My dad would like to try and take a Merriam's after many years of chasing only Easterns. I would like to try and put a trip together for us to Northwest Nebraska sometime in early May. Through maps and some phone calls, I've decided to focus on the areas around and between Crawford and Chadron based strictly on the enormous amount of public land. Have any of you hunted this area that could offer me some tips, tactics or areas that have worked for you. Although helpful, phone calls out there can only reveal so much and many of the answers to my questions are probably the same answers given to the 100 people who called before me. Any tips tips would be much appreciated!
I'm in Nebraska and I think it's about the same here as anywhere else...I usually sit in my blind or up against a tree with my homemade MP3 caller and gobble them into my decoys and smash-em...I haven't hunted up in that area...I'd recommend coming to south central Nebraska in the Harlan County Reservoir vacinity...The Republican River runs through that area and if you can make friends with a couple of farmers, they like people to shoot turkeys here because people get sick of them coming through their windshields on the highways! Good luck...
I live in Omaha and hunt stuff in central and eastern nebraska. A bunch of my friends went to college out in western nebraska and all they talk about is how great the hunting was out there. Far fewer people and way more more public land.
Agreed with that idea, less people the further this way you come...I have a question for ya'...this is my 1st time of turkey hunting with my bow...I can murder my foam cube's bullseye at 30 yards all day long but I'm wondering what works best on turkeys, to buy the guillotine (sp?) or to use a broadhead or mechanical broadhead and just shoot the upper body? If I bought the guillotine, do I just practice with field tips that weigh the same as the guillotine? Trying to figure out what works best on turkeys cause you know sometimes you only get one shot, if you're lucky to get that shot so I want to make it count...
