What is the #1 key to Turkey Success?

[rangerforme]

For me hunting and killing turkeys is pretty easy if you are around a solid population of birds, I'd have say the key to turkey hunting is finding the right property with good # of birds and getting permission on it.

Calling, decoying all very secondary in my opinion.

[DonBo]

Hard to beat a good spot, you're certainly right about that. Sitting in a spot turkeys want to be makes us look like heros. After that, patience has put more birds on the ground for me than anything else.

I think calling is important, but GOOD calling isn't necessary. Calling and conversing with the birds is the true essence of spring turkey hunting, without it much of the allure will be gone.

Decoys work. Sometimes. Good decoys work WAY better than the cheap old decoys.

[Archerysniper]

Spend more time scouting then hunting,it's a lot easier to make the birds come to a spot they want to be.

[ANYFISH2]

+1^^

Happy birthday by the way archerysniper!

[Wanderer]

+1^^

Happy birthday by the way archerysniper!

+2 on the Happy Birthday!

I'm going with patience as the #1 skill to learn in order to have success. This of course only works if you're where the birds are.

Chicken or the egg type of thing tho.

[ChrisT]

To me, it all depends on what you consider sucess. I love to get agressive, I want a bird coming in full strut and screaming. I am not the kind of person who can sit in a blind, take a nap,and wake up just in time to see a bird strutting in my decoys. I would say that my biggest key to being able to accomplish a sucessful hunt is to be ultra aggressive. I want to get myself positioned between his roost and the field he is going to. This year ment me sneaking to within 75 yards from their roost. Nothing better than a jake with a hen beating a tom to the field.