Hunting Hunters

If you’ve ever been on a spring turkey hunt or you’ve ever wanted to, you should consider turkey hunting in the fall, too. Most people think of spring but it’s a fall activity as well. There are some differences between a spring and the fall turkey hunt that the hunter should be aware of to be able to enjoy himself as much as possible.

First of all, the turkeys are different in the fall than in the spring. Spring time is mating season for the turkeys and they’re going to have a very different behavior. There going to be more restless and more animated because they’re trying to attract and find a mate. In the fall, turkeys have passed the mating season and are more interested in feeding and socializing.

So while in the spring you look for turkeys where they mate, in the fall you want to look for them where they eat. Where they nest is also a place to look in the fall not because they’re mating but because they’re going to be sleeping more with the change of the season.

In the fall, there’s a turkey hunting technique known as flock busting. A hunter finds a flock of turkeys and rushes toward them to break them up or sends a hunting dog toward them. This scatters the flock so that a turkey call like a young turkeys “kee kee” call can be used to attract them back. As the turkeys come back you’ve got a prime hunting situation.

Finding where the turkeys eat in the fall is really the key to a good autumn turkey hunt. To find this space simply look for turkey droppings and tracks. Very often these areas are close to water sources.

The time of day you plan your fall turkey hunt makes a difference, too. Before the sun goes down in the late afternoon turkeys will typically be apart but working toward gathering together. By the time the sun comes up, they should be flocked together. It’s a good time for flock busting if you choose to turkey hunt in the morning. Hunting in the evening means the flocks going to be broken up a bit and you’re going to be finding smaller flocks or individual turkeys.

One way to make your fall turkey hunt successful is to learn a few different turkey calls. The “kee kee” of the young turkey is a good option after flock busting because that’s the call that would be answered by a turkey’s mother. But other calls could also work like the gobbler call or hen call, depending on the turkeys you see when you rush the flock.

A fall turkey hunt might not be quite as easy as a spring hunt because they are not mating and not quite as reckless as when they are looking for a mate and driven by instinct to mate. But if you scout out their food and water sources and find where they rest, you’ll have a good turkey hunt.

Photo Credits: gerrybuckel

Originally posted 2010-04-10 03:26:58. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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Dove hunting is actually a really exciting sport. You can gather together a couple of hunters in a single field that happens to be an active ground for feeding and you are likely to have a really eventful hunt with lots of good results. In some states, you should recognize that it is illegal for you to go hunting for mourning doves and so it is important for you to find out what the local laws are before you go out shooting at any animals.

There are a number of counties and states that actually only allow for hunting of mourning doves or other varieties doves during specific hours of the day, such as during the afternoon hours for example. Planning a trip for hunting during such a time period is not difficult by any means but it does require some work and some planning.

The best way that you are going to be able to ensure that you have a successful hunt is to go to a popular source of food and water. Sometimes they are closely placed together and sometimes they are not. You should be watching fields in your local area in search of activity from doves. They tend to feed during the morning hours and then during the middle to the late afternoon is when they generally go to roost. You should be looking for flocks that are gathering on power lines over fields or in the fields themselves. Fields that have just recently been harvested also generally make for a good source for doves. Doves tend to flock to fields such as these if the hunting has been restricted in the area. In the days that are leading up to the hunt you are going to want to check to make sure that there is actually activity there.

Once a field that is busy has actually been identified, you are going to want to make contact with the owner of the land to make sure that you have permission to be there before you start hunting there. Once you have secured the necessary permissions, you should call other hunters who can get in on the action with you. A hunter may certainly hunt alone if he or she chooses, but the chance of shooting birds will increase when there are more hunters firing at them. A field with a number of hunters in it is going to scatter the birds, meaning that everyone is going to get a shot and a chance at nabbing a mourning dove.

In areas where hunting in the morning is permitted, the doves will begin to fly in just before the sunrise. Make sure that you are in position by this point and you should already be ready to shoot in order to get the best possible results.

Photo Credits: dracobotanicus

Originally posted 2009-11-24 03:36:34. Republished by Blog Post Promoter

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