014b: Fall Turkey Hunting Tips with Steve Hickoff

The Turkey Hunter Podcast with Andy Gagliano & Cameron Weddington | Turkey Hunting Tips, Strategies, and Stories

Andy Gagliano

Hobbies, Wilderness, Leisure, Sports

4.6 • 547 Ratings

🗓️ 30 October 2014

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Steve Hickoff is an author of several books and too many magazine articles to count. Steve hunts turkeys 8 to 9 months out of each year, and he particularly enjoys taking his turkey dogs out into the Fall turkey woods in pursuit of a great hunt after a successful turkey flock bust. In this episode, Steve Hickoff, shares Fall turkey hunting tips with us so that we can have more successful turkey hunts. Steve shares his thoughts on using decoys in the Fall, what to do if you get a bad bust on a flock of Fall wild turkeys, and his most recent successful turkey hunt and the one or two keys for success to that hunt. If you want more Fall turkey hunting tips, then please purchase a copy of Steve's book titled, Fall and Winter Turkey Hunter's Handbook. The book can be found on Amazon.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the turkey hunter podcast with me, your host, Andy Galliano.
0:19.6	In this podcast, I share with turkey hunters just like you
0:22.8	how to have more turkeys on your hunting property and how to have more successful turkey
0:27.3	hunts. I teach you how to do this with tips and interviews with turkey hunting pros,
0:32.7	wildlife management tips, and entertaining turkey hunting stories.
0:36.6	Tune in weekly as I share proven and simple strategies to help you have more success this turkey season.
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1:02.9	your turkey hunting photos from this past season and let us know where and when you killed your bird.
1:07.5	For all of you Twitter users out there, please follow me on Twitter, where my
1:11.2	handle is at Turkey Hitman, and I will be sure to follow you back. And now, for this week's show.
1:21.0	Hello, and welcome back to this week's episode of the Turkey Hunter podcast. You are listening to part two of episode 14, my interview with Steve Hickoff, well-known author and turkey hunting fanatic.
1:36.5	And in this part of the episode, Steve is going to tell us his thoughts about using decoys while hunting in the fall.
1:43.3	Steve is also going to share with us
1:45.1	the story of his most recent successful turkey hunt and the keys to success for that hunt. So without
1:51.7	further ado, let's jump right into this part of the episode and I look forward to seeing you on
1:55.8	the other side. Do you use decoys when you hunt in the fall? You know, I don't too much. I have
2:00.5	used decoys before. The either-sex opportunities being legal, sometimes you have to think about public and private, how many people will be on the property and so on.
2:09.8	True.
2:10.8	As with all decoys, if there isn't a lot of turkey, if there isn't a lot of movement in that fake, I don't think that it works in the hardwoods or on a ridge in the big woods.
2:23.0	You know, I don't think they actually see that in my experience as a decoy.
2:28.0	Now, with a spring gobbler, you've got that, if you've got it in a pasture, and that bird comes looking, and he sees what he's expecting to see,
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