Archery Store

Really fun morning with a good buddy today. Super quick hunt with the gobbler seeing the decoys and basically sprinting in to lay down the law. My first turkey after a few close calls earlier this year. Bird weighed 25.6 lbs with 1.25” spurs and a 10.5” beard. Old fella for sure. Already excited for fall white tails!

https://youtu.be/uYbv6AXqLSg

Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Got out for an early morning sit with a friend of mine. He got his first turkey, and I hit one high and it got away.

https://youtu.be/m6ITnPN3FNk

Which turkey targets do you guys like? Is I worth spending over double the price on a premium rinehart or getting the woodland series? Seen a delta for $ 100 at fleet farm just dont know anything about those.

Sent from my SM-G975U using Tapatalk

So I’ve seen videos of people shooting turkeys with a bow out to 100 yards. I’ve also seen people reap turkeys and wait to shoot them at 5-10 yards. What are y’alls thoughts. Is 100 yards ethical? I can personally shoot a 9" ball target at 100 yards 10 out of 10 times with my mechanicals so I’m considering giving it a shot but wanted some input first.

I’ve been kicking around where I would like to go , out of state, this year to do some hunting. Looks like Iowa is going to take another year to draw and my 2 buddies can’t go this year anyway. I was looking at merriams in western Nebraska, however that is a 20+ hour drive. I was researching states within a days drive that I can hunt spring turkeys and where the season comes in prior to Ohio and Pennsylvania. I settled on Tennessee.

My work just approved off the time. My plan is to head down the day before season and hunt the first 4 days of season. I’m focusing on northeastern Tennessee, specifically North Cumberland wma. Is anyone familiar with that public land or have suggestions for other public land in that general area? Not looking for any honey holes. Just a good starting point. Any recommendations on lodging? Looking online it appears the only license I need is the 7 day hunting all game license for $ 214.50. Is that correct?

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.

Attached Thumbnails

 

 

 

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!

Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G890A using Tapatalk