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This thread is for all things related to bowhunting turkeys in New York State. Feel free to share your success stories and how your season is going so far. I’ll be updating how my season is going and what the birds are doing. Here is a couple of the birds that I’ll be after.

Good luck to everyone that’ll be out Wednesday morning in the turkey woods.

While I normally get to travel out west a bit to chase birds before I come back here to Iowa this year due to family and training I was not able to. Even with that this year has been pretty awesome so far. I was able to take my first bird of the year very quickly on the Iowa Opener while wearing my daughter’s good luck neckless once again and was then able to take my 4 year on his first hunt. While we didn’t kill a bird that 4 year old sat awesomely for over 4 hours waiting for one. Then today I got to meet with some pretty cool new people.
I have a pretty good buddy that is well know in the archery world and each year he brings in a few people to turkey hunt with him here in the state. I usually take one or two out so that everyone has time to hunt and today I got to meet with some pretty solid guys that are pretty serious hunters. Always awesome to meet like minded people who are experts in their careers.
I have some time left to get my kids out again and hunt with a couple other buddies, but I have grown to really love bowhunting turkeys and all that surrounds it. The pressure of an elk hunt and the intense planning of a whitetail season is off and it is really just FUN, something that can be lost with the high cost and low draw odds of a lot of hunts.

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Our 3 week season opens in the morning the 15th. Who’s taking their archery setup?
By the looks of it, bird #’s way down. Could be a tough season.
Good luck to all! Keep us posted on your hunt!

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Sorry – I’m guessing I could find 100 of these posts but wanted to solicit some advice if possible.

From Minnesota here and about to give turkey hunting a shot. Been working on the mouth call all winter (to and from work) and I think I have that figured out. I got a new bow setup that I’m just aching to get out and use to put some meat in the freezer.

I don’t have decoys but I’ve been keeping my eye out for some. I have a ground blind but I’m not sure if I’ll set it up or not. I have a couple of spots on private land that seem to hold birds.

Any advice or suggestions to increase my chance of success? This will honestly just be a great excuse to be out in the woods this spring!

Thanks in advance
Nick

So I’m planning on making a trip to Nebraska this year for turkeys with my 7 year old son. We’re from Colorado and don’t know to much about where to go. It’ll be my sons first hunting trip that he will actually be hunting instead of just watching me and I would really love to get him a bird. Any advice on where to start? Are people pretty friendly in Nebraska to possibly knock on doors and ask to hunt? Or is there plenty of public to be successful? I’d just really like this to be a good experience for my boy so it’ll keep his interest in hunting.

Thanks in advance anything will help

I want to THANK the general membership for your patience as I have been doing some spring cleaning in the League Play forums (still a lot left to do) which has caused a delay in the 2019 Turkey Contest Kickoff.

If you chase LONGBEARDS with a bow of any kind (compound, cross, trad) and you’d be interested in being randomly paired with 9-10 AT members on a team to challenge all others, this contest just might be for you! Once registered, you’ll be randomly paired with AT brethren, given your own Team Thread so you can connect with one another in whatever fashion your most comfortable, granted access to a scoring thread where you can register your kills, and compare to the other teams in the contest.

It’s really pretty simple, do whatever you would do anyway in the hardwoods, BUT when you drop your bird, score him with the NWTF scoring system and post those results for your team in the Check-In Station. All teammates scores count for your total team score, you can register as many birds as you want; only your BEST is tallied. It does have to be your BEST total bird, can’t add spurs from one, beard length from another and weight from a 3rd.

DO NOT RESPOND TO THIS THREAD!!!!!

If you’re interested is registering or at least reading a little more use the links below……

To REGISTER
https://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5632833

The RULES/DETAILS
https://www.archerytalk.com/vb/showthread.php?t=5632367

SEE YOU ALL IN THE LEAGUE PLAY FORUM!

Joe

I went out and bought a cheap roll up blind that is basically a 16 inch fence of camo netting. Is this going to give my buddy and I any better chance of not getting spotted while drawing back? I can’t really afford a $ 200 full enclosure (especially now that I don’t have enough posts to view the classifieds). Anybody have any ideas for jerry rigging something a little more substantial?

What’s a good turkey call for the mouth calls or box calls? I’ve tired some and wondering other options