SECRETS FOR BAGGING BOW GOBBLERS WITH DAVID HALE AND MARK DRURY

The Two-Man Team

EDITOR'S NOTE: A bowhunter truly challenges himself when he tries to take a longbeard with a bow. Instead of bagging a gobbler at 40 yards with the slight movement of a shotgun, a hunter who wants to take a bird with a bow usually must hunt the wary gobbler at 20 yards or less. Then once he gets the bird close, he has to draw, aim the bow and release the arrow at a very small target. To learn the best way to bag your gobbler with a bow, two of the nation's leading turkey hunters, Mark Drury, the founder of M.A.D. Calls, now a division of Outland Sports, and David Hale, one of the founders of Knight & Hale Game Calls, reveal their bow-gobbler secrets.

Often David Hale recommends that sportsmen form a two-man team, which includes a bowhunter with turkey-hunting experience and a caller who'll manipulate the bird. "In a two-man team, the archer generally has at least hunted turkeys before with a gun, knows what a turkey probably will do and realizes when to draw and shoot," Hale explains. "This bowman can focus all his attention on the turkey and not have to divide his attention by deciding when to draw the bow, when to call and when to take the shot." Using these systems of hunting from days 2 and 3, you can match your turkey-hunting knowledge and archery skills to the task of taking a bird.

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