Best Turkey Hunting Blinds, Turkey Calls, and Newest Products

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By Randy Godwin

Wild Turkey Hunting Season Is Almost Here

After a long cold deer hunting season it’s time to enjoy turkey hunting as spring looms ever closer. Just being in the woods while the trees and undergrowth turn that special shade of green is worth the time spent there. Your turkey hunting blind is comfortable plus it makes you almost invisible to the elusive tom.

Choosing the best turkey blind and other essential accessories can make the difference in whether you succeed in your quest of a long bearded gobbler. This article about turkey hunting blinds, calls, and other great items is intended to give you a choice of the best quality turkey hunting products at the lowest prices.

Last year's gobbler- a blue headed romeo

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A closer look at the strutting dandy
A closer look at the strutting dandy

And his blushing admirer!

Best Cheap Turkey Blinds

KillZone Hunting Turret Pop-Up Ground Blind Turkey Deer 3Y
Amazon Price: $170.99
KillZone Hunting Pop-Up Ground Blind Turkey Deer with Zero Detect Camo 7M
Amazon Price: $59.99
List Price: $170.99
Ameristep 814 Tangle Camo Doghouse Blind
Amazon Price: $57.99
List Price: $79.99

What's The Best Blind For Turkey Hunting?

Turkey hunting ground blinds have become so reasonable in price that any wild turkey hunter can afford one of some kind. The pop-up type blinds are especially user friendly for those not mechanically inclined or can’t decide where to hunt till the last minute. Check out the reviews.

The KillZone Hunting Pop-Up Ground Blinds featured here offers great features such as a great water repellent camouflaged finish with plenty of windows for optimum visibility. Its scent dampening agents make it great for deer hunting too. Check out the customer reviews on this product.

The Ameristep Doghouse Blind is another quality pop-up ground blind which serves well for wild turkey hunts. Ameristep has several other models to choose from to suit your needs and pocketbook. Make your choice before turkey season begins.

Best Slate or Friction Turkey Calls

H.S. Strut Voo Deuce Turkey Slate Style Call
You simply cannot beat the low price for this friction turkey call!
Amazon Price: $18.09
List Price: $19.99
Hunters Specialties Li'L Deuce Double Slate Over Glass Friction Pan Calls
Another great Hunter's Specialties turkey call.
Amazon Price: $9.99
List Price: $16.99
Primos Power Crystal Call
Amazon Price: $15.99
List Price: $31.99

Calling In a Big Gobbler

The first wild turkey hunters, the Native Americans, used the wing bone from a turkey as a call to lure them in closer. These earliest Americans considered their turkeys to be gifts from their Great Spirit. Nature provided a means to help duplicate the call of the wild turkey.

Fortunately for us modern day turkey hunters, we have several alternatives to choose from. But then, we have a choice to do things the easier way. How lucky we hunters are.

From the traditional mouth and slate calls to the latest in electronic devices, the following selection includes every type turkey call you could possibly want.

Calling a big gobbler in close is the biggest thrill of the hunt for many. Slate calls are the current favorite of experienced hunters. Here are a few examples of fine turkey calling slates.

Impressing The Hen

Best Mouth Calls For Turkey Hunters

Hunters Specialties Squealing Hen Mouth Squealing Call
Amazon Price: $11.95
List Price: $19.99

Are Mouth Turkey Calls The Best?

Mouth calls were good enough for the early turkey hunters to utilize, and some latter day hunters would use nothing else.

The several different types of mouth calls offered here let you really bag a tom the old fashioned way. And who’s to say it isn’t the best way after all?

But it takes a little more practice to master one of the diaphragm mouth calls. So be sure to get an instructional DVD mouth call package to start you off right.

Box Friction Turkey Calls

Quaker Boy 13603 The Box Turkey Call
Amazon Price: $14.47
List Price: $14.99
Primos Box Cutter
Solid mahogany box with jatoba lid for perfect sound. Low price too!
Amazon Price: $19.99
List Price: $41.99

Best Traditional Box Turkey Calls

For many new entrants to the wonderful sport of wild turkey hunting, the traditional box call is the easiest and most enjoyable to use. It is not unheard of for these great little turkey calling boxes to be coveted by the heirs of notoriously successful turkey hunters.

Besides being very useful at enticing the gobblers closer to your turkey blind, they also are irresistible as conversation pieces in the off season. Because they are so easy to use, they are often the first choice of turkey hunting wannabes.

The calls offered here are well made for years of successful turkey hunting and for just playing with too! Check out the low prices for a great turkey call.


Best and Latest Turkey calls

Cass Creek NOMAD Turkey Call
This wireless electronic turkey call gives the illusion of a moving hen to lure the gobbler close in. Up to 3 extra receivers available to enhance the effect.
Amazon Price: $24.95
List Price: $74.99
Cass Creek Ergo Electronic Turkey Call
5 electronic turkey calls in one! Low priced!
Amazon Price: $22.99
List Price: $29.99

Today's Newest Turkey Calls

There are some really great new turkey calls on the market which makes it even easier to call the old tom closer to your turkey blind. One hand use makes these calls popular for those hunters preferring to hunt alone instead of with a caller.

While some are used in a somewhat traditional venue, others use the newest electronic technology to replicate the calls of a wild tom or hen turkey during mating season.

All of these turkey calls are well made and easy to use, especially designed for the novice or experienced turkey hunter.

Choose the best one for your own particular use or as a gift for someone who enjoys the sport of wild turkey hunting just as much as you do.




Educate yourself about turkey hunting

Hunting Tough Turkeys
Amazon Price: $12.45
List Price: $21.95
Turkey Calls and Calling: Guide to Improving Your Turkey-Calling Skills
Amazon Price: $6.48
List Price: $22.95
Wild Turkey: Expert Advice for Locating and Calling Big Gobblers (The Complete Hunter)
Amazon Price: $11.09
List Price: $21.95

Turkey Hunter's Books and Information

Learning turkey calling or blind placement from experienced turkey hunters always helps beginners to the sport. These detailed books cover all aspects of this great pastime.

From picking the best hunting spot, to perfecting the ideal turkey call, these informative books will give you tried and true methods of the needed turkey hunting basics.

Good luck on the upcoming turkey hunting season and enjoy your time outdoors in our wonderful wilderness. I hope a big gobbler answers your call to visit!

Comments

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glowingrocks 15 months ago

Nice hub.

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

Thanks for reading and commenting, glowingrocks!

Randy

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Teddletonmr Level 3 Commenter 15 months ago

Chasing the ole thunder chicken, is there a better way to try out a new turkey call?

Use a trusty ole box call to locate a gobbler, tell him what he wants to hear with a custom slate call, and close the deal with a good double reed mouth call.

Using pop-up blinds or runnin and gunnin!!!

Thanks Randy for another great hub, hub up and useful. Mike

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

Sounds like you might have aspired for a drumstick on occasion yourself, Mike! A great time to be outdoors down here, whether you bag a turkey or not.

Thanks for the great comments, Mike!

Randy

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Teddletonmr Level 3 Commenter 15 months ago

A wild turkey drumstick makes good jerky, on the other hand, turkey breast lightly breaded and deep fried. Now that is good eats.

A good turkey hunt in my mind is all about getting in the woods, and enjoying all nature has to offer. Not simply the harvesting of the game we try to learn how to outwit.

Learn, hunt hard and educate the unbelievers. Mike

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

You are indeed correct about the turkey breast, Mike. Domestic turkey cannot compare with the taste of a wild one. We usually only eat the breast cut into small chunks and fried. Almost as good as fried wild quail.

Thanks again!

Randy

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Teddletonmr Level 3 Commenter 15 months ago

Amen brother, spring is just around the corner, my dreams are filled with outsmarting the ole boss hens, gobblers, and warmer weather.

Let us not forget firing up the electric turkey fryer I won at a NWTF banquet a few years ago.

Mike

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Hello, hello, 15 months ago

Thank your, Randy, for such a fascinating read. Our turkeys are in 10 Downing Street and you are not allowed to shoot them. lol

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

@Teddletonmr-By all means Mike, get that turkey fryer ready! Better stock up on peanut oil too!

Thanks Mike!

Randy

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

LOL! Hello,hello! I know what you mean about those types of "turkeys." Thanks for stopping by and for the humor!

Randy

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scubadoggy 15 months ago

Hey, that's great! I live in Atlanta, and I never knew we had turkeys in this state! You just don't see many turkeys walking the streets of Atlanta, but then again, maybe you do!

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

Hello scubadoggy! I'm not sure about Atlanta, but there are plenty in the southern and very northern parts of Georgia. I was snowed-in in Blairsville one Christmas and saw plenty there.

Thanks for checking out my hub and for the comments!

Randy

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ubalildon 15 months ago

i really enjoyed your hub

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 15 months ago

Thanks for the nice comment, ubalildon!

Randy

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Tellin' The Truth 14 months ago

good stuff Randy, but all you need is that primos box cutter under your calls. LOL. those are the MVP of turkey calls in my book.

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Randy Godwin Hub Author 14 months ago

You may be right,TTT! Just filmed a rep for Primos demonstrating a variety of animal and bird calls a few weeks ago. It's HD so I haven't finalized the video yet for Youtube so I can''t display it here either.

I appreciate your input and your time!

Randy

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