Editor’s Note: Trey Montgomery of West Greene, Alabama, has been hunting turkeys for 46 years and guiding turkeys for 30+ years at the Lakes of Leavellwood. Although most beginning turkey hunters think that successful turkey hunting depends on their abilities to call turkeys, Montgomery has found over the years that several critical ingredients are needed to consistently take a longbeard. This week, we’ll explore Montgomery’s techniques to help you hunt turkeys more effectively.

I’ve learned that you have to hunt turkeys every opportunity you have, and probably not the same turkey. I’ve learned that there are no two turkey hunts that are just alike. There are very few times when you’re calling to a gobbler that he’ll come from the direction you expect him to come. Even though you do everything right, a predator can spook a tom, other hens can get to him before he reaches you and cause him to walk off, or there’s some barrier he doesn’t want to cross – like a creek, a river, a scrub or a place where he’s been shot at or spooked before- may be present. On the day a turkey comes straight to you, you’ll remember that time forever. When that happens, you’ll probably think you are the world’s most excellent turkey hunter and know everything about getting a turkey to move to you.

However, if you hunt the next morning, that gobbler you try to take on your second day may serve you a big slice of humble pie. More than likely he’ll win the day, and you and your hunter will lose. That’s why I love turkey hunting. You must understand that every gobbler is different; each has a distinct personality, and each has various things they will and won’t do. If you figure out that you don’t know everything you need to know to kill this one turkey, you’ll try various techniques that you may not have ever attempted before. Hopefully, you’ll try one of those tactics sooner or later, and it will work for you.

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Check out John E. Phillips’ 12th book: “Turkeys: Today’s Tactics for Longbeards Tomorrow“

Expert Guidebooks on Turkey Hunting: Best Sellers

Turkey Hunting Tactics
This turkey hunting audiobook has entertaining chapters like: “How to Miss a Turkey”, “Hunting with a Guide”, and “The Turkey and the New York Lady”.

You’ll learn about all the subspecies of turkey across North America, how to use a turkey call, how to scout before turkey season, how to find a turkey to hunt, and what hunting gear you’ll need to put the odds in your favor to take a wily gobbler.

VERSIONS: AUDIBLE, KINDLE & PRINT

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How to Hunt Turkeys with World Champion Preston Pittman
You easily can take a turkey if you don’t make any mistakes, but you have to know what the deadly sins of turkey hunting are to keep you from making those mistakes. If you understand how to hunt a turkey, you’re far more likely to take a gobbler than if you just know how to call a turkey.

Of course, calling is important, and if you want to learn to call a turkey, Preston Pittman will teach you how to call turkeys with box calls, friction calls, diaphragm calls, and other turkey sounds.

You’ll also learn why Preston Pittman once put turkey manure all over his body to kill a tough tom.

When you have turkeys that strut and drum in the middle of a field, when you know there’s no way to get close enough to get a shot, Pittman will show you some weird tactics that have worked for him to help you hunt tough ole toms.

But the main thing you’ll learn in this book is how to become the turkey.

Using what he’s learned while hunting wild turkeys, he’s also become a master woodsman who can take most game, regardless of where he hunts. To learn more secrets about how to be a turkey hunter from one of the world champions of the sport, this turkey-hunting book with Preston Pittman is a must.

VERSIONS: AUDIBLE, KINDLE & PRINT

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The Turkey Hunting Guides’ Bible
The quickest way to learn how to turkey hunt successfully is to either hunt with a turkey hunter with years of experience or a turkey-hunting guide. These two types of turkey hunters have solved most of the problems turkey hunters ever will face. 

Just as one size of shoes won’t fit every person, one style of turkey hunting doesn’t fit each hunter.  Each turkey-hunting guide interviewed for this book has his own style of calling, hunting, and outsmarting turkeys.  

While listening to this book, make a list of the new information you’ve learned, take that list with you during turkey season, and try some of the new tactics. Then you’ll become a more versatile turkey hunter and prove the wisdom from The Turkey Hunting Guides’ Bible.   

VERSIONS: AUDIBLE, KINDLE & PRINT

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Outdoor Life’s Complete Turkey Hunting (2nd Edition)
This Audible book will help you learn how to call turkeys with two of the nation’s best, longtime and well-known turkey callers, Rob Keck, formerly with the National Wild Turkey Federation, and Lovett Williams, a wildlife biologist who recorded wild turkeys giving the calls that you’ll learn how to make on various types of turkey callers.

VERSIONS: AUDIBLE & KINDLE

 To see all of John E. Phillips’ turkey-hunting books, go to www.amazon.com/author/johnephillips.