Advanced Turkey Hunting

Every spring, millions of hunters take to the fields and forests in search of wild turkeys. While some hunters are successful in bagging their bird, many come home empty-handed. This book was written to help hunters locate and harvest mature gobblers. In these pages, author Gary Clancy explains the proven tips and techniques of the best wild turkey hunters in the country. The list of contributors for this book reads like a "who's who" in the turkey world: Mark Drury, David Hale, Harold Knight, and Walter Parrot to name a few. These experts share their secrets for hunting gobblers on public land, in open spaces, during rainy and windy weather, and other special situations that often cause problems for turkey hunters. This book also shows the hunter how to best handle the meat and feathers from a trophy bird after a successful hunt.'

With the help of this book, the persistent turkey hunter will begin to take birds he would never have taken, or even seen, a few years earlier. Guide to Advanced Turkey Hunting will help developing hunters keep improving and taking more and tougher birds. With details on gun selection, calling, using decoys, scouting, and setting up ambush points, this practical guidebook will help you advance up the turkey hunting ladder.

Author Richard Combs has condensed his vast knowledge and skills of turkey hunting into a compilation of informative tactics that will be referred to repeatedly for many years to come. With chapters covering how to hunt the gobbler rut, how to make turkey funnels work for you, and the secrets to Zen turkey hunting, Combs delves deep into the minds and strategies of turkey hunters. Combs also covers the finer aspects of bow hunting for gobblers and includes how to make your own fletching from turkey feathers. For smokepole hunters, there is plenty of information on loads, chokes, and time-tested hints for optimum blackpowder performance with the latest in equipment. Combs covers topics that go beyond the basics like hunting the gobbler rut, tips and techniques for bow hunting turkeys, how to manage small properties for turkeys, how to hunt with blinds and decoys and strategies and advice on recovering turkeys. He also includes some of his favorite turkey recipes at the back of the book. o This book is filled with sidebars on tips and tactics, muzzleloading strategies, scoring techniques, etc. o The author gives excellent guidance on how to slow down and get into the "Zen" of turkey hunting.

Tells how to hunt wild turkeys using guns, bows, or cameras, explains how to plan a hunt, and lists world rankings for trophy birds

As anyone who ever set his sights on a turkey can confirm, hunting this bird is one of the most technically challenging sports there is. Because turkey hunters know that their concentration, skill, and performance need to be high, they're are always on the lookout for insights and advice—so they can bag their limit of gobblers every season. Registered Maine guide Bob Humphrey distills twenty-five years of turkey hunting know-how, sharing the insider tips and techniques he gives his clients, like how to: Know the quarry Anticipate its moves Excel at calling Prepare for the season Look inside, there's never been a turkey hunting book like this. Discover how to build a successful season from the ground up by refining your techniques and learning creative new ways of calling, using decoys, and bagging the maximum.

Tactics and strategies from America's leading expert.

Turkey hunting superstars Drury and Harris share their unparalleled experience and expertise on calling and hunting America's #1 game bird. Written by Casada, editor-at-large for "Turkey & Hunting" magazine, the book condenses years of wisdom into a revealing and insightful guide. 150 photos.

During his life, Gene Nunnery was recognized as a master turkey hunter and an artisan who crafted unique, almost irresistible turkey calls. In The Old Pro Turkey Hunter, the vaunted sportsman shares over fifty years of personal experience in Mississippi and surrounding states, along with the decades-old wisdom of the huntsmen who taught him. Throughout the book, his stories make clear that turkey hunting is more than just killing the bird--it is about matching wits with a wild and savvy adversary. As Nunnery explains, "To me that's what it's all about: finding a wise old gobbler who will test your skill as a turkey hunter." Through his stories, Nunnery reveals that the true reward for successful turkey hunting lies in winning the contest, not necessarily exterminating the foe. Real sportsmen know that every now and then the turkey should and will elude the hunter. As Nunnery looks back on his extensive career, he analyzes vast differences in practice, old and new. The shift, he decides, came during his last twenty years on the hunt, and that difference has only increased in the decades since this book was originally published. Michael O. Giles, Bass Pro staff team member, master turkey hunter, and award-winning outdoors writer and author of Passion of the Wild, writes a new foreword that brings the practice of turkey hunting into the present day. Filled with a tested mixture of common sense and specific examples of how master turkey hunters honor their harvest and heritage, The Old Pro Turkey Hunter is the perfect companion for the novice or the adept.