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Taking a Double-Bearded Turkey on My 390 Acre Lease

The 390-acre farm I hunt homes numbers of fields that are mowed for hay. A creek runs through the land with some big hardwoods there too. The turkeys on that land like to roost over the creek and feed out in those pastures. Some folks think that about 400 acres is too small a property to hunt for turkeys. However, I’ve built two small food plots right in the middle of this land.

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Taking a Big Turkey on 35 Acres

On the morning I took the biggest gobbler I’ve ever harvested on the 35-acre tract I hunt, I first heard that turkey gobble about 100 yards off my property. A road runs right through my land, and I could walk that road bed to get very close to the tom in the pitch-black dark.

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Danny Out-Whitts North Carolina Turkeys

Mossy Oak Pro Danny Whitt lives in Archdale, North Carolina, and although he likes all the new Mossy Oak patterns, his favorite still is Bottomland. Whitt has two places leased to hunt turkeys, including 390 acres in Caswell County and another little farm 15 minutes from his home that’s 35 acres. Whitt enjoys hunting on the smaller acreage, since it’s so close. He can hunt there before he goes to work in the mornings and

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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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