what are some good turkey hunting areas and techniques in blue ridge georgia area?

Question

i have hunted turkeys before but never in such a steep area. i would appreciate any help or suggestions.

Answer 1

Hey jaybavet,

I haven't hunted turkeys out there in GA, I deer hunted a little south or Atlanta around Griffin and Jackson, but that terrain doesn't sound anything like where you're at. I have hunted some steep hardwood ridges here in OK though and it's a little different than hunting the flats in the bottoms. The main difference I see is that you don't always get to see them coming like you do hunting a field. We've had a couple fly right in on us. And we never heard anything out of them the whole time we were calling... just out of the blue they would drop in on us. The best results I've had is on tandom hunts with decoys. One guy running a couple of "feeding calls" just trying to sound like a small group of hens. And then every now and then I would try a little calling with my reed call or a goble box. The main thing though was to be completely set-up before we started calling, and have one guy ready all the time. We got caught un-prepared a couple of times just walking and calling and waiting for a hit, and next thing we knew they were trying to land in the tree's above us and we were no where close to being ready.

Note: The absolute most important lesson I've learned hunting steep areas is to hunt uphill from the truck... I know a turkey insn't nearly as hard to get out of the woods as a big deer, but you know how they are about flopping... I've had them bounce and get 8'-10' off the ground and really take off and be dead. If they did that on a steep hill side it could put you alot further down the hill from your ride than you might want to be. We dropped a small 70 lbs button buck at the bottom of a steep highline cute one time and it almost killed me and a friend of mine trying to get it out.

Goodluck!