Practical Turkey Hunting Strategies

Tactics and strategies from America's leading expert.

With the help of this book, the persistent turkey hunter will begin to take birds he would never have taken, or even seen, a few years earlier. Guide to Advanced Turkey Hunting will help developing hunters keep improving and taking more and tougher birds. With details on gun selection, calling, using decoys, scouting, and setting up ambush points, this practical guidebook will help you advance up the turkey hunting ladder.

Turkey hunting throughout the West continues to grow in popularity. Whether you're a new comer or a veteran to the sport, this book is for you. Scott Haugen makes his living in the outdoors and has hunted turkeys in several western states for nearly a quarter-century. In this unique book, Haugen draws upon his turkey hunting experience and formal education in the sciences to help hunters gain valuable insight to what it takes to find success. Be it spring or fall seasons, this comprehensive guide teaches hunters approaches that apply to all skill levels. Special attention is given to scientific turkey behavior, gear, youth hunting strategies and also includes sections on field care and favorite recipes. Book jacket.

Provides an excellent introduction to the sport of turkey hunting including safety considerations, licenses, gear, and hunting strategies.

As anyone who ever set his sights on a turkey can confirm, hunting this bird is one of the most technically challenging sports there is. Because turkey hunters know that their concentration, skill, and performance need to be high, they're are always on the lookout for insights and advice--so they can bag their limit of gobblers every season. Registered Maine guide Bob Humphrey distills twenty-five years of turkey hunting know-how, sharing the insider tips and techniques he gives his clients, like how to: Know the quarry Anticipate its moves Excel at calling Prepare for the seasonLook inside, there's never been a turkey hunting book like this. Discover how to build a successful season from the ground up by refining your techniques and learning creative new ways of calling, using decoys, and bagging the maximum.

Contains tactics and techniques for hunting turkeys.

A guide to hunting turkey in the fall and winter season which covers scouting specifics, terms, calling, roosts and gobblers, changing flock composition, patterning, gear, guns, bows, safety, and attire.

A turkey hunter awakens at dawn with excitement and anticipation, but seldom with a threat of survival. Experience some near tragic outcomes as a result of hunting turkey, from an account of a life-threatening fever after contracting both Lyme Disease and Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever to the details of a shooting accident which critically wounds the author and allows the reader to "experience" the entire tragedy from the beginning of the hunt through air-lift to the medical center and the subsequent recovery process. Turkey Quest explores in detail a series of midwestern wild turkey hunting experiences that provide hunting strategies, both successful and unsuccessful. This book provides entertainment, safety awareness and hunting strategies coupled with leisurely reading for any hunting enthusiast.

Every spring, millions of hunters take to the fields and forests in search of wild turkeys. While some hunters are successful in bagging their bird, many come home empty-handed. This book was written to help hunters locate and harvest mature gobblers. In these pages, author Gary Clancy explains the proven tips and techniques of the best wild turkey hunters in the country. The list of contributors for this book reads like a "who's who" in the turkey world: Mark Drury, David Hale, Harold Knight, and Walter Parrot to name a few. These experts share their secrets for hunting gobblers on public land, in open spaces, during rainy and windy weather, and other special situations that often cause problems for turkey hunters. This book also shows the hunter how to best handle the meat and feathers from a trophy bird after a successful hunt.'