If you could go turkey hunt anywhere where would that be

[Bgoodman30]

You guys who don't care about chasing anything but easterns are really missing out... It isn't all about the 'killing' or 'slamming' for some of us, but more about the experience. Chasing them at nearly 9000' in elevation... Seeing species of wild animals you've never seen before...Wondering around majestic forests where you have no clue what half the tree species are... Finding elk sheds...Meeting other rednecks 1,500 miles away...'Celebratory' breakfasts at greasy mom and pop diners to experience the local cuisine. Visiting National Parks and other locations of interest along the way.. I could go on and on, there are a ton of aspects that make it awesome besides the killing part.

And I can guarantee you this.....Yeah, some of the other subspecies may be a bit 'easier' to kill (although I hesitate calling any turkey easy, almost seems disrespectful to me),but once you learn their habits, tendencies, how they use their habitat and terrain.. Just like with easterns, you'll become more effective at hunting them. Do it enough, and it will improve your game for these easterns at home too. Regardless of the subspecies, you can never learn too much about turkey.

Shhhhh don't let all the secrets out.. I still love those hard gobbling easterns though the western birds are crazy and aren't as easy as some might think.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Mexican Goulds

Is that them weird ugly turkeys?

Goulds are the prettiest turkeys there are. They have two extra tail feathers so their fans look and are noticeably bigger, and they have snow white tips.

You're thinking about the occelated turkey in central america. They look like a peacock and a guinea chicken had a baby. But with colorful warts and 2" spurs.

 

[Uncle Jesse]

OK yeah, you're right. Osillated huh.. Yeah they funny looking

 

[REN]

It's has nothing to do with sub species or record books for me. Just the shear awesomeness of hunting terrain so vast and different like WY or Idaho.

 

[Uncle Jesse]

It's has nothing to do with sub species or record books for me. Just the shear awesomeness of hunting terrain so vast and different like WY or Idaho.

Yeah this^ I like that thinking. I've been all over the East but never seen anything west of the Mississippi except I've been to Alaska but that's a whole nother world

 

[Uncle Jesse]

Flew to Alaska that is

 

[drake799]

I've never hunted the oscellated or the Gould's. But to me any experience I've had outside West Tn have all been equal. The diversity of the terrain is what makes the hunt. I love em all lol

 

[Longbow2240]

My Grandfather's old place we had as kid! Miss that place so much and would love the opportunity to hunt there again.


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[ruger7mag]

I loved Florida and wish I could hunt there every spring. I'll be in Wyoming in about a month from now and my expectations are high.

 

[cowhunter71]

Although I would like to extend my season one year by hunting public ground Eastern's up North, nothing rivals the challenge of calling to the gun, these hard pressured Southern Gobblers. Pressured Turkeys are tough to kill, no matter where you hunt them, but I've been out West, and them Turkeys out there are not in the same "class" of education as these Dixie Turkeys. Might have something to do with them not roosting to far from the domestication tree I'll be heading deep South, to hunt some of the toughest Gobbler's there are, at least in my opinion, starting next Saturday. No other place I would rather be the first week of March, than in a 60+ year old Cypress Strand, deep in the Big Cypress Swamp. Good luck to any of you "Old Schooler's" traveling South next week. Hunt 'um up

 

[timberjack86]

Although I would like to extend my season one year by hunting public ground Eastern's up North, nothing rivals the challenge of calling to the gun, these hard pressured Southern Gobblers. Pressured Turkeys are tough to kill, no matter where you hunt them, but I've been out West, and them Turkeys out there are not in the same "class" of education as these Dixie Turkeys. Might have something to do with them not roosting to far from the domestication tree I'll be heading deep South, to hunt some of the toughest Gobbler's there are, at least in my opinion, starting next Saturday. No other place I would rather be the first week of March, than in a 60+ year old Cypress Strand, deep in the Big Cypress Swamp. Good luck to any of you "Old Schooler's" traveling South next week. Hunt 'um up

Yeah I hunted rios in Texas and it was fun and I'd do it again in a heartbeat but that was the easiest bird I have ever hunted. Down there you can pick out the biggest tree that's usually near a creek and can almost guarantee that's where they are roosting. Best part was hunting in country that looks flat till you start walking it and turns into hills and canyons.

 

[Spurhunter]

Out west and the Great Plains chasing the white tipped Merriams is some of the best country side you'll ever see. The land is as vast and open and empty of people as you could imagine.

This is what I want to experience.

 

[Levee Jumper]

I'm partial to river bottom Easterns myself

 

[Ladys man]

Anywhere that's over populated so I could get my first one and get the monkey off my back lol

 

[catman529]

If money and time were not an issue, every state that has turkeys


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