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 I’ve hunted Easterns for years and there are two things I’ll say: they either come to the call or they don’t!
The hardest thing for me to learn was (and still is) how much to call. Try to learn when to talk to a turkey, and when to shut up. Its hard to tell someone what I mean, but just feel the bird out. Just because he gobbles does not mean he’s coming, but it doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be ready either!
When you call to a turkey that gobbles, but doesn’t seem to be coming, make sure you sit long enough to give him a chance. Do this with out calling for a long time before you get up, and sometimes you’ll still flush the turkey. If you have a problem with shooting at a turkey when he’s still too far out, make your set-up to where when you see him, he’s in range.
One of the things I’ve been doing the past few years that has been fun is floating back-woods rivers by canoe. There is a river in almost every National Forest in South Carolina (and it is probably that way in most National Forests) and you can hunt and float them all! It’s a great way to find birds no one else can get to, it just takes a little planning!
Russell Lynch
Mall Pro-Staff
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