Turkey Hunting Tips | Wild Turkey Hunting Strategies, Techniques & Guides

A large part of success in turkey hunting is determined by your ability to call your prey. Since sneaking up on turkeys is out of the question and stalking them as you would another kind of animal is too difficult, you need to call the turkeys in to you. Of course, not all turkey calls are created equal. There are certain kinds of calls that are right for certain kinds of situations and figuring out which call you need to make when will make all the difference in the world when it comes to getting your turkey. The six basic turkey calls listen here will work for a number of different scenarios.

One of the most basic turkey calls is one that is intended to sound like a female turkey, or a hen, yelping. To yelp like a hen, you need to make a series of high pitched – almost screech like – noises in short, frequent bursts. The hen uses this yelp in a number of different ways to mean a number of different things, but all you need to worry about is the fact that this yelp alerts the male turkeys that a hen is in the area, drawing them in – which of course means they are coming in closer to you.

• Continue reading or Comments (0)

How did the turkey become the symbol of Thanksgiving? The turkey has long been a symbol of Thanksgiving, but how did it get to be this way? The wild turkey, scientific name Meleagris gallop ova, is a native bird to North America. The wild turkey was a staple of the North American Indian diet for many centuries. The Spaniards were the first to bring back North American turkeys (procured from Mexico) back to Europe in 1519. The tamed North American turkeys had made it back to England by 1524. How did turkeys get their curious name? The reason they are named turkeys is that the Spaniards imported them by passing through a route that took them through the country of Turkey. In those early days, the wild turkeys were confused with the guinea fowl, and both were often called turkeys. Even after the wild bird was assigned its scientific name, the common name of turkey persisted, and persists to this very day. Curiously, a common Native American name for turkeys was peru. This made no reference to the South American country of the same name. Also interesting is the fact that the Pilgrims brought with them several domesticated turkeys on their long voyage to America in 1620.

Early History of the American Turkey

• Continue reading or Comments (0)