Scattering fall flocks

[ksp771]

Though I have only been hunting Turkeys for about 4 years now I have a found love for fall hunting, in fact the colder the better. This season 2005 I was fortunate to have time to be in the woods more than ever! I looked at my callendar and found that I had only missed 11 days of the whole seasons combined.
I have never been successfull at scattering fall flocks and have usually set up between where they roost and feed. As soon as they fly down I wait for my opportunity to harvest using clucks, light soft yelps, and the usual Kee Kee's mixed with Kee Kee runs. I have had no success using a blind. What meathods do you all use in the fall that are different than mine?

[ril7572]

I love to wait near the roosting area at flyup time. Then scatter the birds as they are flying up for the night. The ideal time is when some of the birds are already in the trees and some are still on the ground, ready to fly up for the night. I then slip back in the same area before daylight the next morning. The birds have been seperated all night and are ready to get back together. If i bust up a group of gobblers, clucks from a tube call seem to work great. If it's a group of hens and poults, yelps and kee-kees work best. Fall hunting is a blast when it works right.

[RutNBuck]

ksp ril7572's post was right on the $$$ and something you might want to consider is now that ky allows the use of a dog to scatter the birds...and i believe you mentioned recently that you was in the hunt for a new pet BINGO ...that way you'd have things covered more ways then one

[scratch]

being a fall hunter myself ive broke down and bought a dog......works great

[Tha' Hat]

Scattering works wonders if it's done correctly, especially on hens and little ones. Haven't had as much luck scattering gobblers, so I usually try and play it safe when I'm working with a flock of those. I actually don't like shooting gobblers in the fall, because then they aren't there in the spring, but I don't pass up shots when I get them.

I've taken a bunch of scattered fall birds with a gun, but I got my first one, a little bitty hen, this year with a bow. I actually didn't have the flock scattered that well, but she scattered the farthest. I spied her out in a field all by her lonesome about 30 minutes later and it took about 4 clucks before she was in my lap.

Ambushing works as well if not better in the fall, but it's sure not as much fun as scattering!