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Understand When to Get Ready for the Shot

As I’ve mentioned earlier in the week, patience is the biggest key to taking a gobbler. You may have to sit in front of a tree or in a blind for an hour or two before the turkey shows himself, so get comfortable. Have some type of cushioned seat that you carry with you or that’s attached to your turkey vest. Because I don’t know how long a turkey will take to come in, I’ll

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Know What to Do When a Turkey Gobbles

Now that you understand just about everything you need to know to get started, if you go into the woods and make your first yelp with a Turkey Thugs Trigger Box, and a longbeard tom gobbles, then what do you do next? You need to rely on the many months you’ve put in scouting the land that you're now hunting.

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Use a Push Button Call for Your First Turkey Call and Pattern Your Gun

In seminars, I'm often asked, “If a fellow never has been turkey hunting before and wants to start this season, what turkey call will you tell him to buy?” I’ll suggest the Easy Yelper, the Trigger Finger or some other type of push button call. All these calls are box calls that only require one stroke of your finger to create a turkey yelp. Very little practice is required, and the sounds that these push

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Joe Brown Says Take Youngsters Turkey Hunting

I have an 8-year-old son named Garrett, who took his first gobbler when he was 5 years old. He shot that gobbler at 10 yards with a little 2-3/4-inch 20 gauge shotgun. I had a red dot scope mounted on the shotgun for him, and I had him practicing on a turkey-head target. He knew when he put that red dot on that turkey’s wattles that he could take that gobbler.

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What Happens Once the Hunter Makes the Shot and the Turkey’s Flopping

I’ll tell my hunter before we leave the lodge to go hunting that day that if we see a turkey, and he shoots him, I’ll jump up quickly, grab the hunter’s gun, start running toward the tom and get my foot on the tom’s head to make sure he can’t run off. I don’t think that I’m in a safe position when I have my back to a hunter, he has a shell in the

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How the Hunter Prepares to Shoot When the Turkey’s Closing Ground

I don’t want my hunter to have to hold his gun for a very long time, and I don’t want him to get fidgety. So, I make sure he’s in a good shooting position with his butt flat on the ground, his back supported by a tree trunk, his knees pulled up, and the gun resting on his knees, with his cheek against the stock and scanning and searching for the turkey.

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