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Most I have met agree that turkeys aren't as smart as deer. Of course neither are squirrels, ducks, rabbits, or most anything else other than preditors in my opinon. So why do you turkey hunt? This applies to the "turkey first guys" more than almost anyone I guess but I'll answer first.

I turkey hunt because of the daily game. It's like speed chess vs. tournament chess with deer (or sometimes electronic email chess). Each day is a new, secrets to location deminished motivation obvious (breed for turkeys kill for hunters) and the mobility is super refreshing in the blossoming days of spring.

I guess the older I get (a whopping 27) the more I value the excuse to get outside for any season but trukey really fits the spring.

Good luck this weekend boys!
 
You get to interact with the hunted animal so much more. You call, they gobble back ( hopefully) LOL Its a warm time of year. You dont sit there like a knot a log just waiting like you typically do for deer unless your one of those green patch blind turkey hunters. Its also a close range sport with a shotgun or bow where deer is more of a longer range unless you just bow hunt. Anyway, I think the main thing is just the interaction, getting the gobbler to work to your calls. I am finding myself enjoying turkey maybe more than deer more and more lately.
 
I could give you a bunch of different reasons why I do, but the fact is I have to turkey hunt. It is a genetic disorder that requires me to play the game day in and day out each spring and travel to several different states all over the US each year. I have to have it.
 
I love the challenge. I love the fact that what worked on an old gobbler today most likely will not work tomorrow and may never work again. Every day is a new day and every turkey is a different personality, thus the task at hand is never mundane and always exciting/challenging in some form or fashion. Oh yeah, the spring weather is typically awesome in many ways and spring turkey hunting is usually action packed. Did I cover it all, LOL? :D
 
More fun than deer hunting.
You can laugh, cut up and have fun with your hunting partners more.

Weather is more comfortable....sometimes.

You can either call him in or run and gun his butt.

A deer might walk by and he might not, many times a turkey is killed because of something you did or didn't do.

Too many reasons to list really.

I do know if I was able to I would hunt every single day of turkey season and travel to as many states as I had to in order to do so.
 
It's an addiction that I have to feed. Some people get adrenaline rushes from various things but I get it the minute I step into the turkey woods. Its way more interactive than deer hunting and a lot more fun to me. I could write a book on it. I tell people all the time if they don't need another hobby to not go turkey hunting because that first gobble up close will have you hooked for life. I'd give up half of deer season for one more week of turkeys. I love it!
 
Because it's not sitting in a stand for hours on end. I get to move, strategize, interact with turkeys. Don't get me wrong, deer hunting with a bow (All I hunt with) will always be my passion, but turkey hunting is just such a change of pace for me. Plus I use it to scout for deer hunting places! lol
 
smstone22 said:
You get to interact with the hunted animal so much more. You call, they gobble back ( hopefully) LOL Its a warm time of year. You dont sit there like a knot a log just waiting like you typically do for deer unless your one of those green patch blind turkey hunters. Its also a close range sport with a shotgun or bow where deer is more of a longer range unless you just bow hunt. Anyway, I think the main thing is just the interaction, getting the gobbler to work to your calls. I am finding myself enjoying turkey maybe more than deer more and more lately.
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The gobble and the strut. I love hearing them gobble and watching them strut. There is no feeling in the world like slipping in and hitting that hoot owl and having multiple birds gobble.
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turkeys are responsible for getting me into hunting.

started fishing when I was 11. Never was into hunting until the fall of 2009 when some birds went behind our house on thanksgiving. I ran out and busted them all over the place cause it was fun.... Now it wasn't the first time I had seen them, but for some reason they sparked an interest that day. I started thinking of ways to kill one. That eventually led to reading up on the TWRA web site, then aggressive research on turkey hunting and watching youtube videos.

I went turkey hunting for the 1st time in the spring of 2010. With a friend (an old fishing buddy) who took me to one of his spots out in dickson county. We had a bird come in close but shy away from the strutting decoy.

Next spring (2011) I took on turkey hunting on my own, on public land. killed my first bird then, 2nd saturday of the season, which was my 3rd solo hunt. It was a jake and I have yet to kill a longbeard. I killed hens last year in the fall season for the meat, but it was still a fun hunt even though I wasn't playing the game with the gobblers.

Now I am hooked... well I have been since I started. I've said this before but Tndeer has been a huge help with all the advice I have gotten from people.

Bottom line... there's just nothing like having a longbeard hear your own calls and gobble back, and get fired up and put on a show for you. Man I hope I kill a longbeard this spring. A jake is better than nothing but a longbeard is what I'm after now.

Also I am hooked on the meat. Darn good stuff and never enough of it on a bird.
 
to kill turkeys. revenge for the times they have spooked deer or busted me and alerted deer and ate all my acorns. and they taste perty good.
 
It helps with the "ITF" syndrome I have. (ITCHY TRIGGER FINGER) Usually flares up bout Feb and Sept the most.
 
I turkey hunt because, I feel like if I don't kill and eat them, they're going to kill and eat me. On a more serious note...it's a drug, an addiction, and the best medicine made, all in one.
 

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