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Focus Your Pre-Season Scouting

Hi, I'm Jay Churchill. I had an awesome spring turkey hunt this year, probably one of the best I've ever had in my whole entire career. I got into the area really early. We walked in, struck our birds, scrambled to get a good set up, we were actually on the side of a rocky outcropping, that had a beautiful vista in front of us, hard woods, wide open.

Setting Up For Turkey On A Field Edge

Alright guys, we've got a turkey gobbling down the other end of the field, just through this hedge row which connects to another field. We're going to talk a little bit about why I'm set up right here. As you can see, we've got good cover out in front of us. I've got good back cover here. I'm in a little bit of the shadows. It's allowing this real tree camo to work the way it was designed.

Use A Goose Call As A Turkey Locator Call

Here's something a little different for you on a locator call. You know, owl and crow calls have been the number one calls to locate turkeys for years. I use a goose call.

Knight And Hale Discuss Hunting Turkeys During Transition Period 5

Folks, we're discussing transition period number five today that turkeys go through. We've already gone through the first four. You pick a state, pick a date and pick the zone that you're in and we're going to tell you exactly what transition period those turkeys are in and how to hunt them. And Harold, this could be a tough time; it can be an easy time. What are these turkeys doing this time?

Knight And Hale Discuss Hunting Turkeys During Transition Period 4

Well, folks, once again we're here today to tell you about changes that the turkeys are in from one transition period to the next. We're in transition period four. We've already gone through three of them in the past three or four weeks. This week we're going to talk about when these turkeys get lonesome. They get call shy. They got all the things that's going on with them and they get tough to call up. Harold tell us exactly what these turkeys are doing in transition period number four.

Knight And Hale Discuss Hunting Turkeys During Transition Period 3

Folks, we're talking about transition periods again today. We're in number three. We've been through the previous first two transitions and these are the times turkeys change. Every 15 days there's some kind of a transition they go through, all dictated by the hen. The gobblers are just there following along doing whatever the hens tell them to do.

Knight And Hale Discuss Hunting Turkeys During Transition Period 2

Folks, what we're talking about is transition periods of turkeys. There's five different transition periods these turkeys go through. Last week we discussed transition period one and how to call up those turkeys. This week we're going to talk about transition period two.

Harold Knight And David Hale Explain Turkey Breeding Transition Periods

Harold one of the things I'm excited about in doing our spring airing this year is talk about the transition periods turkeys go through. I don't want that to sound difficult, but you have about five different transitions these turkeys are going to go through. And that's going to be transition one, two, three, four, five.

Knight And Hale Discuss Hunting Turkeys During Transition Period 1

Folks if you missed your show last week, we talked about the transition periods turkeys go through. Pick a state; pick a date. We've got the United States broke down into three zones. You tell me what zone you're in, what dates you want to hunt the turkey and we're going to figure out exactly how to hunt those turkeys.

Picking The Best Position For Setting Up At The Base Of A Tree

One of the things I'm going to look at here when I'm setting up on this bird is the area around me. I've got a field off to my right. And I've got a stream over my shoulder to the left. I've got open hard wood straight out in front of me. I have a feeling the bird's not going to come this way because it's just too thick and I have the stream behind me.