The Turkey Hunting Guides' Bible

by John E. Phillips

Overview

The quickest way to learn how to turkey hunt successfully is to either hunt with a turkey hunter with years of experience or a turkey-hunting guide. These two types of turkey hunters have solved most of the problems turkey hunters ever will face. They don't always get their birds, but they're far more experienced than anyone else I know. Since writing this book and from hunting with some of the best turkey hunters and guides in the country, I've learned that the more experience that turkey hunters have in turkey woods, the more likely that they'll be successful. Too, each turkey-hunting guide has his own style of calling, hunting and outsmarting turkeys.

In this book, you will learn that successful guides:

* call a little, and wait a lot;
* call a lot and wait a little while;
* call so softly you barely can hear them;
* call so loudly that their calling will seem to knock the leaves off the trees or blow your head off;
* run to a gobbler at first light and try to take him as soon as he hits the ground;
* won't even try to call a turkey while the longbeard is on the roost, but will wait until the bird flies down and establishes the route he'll travel that day;
* leave a gobbler that's reluctant to come within gun range and hunt different turkeys they believe they can call in quicker;
* move as slowly and as quietly as possible as they go to turkeys;
* walk fast, and scratch the leaves as they walk to make gobblers think they are hen turkeys coming to them;
* crawl to get really close to turkeys to take their shot;
* won't crawl if they can't get turkeys to come in to their calling;
* believe that the most-important part of their hunts is teaching the people they're guiding how to hunt turkeys; and
* believe that the most-important part of the hunts is getting a tom turkey within gun range for the hunters they're guiding.

Just as one size of shoes won't fit every person, one style of turkey hunting doesn't fit each hunter. That's why we've also asked several hunters why they hunt with different turkey-hunting guides each season.

Over the years, I've learned that regardless of where and what race of turkeys you hunt, each gobbler has his own likes and dislikes. While reading this book, make a list of the new information you've learned, take that list with you during turkey season, and try some of the new tactics. Then you'll become a more-versatile turkey hunter and prove the wisdom from "The Turkey Hunting Guides' Bible."

Product Details

BN ID:	2940157118730
Publisher:	Night Hawk Publications
Publication date:	07/26/2016
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

For the past 42 years, John E. Phillips of Vestavia, Alabama, has been a fulltime outdoor writer, traveling the world interviewing captains, hunters, guides, fishermen, outfitters and other outdoorsmen about how they hunt and fish. An award-winning author, John has been hunting for many species of game and fishing for both saltwater and freshwater fish since his kindergarten days with his dad and brother. He’s had the good fortune to hunt with top outdoorsmen in about every field. He’s also traveled across the U.S. and in other parts of the world as a newspaper writer, a magazine writer, an outdoor photographer and a radio host and for the last 18 years as a provider of outdoor internet content for numerous companies daily. John also is the recipient of the 2012 Homer Circle Fishing Communicator of the Year Award from the Professional Outdoor Media Association and the American Sportfishing Association, was chosen as the 2008 Crossbow Communicator of the Year and was inducted into the National Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame as a Legendary Communicator in 2007.