Turkey Hunting

Technology in the Tree Stand

Have you ever been scouting and found great signs, and wanted to record the location, or even take a photo for when you return in the fall?  Paper and pen never worked to good for me, so I looked into an application for my smart phone.  What I found is an app called Huntin’ Buddy for Android.  This program is REALLY cool!  It lets me setup a hunting trip and add events – an event can be a sighting, sign, missed shot, wounded, or found animal. When you record an event it automagically stores the weather, location, time and date, and it even allows you to attach a photo or video from your phone.  I will have to try it out and post a review, as of now, I like it!  It does all of the things that I want, and it is a pretty good GPS to help keep me from getting lost!

Information automatically logged for you:

Other information you can add to any event:

Android apps at AppStoreHQ

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No Turkey for Mother’s day this year :(

I only had a few days to hunt, and I was pretty excited to hear gobblers the night before my permit.  It was just about sunset when I hit the owl call and a couple Toms gobbled back.  In the morning I setup right where I heard the birds, but they roosted the other side of a swamp and would not cross it to come to me.  So when they stopped gobbling, I headed to the woods on the north side of the road and bumped a flock of birds, there was a tom at full strut, a couple jakes and about 4 hens.  I was so mad that I spooked them off.  The next morning I cam back and had gobblers and hens talking all around me, but the weren’t buying whatever I was selling!  So to make a long story short…  i didn’t have enough time to really work the woods and was unable to score a bird this year.

Can’t wait for turkey season…

This will be the first year I have hunted turkey in a few years.  I am starting to get excited about it.  My son and I got drawn for our hunt – 2nd week of the season.  We have seen a lot of birds migrating into our area in Oakland county, so we decide to try our luck here rather than driving upstate somewhere.  In the past we always hunted in the thumb.  Our results were mixed; there were times when we saw birds EVERYWHERE, and there were times that we were lucky to hear a gobble.

The question we are asking ourselves…  Do we hunt with bow and arrow, or the ol’ smoke pole?  I think the mornings that we go out together, we will take the shotguns, and the mornings that are solo, I will take the bow.

Since I have never gone after Turkey with a bow, I need to learn what the best strategy is.  I have talked to some guys about this and have heard a few different view points…

• Gobbler Guillotine and take off the head
• Fixed blade broadhead and take a heart shot
• Fixed blade and take a shot to the upper thigh

…the upper thigh thing caught me by surprise.  A guy at Bass Pro Shop told me that he has shot them in the heart and they would either fly away or run away and never be found.  So he told me the last few birds he has taken, he shoots them in the upper thigh and they can’t fly or run.  Thought it was a little weird but it makes sense.

What is your preferred turkey bow kill?

Time to start talking TURKEY!

Turkey hunting is one of the coolest hunts I have ever done!  My son and I started Turkey hunting a few year ago, and got hooked.  It is an awesome sport, because it’s you against the Tom.  Unlike deer; the turkey can see like a hawk and hear like an elephant.  They’re also very skittish, so hunting turkey is a challenge like no other.

Remember…  January 31st is the last day to submit for a turkey license.