How to Use Your Four Wheeler for Turkey Hunting

Turkey Blog with Steve Hickoff

How to Use Your Four Wheeler for Turkey Hunting

Posted 2017-04-25T05:25:00Z

Four Wheelers for Covering Some Hunting Ground

An ATV or Side-by-Side (SxS) can help you cover a lot of ground in a short amount of time. Turkey hunting from a four wheeler in places such as the Tennessee mountain country are almost essential to locate and hunt spring gobblers in hard-to-reach areas using rugged trails along steep rises.

How to Use Your Four Wheeler for Turkey Hunting (c) Van Holmes photo

Check out our photo blog for ways to find turkeys in big country with your four wheeler.

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Locate Turkeys
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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.

(Van Holmes photo)

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

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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.

(Van Holmes photo)

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Cross Creeks
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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.

(Van Holmes photo)

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

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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.

(Van Holmes photo)

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Hunt the Afternoon
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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

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Turkey hunting is a beautiful tradition and continuum of days, weeks and years, from the first time you ever saw America's greatest game bird in the wild, to the last hunt you'll enjoy this spring turkey season. Give thanks for each day.

And get back on your four wheeler the next morning to spend some time with the wild turkeys again.

(Van Holmes photo)

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