Searching turkeys with a bow is a problem. Heck, searching turkeys with any weapon is a problem. That’s why so many individuals develop into obsessive about searching them each spring.
For bowhunters, the most important impediment to beat is getting drawn on a gobbler with out getting busted. That is made infinitely simpler by way of pop-up floor blinds with darkened interiors designed to cover your actions. Nevertheless, you possibly can constantly fill your tag with no industrial blind.
For those who do go blind-less, be sure to are sporting an excellent spring camouflage sample.
My go-to sample occurs to be Mossy Oak Obsession, which is constructed on a background of mottled tree bark and options limbs, leaves, bark, branches and different digitally enhanced pure parts, plus shadowing, shade tones, and an inlay of the NWTF’s brand all through the sample.
After all, you possibly can’t simply sit within the open and anticipate to arrow a turkey. When you get a gobbler to reply, use pure vegetation (deadfalls, brush piles, clusters of timber, and many others.) to cover behind whereas nonetheless permitting your self room to attract and shoot.
I discover decoys to be an enormous assist, as they may usually distract a strutting tom simply lengthy sufficient to allow you to get drawn.
I wish to place my decoys comparatively shut, so a tom gained’t dangle up out of vary, and going through towards me as a result of if he’s strutting for my hen decoy he’ll often dance round in entrance of her. That places his fan between us, successfully hiding my drawing movement. Additionally, as quickly as I can see a tom committing to my decoy set, I take the primary alternative to attract my bow, ideally when the gobbler’s head is totally hidden behind a tree or brush. Since you’ll usually have to carry at full draw for an prolonged time period, I like to recommend reducing your bow’s draw weight by at the very least 5 kilos.
Turkeys are a blast regardless of the way you select to hunt them. However, in my view, if you’d like the last word bowhunting problem, go after them this spring with no blind.
