I'd hunt them if we had them up here. I might take a spring trip one of these years to chase them somewhere.
I think if I was on a hunt where I actually have heard gobblers strutting in I might feel a little different. But I can think of several things that I get plenty of entertainment from that doesn't cost me 25 dollars. I would actually prefer scouting for the fall than sit in a blind all morning.
I've wanted to hunt turkeys so bad just haven't went full in and got the required gear. Can't wait to add it to my hunting Adventures though.
I have a buddy who loves turkey hunting more than chasing whitetails.......just the opposite of me. However his ongoing influence has worn on me over the years and I have invested in a few dekes, got a cheap wrap around blind and a short stool that all fits into a flat green waterfowl bag with shoulder straps. Not a good caller, but every once in a while I find a tone deaf tom that is very lonely and comes to investigate this sad sounding hen........ When I head out with my gear on my back early on a May morning, I get rather pumped up for bagging one of those "ugly birds" because they make that cool gobble that fires me up and I am holding my Prime. MI also has a fall season and the couple times I have purchased a tag, it sat idle in my pocket as I had no desire to focus on turkeys when I could be pursuing deer. This Saturday morning I will be setting the alarm early and heading out in hopes of running across a turkey that wants to come home for dinner.
I've just never gotten into it. I've tried a few times without much success. Spring is a time when I just don't have a lot of free time to devote to it. Maybe in about 5 years when my daughter has graduated high school I'll have more time, but we are at the softball fields pretty much every weekend during turkey season. I'm not willing to exchange my vacation days for turkeys over deer.
I've never been that into it and honestly even once through up a blind for opener and than ended up just doing food plot prep and work instead for deer. Just never been bit by the turkey bug....someday no doubt it'll happen...until then just gonna keep using springtime as I do all other times: Deer Season.
My interest has waxed and waned. I didn't do it much when I was younger, then I got into in college and shot a few birds, but now, with limited time, and our late season coupled with odd hours, I get pretty frustrated by it more than anything. They never stay on our property during the spring anyways. We hold them in the fall with all of the standing corn, but nothing in the spring. I haven't pulled the trigger in a few years and it's not for a a lack of trying.
Fitz heck you wouldn't have to drive 100 miles to have a shot at shooting a turkey, the turkeys northern range expansion has been surprising.
Everybody that I've talked to that does hunt them say they take out the breasts and throw the rest away. There are none on the hunting land I use, I could sit on my parents deck and shoot one of the dozen that walk through every day but that isn't really hunting. If I had a good place I would give it a try.
besides the fact that I hate when anyone says you "MUST" do something based on their opinion, nothing I read indicated a "MUST" as a deer hunter. Sure drawing on a bird will help w/ panic, but so will drawing on deer all the time. Sounds more like "MUSTS" for deer hunters who don't actually hunt much.
Titles are designed to get you to read, which you did, and consider. You don't have to do anything in life, but its a strong suggestion in my opinion that will really help in the deer woods as well.
