New Fall Turkey Season?

YEP...'tis TRUE!!!

Joe,

First welcome...although a relatively new forum, seems like a great place & a great group of people (to me at least!)! Hope you stick around!!!

As to your question, yep...'tis true!!! There will be both an archery season AND a short gun season (5 days I think!) only in selected counties! There was a pretty strict formula used in determining which counties will have the gun season, so this year at least it will be pretty limited. I have not heard (YET!) the exact counties that were selected, however from what I understand is that it was any county that had 300 or greater birds taken, AND the surrounding counties had high numbers also (can't remember what the exact # they used for the surrounding counties part!)

Yes, on the second part too...it will be open to either sex!

I have been hunting in KY's fall season the last several years and it is a BLAST! The birds act completely different during this time of year and makes for an enjoyable hunt! Kinda like the difference in hunting whitetails in early September (ALSO KY!) versus hunting them come the second week of November or so!

Give 'er a try, I think you'll enjoy it...besides, whitetail hunting is still pretty slow then anyway!

 

Sounds great! I have never hunted turkey before. During the springtime I'm either fishing, putting the garden in or a hundred other things that have to get done around the house. I've always told myself to get out & try it, but you know how that goes.

While in the deer stand the past few years I've had turkey all around me several times. In 2002 I had bow shots at 2 toms. From what I have heard it's real tough taking a turkey with a bow from a stand, but I'd love to try it.

Have you heard if the season will be running at the same time as bow season?

Thanks for the info,
Wanatah

 

Fall turkey calling...

Well, really your best bet is to just use the soft calls…purrs, kee-kee’s, etc. Turkeys just aren’t really very vocal that time of year and therefore fall turkey hunting is more akin to deer hunting IMHO…more “ambush” style hunting! Just like the deer, turkeys are on a ‘feeding pattern’ that time of year so if you can locate where they are feeding, you are halfway there!



One thing that we have found that does work well in the fall (will also work to some degree in the Spring for that matter!) is to purposely break up/scatter the flock, then set-up and make soft calls like a lost hen when they are trying to group back up!



BTW- I did hear the dates, but can’t remember what I was told!:bonk: The archery season should coincide with early archery for deer...but can't remember what they said about firearms! I am doing another hunter’s ed class in a couple of weeks and will find out for sure then! As soon as I do, I will certainly let you know!!!