Book Description

The quickest way to learn how to turkey hunt successfully is to either hunt with a turkey hunter with years of experience or a turkey-hunting guide. These two types of turkey hunters have solved most of the problems turkey hunters ever will face. They don't always get their birds, but they're far more experienced than anyone else I know. Since writing this book and from hunting with some of the best turkey hunters and guides in the country, I've learned that the more experience that turkey hunters have in turkey woods, the more likely that they'll be successful. Too, each turkey-hunting guide has his own style of calling, hunting and outsmarting turkeys. In this book, you will learn that successful guides:* call a little, and wait a lot;* call a lot and wait a little while;* call so softly you barely can hear them;* call so loudly that their calling will seem to knock the leaves off the trees or blow your head off;* run to a gobbler at first light and try to take him as soon as he hits the ground; * won't even try to call a turkey while the longbeard is on the roost, but will wait until the bird flies down and establishes the route he'll travel that day;* leave a gobbler that's reluctant to come within gun range and hunt different turkeys they believe they can call in quicker;* move as slowly and as quietly as possible as they go to turkeys;* walk fast, and scratch the leaves as they walk to make gobblers think they are hen turkeys coming to them; * crawl to get really close to turkeys to take their shot;* won't crawl if they can't get turkeys to come in to their calling;* believe that the most-important part of their hunts is teaching the people they're guiding how to hunt turkeys; and* believe that the most-important part of the hunts is getting a tom turkey within gun range for the hunters they're guiding.Just as one size of shoes won't fit every person, one style of turkey hunting doesn't fit each hunter. That's why we've also asked several hunters why they hunt with different turkey-hunting guides each season.Over the years, I've learned that regardless of where and what race of turkeys you hunt, each gobbler has his own likes and dislikes. While reading this book, make a list of the new information you've learned, take that list with you during turkey season, and try some of the new tactics. Then you'll become a more-versatile turkey hunter and prove the wisdom from "The Turkey Hunting Guides' Bible."