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Korby Taylor host of The Wild Game Hunting Podcast

So, Korby, let’s just jump right into that and talk about turkeys and whitetails.  Absolutely. Yeah, like I mentioned, I love to hunt both of them and there’s a little bit of difference when it comes to obviously hunting two different types of animals. But you’re going out generally into the same areas and using some of the same techniques you would whitetail versus turkey. Korby Taylor host of The Wild Game Hunting Podcast

But I’ll tell you what. One of the things that just comes to my mind just right off the bat before we jump into some of the how to’s and different things like that is this time of the year when…like I said, the sun is out today. It’s a beautiful spring day and it just reminds me of turkey hunting and I want to get out in the turkey woods. But one of the benefits of turkey hunting is it’s actually a great time to be scouting for next year’s deer hunting, because this time of year, you get in there right at the end of the winter as the spring is coming on, and you can still see the deer trails pretty well. Because by the time summer comes around and you’re out doing that pre-season scouting for your hunting stance for whitetail, a lot of times the grass is so grown up. You can’t even hardly find the game trails anymore. So this is a great time to do some scouting.

you get in there right at the end of the winter as the spring is coming on, and you can still see the deer trails pretty well.

So when I’m turkey hunting, I’m also scouting for deer next year, and so you’re kind of killing two birds with one stone. So that’s one of the major advantages that I’ve discovered in turkey hunting and being a turkey hunter and a whitetail hunter is you can kind of kill two birds with one stone.

One of the things when it comes to turkey is, for the most part, you call turkeys into you. And for the most part, when it comes to deer hunting, you’re just waiting and letting them come to you. But obviously as whitetail hunters, we like to rattle, and grunt, and try to call in deer. So when it comes to that aspect of whitetail hunting, turkey hunting can really help you because you’re doing a lot of calling. You’re trying to figure out how to strategize, how to plan, come up with a system to get the turkeys to you by your calling. When do you call? Are you calling too much? Are you calling too little? What barriers are in the way between where that turkey could be coming in to where you are?

totally different type of call obviously when it comes to rattling and grunting

I’ve discovered that a lot of that is true even though you’re doing a totally different type of call obviously when it comes to rattling and grunting. You’ve got to use a similar process. You’ve got to think about how often do you rattle, how often do you grunt, how loud. If you see a buck, do you do the same thing if you were just doing some blind calling so to speak. Korby Taylor host of The Wild Game Hunting Podcast

So just right off the top of my head, those are a couple of the similarities that stand out to me that are the same as far as whitetail hunting and turkey hunting.

Bruce: Let’s talk about the setups. Everybody knows you have to be in the right place. You can owl hoot or whatever to get the gobblers to call off the roost. But how do you pick your setups? And how does that parallel how you set up your tree stand or set your box blind or ground blind? Korby Taylor host of The Wild Game Hunting Podcast

how you set up your tree stand or set your box blind or ground blind

Korby: Yeah. So there’s a lot of ways that you can turkey hunt just like there’s a lot of ways that you can hunt for deer. A couple of the more common types of setups would be what I call right-off-the-roost hunting. You’re basically setting up an area that would be very close, preferably within 100 yards of where you either know or anticipate a gobbler to be roosting. Because obviously every night, they fly up in a tree and they roost.

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