| Rio Grande Turkey 2
| We offer a system for turkey hunting success proven by many good turkey hunters over a good many spring seasons. Once allocated a membership the hunter accesses the association lease maps. The next step is to call and speak to Jon Nee or John Wenzel for recommendations where to turkey hunt right down to property numbers. More leases will be offered than time to turkey scout or hunt. Draw down aerial photos from any one of the many free websites. From the turkey hunting spot recommendations from the Association staff and review of the aerial photos rank order all properties from the ones most desired to hunt to the least. At this point options are being developed- a significant advantage from our large acreage. Make a telephone reservation to scout pre season or scout and turkey hunt during the season. Pre season scouting planning factor is 3 quarters per day. Each quarter is a 160 acres. Schedule three for each pre season scouting day you have. Find a minimum of two roosts. Come back and hunt them during the season turkey season. If pre season scouting is not possible plan a during season scouting and turkey hunting trip.
Travel out and immediately start a slow approach turkey hunt and scout of the first property as soon as able to get boots on the ground be it first morning or arrival day afternoon. The objective is simply to identify roost locations through pre dawn gobbling or watching return to roost movement. Set up on the roost on the second day. By noon the second day assess whether to remain on that property or change the third day turkey hunting reservations to another farm. Adjust accordingly making reservations as you go. The motivation for making telephone reservations is that is the means by which we know where any hunter is so we do not schedule anyone else for that lease while a hunter is there. By that process all turkey hunt alone and we can recommend hunters away from leases that were immediately hunted before their arrival.
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