Turkey Hunting At Its Best

You roost the birds late one spring evening in a “scaly bark” river hickory down in the lower 40 swamp. After a dinner of fried quail and all the fixings, you bed down for an early rise to hunt the big gobbler you roosted the night before. Beep, beep, beep, beep…the alarm softly signals it’s 4:30 a.m. and time to rise, dress, grab a cup of coffee and take to the woods. The guide drops you off and you stalk in to within 75 yards of the roost tree.

You ever so gently ease into position and rest your back against an old water oak you had spotted the previous afternoon. It’s about to break day and you can begin to make out shapes and hear the “wake up” calls of the woods. Almost like clockwork you hear the “whoop whoop” sounds of the turkeys flying down from their roost.

Yelp, yelp, puurrrr, you begin to mouth call to the old gobbler. Cluck, cluck, cluck, puurrr. The morning stillness is rattled by the rapid fire gobble of old tom and it sounds like he’s headed your way – at a fast pace. Lifting your shotgun to your knee you scan the breaks in the palmetto in front of you and strain to see any movement. Gobble, gobble, gobble…”on my gosh, there’s a gobbler off to my right moving in and he’s right on top of me. Now I’m working two birds and …”

This face paced action is business as usual at a Wilkes Creek turkey hunt. Year round management of bird habitat encourages an excellent hatch out that is monitored annually by a wildlife biologist. Continued “best practices management” of the land for turkeys that includes employing the newest proven techniques for improved health are regularly employed. For the guaranteed hunt of a lifetime and more fun than watching drunk monkeys play marbles, contact Wilkes Creek Plantation today to book your hunt.