Setting up for turkeys

My first experience hunting wild turkey was with old buddy Wayne Pearson. What an adventure. Before we left , however, I got schooled by Wayne and the film crew we were going out with. Because turkey’s have such great sight and hearing, silence is the golden rule and ya’ can’t be restless and move around. Wayne’s going to expand right now.

Some tips on wild turkeys. My first experience hunting wild turkey was with old buddy Wayne Pierson. What an adventure. But before we left, I got schooled by Wayne and the film crew we were going out with because turkeys have such great sight and hearing silence is the golden rule and you can't be restless and move around. Wayne's going to expand right now. David, I turkey hunted for years now and I love to hunt. Don't get me wrong. I love to hunt. I love to hunt everything. I'm not in the mood for harvesting big game like I used to be. I'd rather turkey hunt, rather quail hunt, rather dove hunt, and I just enjoy it, but the reason I love the turkey is because you get the whole experience, you get set up and believe me, about 95 percent of a turkey hunt is setting up. You don’t know where the birds are going to fly down, you know where the birds going go when they fly down. And then you try to intercept that bird and sound better than that hen that’s out there talking to him. So and that's the challenge. But I often say 95 percent’s the set up and five percent is the calling. And we'll get into that in depth in another episode.