Author Topic: PA Fall Turkey Season (Read 414 times)

MLRowland · « **on:** October 24, 2004, 11:58:52 AM »

Fishman029 it sounds like you are really ready for those years Pa. Fall Turkey Season.What could of area will you be hunting and what is your stategy for getting you a turkey?Have you ever hutned them in the fall before?What kind of gun will you be toting?What kind of area and how big is that you will be hunting?Have seen turkeys there before.Go to where the foods are near there roosting areas.Get between the food sourse and the roost in the morning or the afternoon.If you really want to get aggressive try a scatter and call'em back.I have also heard of people run and gunnning for turkey in the fall.Strike a bird then sit down about call him or her in with fall calls match the birds you are call to.This is things that I have heard and I think would be things to try during the fall turkey season.Good Luck.

Steelbanger · « **Reply #1 on:** October 25, 2004, 12:36:52 AM »

Since I've got "shooters ears" and can't hear very well, I would never consider sitting in camo, calling, and possibly being stalked by another hunter. I wouldn't be able to hear turkeys calling or hunters homing in on the sounds I am making. For that reason, I hunt turkeys with a rifle, which is legal here in the fall season. Give me blaze orange, an accurate rifle, a long shot, and I'll be happy.

On Saturday, I will get to spend the first few hours with my granddaughter, who will be using my T/C Contender carbine in 22 Hornet. She has killed her first deer, using her dad's muzzleloader, on the opening day of our early season so our next priority is getting her a turkey. We will be watching soy bean fields and hope that our patience will be rewarded with a shot.

Incidentally, we hunt 4-E and have seen many turkeys while deer hunting this past week. Hope they stick around a few more weeks but sometimes they disappear and don't show up until after the season is over.

MLRowland · « **Reply #2 on:** October 25, 2004, 06:17:31 AM »

I think you should wear the hunter orange if you are hunting with a rifle too!But if there are mo other season with rifle hunting going on at the same time as the turkey hunting then I would just be in all camo.Good luck with you fall turkey hunting and be safe and wear that orange with that rifle season for sure.

THE#1hunter · « **Reply #3 on:** November 01, 2004, 02:06:26 PM »

Go with the orange..alot safer

MLRowland · « **Reply #4 on:** November 01, 2004, 04:43:10 PM »

I agree with the hunter orange with the rifle hunting for the turkeys.But in North Carolina where I hunt turkey in the spring and winter season where there are no other game being hunted during these two seasons.And they are hunted only with shotguns and archery gear.We wear all camo.

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #5 on:** November 04, 2004, 02:10:05 AM »

Well, to start off; my plan obviously was a bust. I headed into the woods @ 6:30...it was still plenty dark due to the imposing inclement weather. I know turkeys have been hanging around in this one little meadow (food source?)...sometimes in the morning and sometimes not. But...I figured it was a good place to start. Wore orange on the way in. Took the orange off at my spot...there were few good trees in the area I needed to be so I made due w/ a lopsided pine. 6:45 turned to 7:00. Looked like there were 3 of em' in front of me feeding...but it was still too dark to tell. Finally 7:20 light broke through the clouds and I could see clearly. Well, turns out they were just logs upright :eek:

. Hung out till about 8:30, then I tried what most do in the fall. Search and destroy...except for me...there was no destroy. Didn't see any or hear any all day. I was hunting my land plus 2 other tracts of land that I was given express permission on this year; for a total of probably 50-60 acres (and I covered almost all of it). I was using my Remington 870 Wingmaster with Remington Express #4's. Funny thing was back in October there was plenty of turkey movement. Had one nearly run me over

:-D . But...we know how it goes. They sleep in on the morning of fall turkey (or spring turkey for that matter)

Steelbanger · « **Reply #6 on:** November 04, 2004, 04:14:56 AM »

Me too Fishman 029,

I've seen one turkey since the seasn started, a small one @ 300 yds & that day I was carrying a 22 Hornet. I never even fired a Hornet that far so passed on the shot. I may get out this afternoon in the rain which is when they sometimes show themselves in the open.

Steelbanger · « **Reply #7 on:** November 17, 2004, 02:17:08 AM »

Yesterday afternoon I finally had a shot with my 22 Hornet T/C carbine which is scoped with a 10X Leupold. I was distracted, watching a buck feeding, when a flock of 15-20 birds came out on the sky line about 200 yds. away. As they came down off the top into safe shooting territory, they all looked on the small side so I'm looking for one that's a bit larger than the rest. As they quickly moved into the soybeans, only a few remained out in the open. More disappeared and there were only two left. I gave a sharp whistle and they stretched up, looking for the source. That was my only chance so I squeezed and fired. Bullseye, at somewhere around 150 yds., which I consider a long shot for the Hornet. Not a large bird, but our season ends on Saturday so I'm satisfied.

JPSaxMan · « **Reply #8 on:** November 17, 2004, 10:07:38 AM »

Congrats. I haven't been able to get out nor will I be able to go on the last day (I have to take a trip to Harrisburg) :cry: . Oh well. There's always that "late" turkey season, right?

:-D . Just kidding. Never would do that under normal circumstances. For those who are going out...best of luck and saftey to you!