What is the best turkey hunting book (tactics) you ever read?
My favorite turkey hunting book is "Tenth Legion" by Tom Kelly.
I really like cuz stricklands book the truth about spring turkey hunting. While it doesn't cover alot of tactics it's very well written and makes you fell like your there with him! It's one of my favorites.
I just read the excerpt from "Tenth Legion", sounds good and that guy can obviously write so I will enjoy reading it but I am looking for something more educational.
Ronnie Cuz is one of my favorites and I will read his book just for fun as well. That guy has his head screwed on right!
I am looking for something with scouting, locating, and hunting tactics. I have never really tried serious turkey hunting and I would like to learn.
Thanks for your responses!
Bowhunting for Turkeys by Jack Brobst. I bought it from one of the sponsors here, but I can't remeber which one!@#! It is an older book, 1984, but he had at that time killed more than a dozen and he uses only longbows and recurves. Last I read, he had taken upwards of 40 birds, I believe. I googled it and there are a few copies available at different places. Good luck! Mike
definitly Jack Brobst, great read! i have killed many longbeards but looking for my first trad kill now. nothing like hearing a big ole boss gobbler light up the morning!
My sentimental favorite is The American Wild Turkey by Henry Davis. Lucky enough to have an original copy in the family and a now deceased family member who I understand knew and hunted with Mr. Davis. Getting to hunt his ground in Florence County with renewed and restored turkey populations is one of my most cherished blessings.
I read the Tenth Legion a couple years ago and plan to read it just before each season from now on. Tom Kelly comes alive as the turkey hunters I remember from my youth. I didn't know anything about bow hunting then and to me, they were the "real" hunters in my young mind. Turkey hunting was hard in those days and dedicated turkey hunters loved it that way. There's no doubt in my mind that I gravitated to trad hunting because I was raised by the Tenth Legion. When I read Kelly's lines about a man who kills a turkey with a bow should get to wear a sign that says "I'm a better man than you," I still chuckle out loud.
I'm getting fired up just typing this stuff.
Thanks guys, I am going to check those out as well.
For a serious turkey hunter (bow or gun) the Tenth Legion is a "must read". You might even get some insight into hunting deer with dogs...read the book and you will know what I mean...might also add that he is 100% dead on. Wonder what he would say about hunting turkeys from a pop-up blind....or I guess I really wonder "how" he would say it.
The American Wild Turkey by Dave Harber
Over 50 Years of Trukey Hunting by Wayne Bailey.
Old Archibald Rutledge had a good book about 'ol timey turkey hunting in the Lowcountry of SC, a good read if you can find it. I liked Jack Brobst's book as well, for a bowhunter's perspective.