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<blockquote data-quote="Captain_Ahab" data-source="post: 5833120" data-attributes="member: 562719">The great thing about turkey hunting is that every mature gobbler is a trophy. No horn **** here. In MO you can shoot jakes (1 year old gobblers) so i guess that could be considered not a trophy.The ideal hunt is to be at a top of a ridge before daylight and listen for gobbling. Once you hear a bird gobbling, go to him, get about 100-150 yards away (as close as you can without spooking him) and try to call him in.There are a TON of birds in the Mark Twain Nat&#039;l Forest. Way more than I have ever heard before anywhere other than a pay hunt in Texas. And ya&#039;lls birds are a lot more unmolested than ours our. They are a lot more willing to come to calling. The easiest thing would be for you to go to Wal-Mart, invest in a slate call, and buy an instructional calling DVD, or read about the types of calls on the internet. All you really need to know how to do is yelp,cluck, and purr. Nothing fancy at all, and you can learn it in ten minutes. Don&#039;t worry about all that crap the pros do on TV. The biggest thing is patience. A bird may take two hours before he finally comes in.I&#039;ll warn you though, if you go, and you get to work a bird, you will be addicted!</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Captain_Ahab, post: 5833120, member: 562719"] The great thing about turkey hunting is that every mature gobbler is a trophy. No horn **** here. In MO you can shoot jakes (1 year old gobblers) so i guess that could be considered not a trophy. The ideal hunt is to be at a top of a ridge before daylight and listen for gobbling. Once you hear a bird gobbling, go to him, get about 100-150 yards away (as close as you can without spooking him) and try to call him in. There are a TON of birds in the Mark Twain Nat'l Forest. Way more than I have ever heard before anywhere other than a pay hunt in Texas. And ya'lls birds are a lot more unmolested than ours our. They are a lot more willing to come to calling. The easiest thing would be for you to go to Wal-Mart, invest in a slate call, and buy an instructional calling DVD, or read about the types of calls on the internet. All you really need to know how to do is yelp,cluck, and purr. Nothing fancy at all, and you can learn it in ten minutes. Don't worry about all that crap the pros do on TV. The biggest thing is patience. A bird may take two hours before he finally comes in. I'll warn you though, if you go, and you get to work a bird, you will be addicted! [/QUOTE]

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