminds me of these two cousins that I used to deer hunt with in my early teens. One of them would always crowd us out on a good spot or make every effort to hunt any good sign that you found. Well me and the other cousin took the leg from a dead deer and went to this woodlot that had absolutely no sign in it AT ALL. We flat tore that place up with tracks, we took the rack from a spike I killed a couple years before and skinned every other tree we saw and probably made about 20 scrapes the size of a volkswagen in there. We would slip back in and freshen up some rubs and scrapes and he hunted that place religously the rest of the year and never did see that monster buck. ;D
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Post by Morgan on Jan 24, 2005 14:07:35 GMT -5
;D good for you...I debated last year to pull the old gobblin tape out on a poacher we got on the lease...he could hear it from his house....
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Post by addiction_to_spurs on Feb 19, 2005 20:41:53 GMT -5
Here's another one that I stumbled upong while scouting today. I CAN'T BELIEVE I never thought of it before. When you find a hot spot. GET RID of any evidence of turkeys. Stomp away their tracks ESPECIALLY gobblers, kick away or stomp out their poop, pick up any feathers and remove them from the area, try to straighten out and pat down any scratching. I found a hot spot today, and anyone coming in behind me there won't know any birds are there, but it looks like a couple very large men got in a fight in the middle of the road, and you can't really tell who won  |
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Post by Flhawghuntr®™ on Feb 20, 2005 10:46:02 GMT -5
Buddy you just thought of this one you need to go to hide the turkey tracks/evidence 101  |
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Post by addiction_to_spurs on Feb 21, 2005 16:29:14 GMT -5
Yeah I can't believe it never came to me sooner. I've never been accused of being overly intelectual, you know. |
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Post by Morgan on Feb 21, 2005 16:47:25 GMT -5
But my sneaky friend...a good turkey hunter will know what you were doing....get you two pcs of plywood and cut out some big feet....glue some carpet on the bottom of the feet and get some rubber straps...to strap them to your feet...then take real long strides covering up all the tracks...they will have Big Foot on their mind and never come back into the area... ;D
Morgan's tip of the week...
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Post by George Ackley on May 4, 2005 20:09:27 GMT -5
All I hunt is public land
Ok here we go,
Its just that there is so much of it take and make it work for ya.
Best thing to do is drive around and stop on the road and get away from you truck and call . nothing then drive a ¼ mile and try again .
You get one going get your gear and go in and set up.
You can locate a lot of toms like this.
Now first check you state regs see if it ok to do this.
I have to get a lot of toms each year and after 9 o’clock this is what I do.
George
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