Over here in the "jungle", use the same setup as I do in the spring fer the most part. We can hunt turkey with a bow, then loader (can ya see that pile of mincemeat?) and then durin gun season. Funny thing is, most people round here run dogs so if ya see some turkey that the dogs have stirred up why then you just take a whack at em. That is probaly how most fall turkey is killed round these parts.
Alot of times I just like to hunt fall turkey...period. Since there is alot of dogs & people stirrin them up all the time they scoot around alot which makes findin em harder than usual. (Which makes it more fun anyway)
I start by sittin by the creekbeds before light and listen to em fly down. Most times hens do alot of cluckin when the come down offa roost too, so you have that to guide you.
If I was too lazy to git up that mornin, I hit a pine lot or, on a rainy/windy day, I'll glass a field.
I have never sat in a blind and turkey hunted. The one thing that a turkey almost constantly does is make noise. They walk like elephants, run their mouth all the time and they do that almost all day. I will stalk the birds instead of sittin most times. Unless you walk like an elelphant, run in and out of sun and shade all the time, run yer mouth like they do or try to git close enuf to pet em, you can successfully do it and without much ado either.
In the thick woods here, a turkey can walk within 30 yards of you and might not never see it. I stalk em cause I'd rather have the advantage of sight than them have the advatage of cover, so it might be totally different where you live.
Now if I could only git good enuf to stalk deer ...lol
