Turkey hunting - How close can you get?
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Turkey hunting - How close can you get?
I was hunting turkey the other day, and was testing out the .22 Grasshopper.
For me, getting close to thous featherballs have been a challenge for me, until I got this supper close!
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How close have you got?
For me, getting close to thous featherballs have been a challenge for me, until I got this supper close!
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How close have you got?
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Re: Turkey hunting - How close can you get?
you can almost touch them, if you're in a blind. I seem to remember that 50m was the average for me before they fled if I was hiding behind a rock or a tree.
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look here http://www.thehunter.com/#profile/chewi ... /309716351
from 15m, no blind or stand, with B&C clothing
from 15m, no blind or stand, with B&C clothing
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Re: Turkey hunting - How close can you get?
I routinely get close enough to arrow them without having to aim off of the pin with the Snakebite (between 30 and 20 meters)
I use 3D Summer Forest jacket & 3D Summer Forest gloves. My pants don't do anything and my hat is B&C which doesn't count because not a deer.
Just on the ground in or near trees. No blind or stand.
Edit: they still can spook easy though. I have to be not moving and call them over. I've seen them spook up to 50 meters away when I'm not hunting them and just walking from point A to B
Here's one I picked up at 31 meters, with a hen at front at about 28 point something odd meters.
I was prone among the ground cover and waited until he got below 30m and then I switched to my bow and aimed during the popup and smoked him at 29 meters. Not a trophy but I just wanted to show it. You just aim the pin like you're trying to skim the top of them at that range.
I use 3D Summer Forest jacket & 3D Summer Forest gloves. My pants don't do anything and my hat is B&C which doesn't count because not a deer.
Just on the ground in or near trees. No blind or stand.
Edit: they still can spook easy though. I have to be not moving and call them over. I've seen them spook up to 50 meters away when I'm not hunting them and just walking from point A to B
Here's one I picked up at 31 meters, with a hen at front at about 28 point something odd meters.
I was prone among the ground cover and waited until he got below 30m and then I switched to my bow and aimed during the popup and smoked him at 29 meters. Not a trophy but I just wanted to show it. You just aim the pin like you're trying to skim the top of them at that range.
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Re: Turkey hunting - How close can you get?
Hunting turkey without groundblind or treestand is a job for people with excess patience and a high tolerance to frustration.
Taking a GB makes it very easy, however. Contrary to what a lot of community members and guide writers on this board have claimed in the past, turkeys do not spook at around 20m when you are hidden by a blind, but only at around 4-5m. When I was still (bow-)hunting them, my average kill zone lay between 6 and 12 metres.
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Taking a GB makes it very easy, however. Contrary to what a lot of community members and guide writers on this board have claimed in the past, turkeys do not spook at around 20m when you are hidden by a blind, but only at around 4-5m. When I was still (bow-)hunting them, my average kill zone lay between 6 and 12 metres.
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That is indeed "super close". How did you approach the fellow?haNylanda wrote:Animal score/fact
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I did jump down from a treestand So I did not realy get that close, due to that I manage to get a shot on him before he run off.Bonaventura wrote:Hunting turkey without groundblind or treestand is a job for people with excess patience and a high tolerance to frustration.
Taking a GB makes it very easy, however. Contrary to what a lot of community members and guide writers on this board have claimed in the past, turkeys do not spook at around 20m when you are hidden by a blind, but only at around 4-5m. When I was still (bow-)hunting them, my average kill zone lay between 6 and 12 metres.
ps:That is indeed "super close". How did you approach the fellow?haNylanda wrote:Animal score/fact
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cool ! "death from above"
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That's hilarious - and somehow proves my point that the shop should sell us parachutes for an all new hunting experience!haNylanda wrote:I did jump down from a treestand So I did not realy get that close, due to that I manage to get a shot on him before he run off.
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