How to Use Your Four Wheeler for Turkey Hunting

You can get male turkeys to shock gobble in spring by owling, crow calling and even running a box call from a high point. Yelping and cutting can sometimes allow you to pinpoint birds before you hatch a plan for hunting them. A four wheeler can help you cover ground.

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Bonus Read, with Audio: 10 Best Locator Calls for Turkeys

When locating gobblers works, a bird will sound off, either from its roost tree before fly-down or on the ground. Your next move is to get in your four wheeler and move to the bird. If it's close enough though, go there on foot, slipping into position where you can try to call it to you.

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Sometimes, while locating spring gobblers using your ATV or SxS, you'll start high and have to go low, often through mud and water, either small creeks or even swamps. Again, don't push too close to where you found the bird. Park your unit, get your gear and move to the turkey. After, set up to try and call that bird into range.

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Bonus Video: How to Use a Slate Call for Turkey Hunting

Use a Yamaha Wolverine R-Spec EPS, as we recently did in Tennessee, to get on turkeys.

A gun boot with a removable case can help carry your firearm safely.

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Morning hunts are traditional for spring turkey hunting, as gobbling activity is often at its peak.

Afternoon huntswhere legal (check your regulations), allow you to target birds too, and "put them to bed" as we say.

Roosting turkeys by listening in prime locations will allow you to know where to find them again the next morning.

(Van Holmes photo)

Bonus Read: How to Roost Turkeys Like a Pro