Turkey Camp

 

Learn to Hunt Turkeys | Washington State

Turkey Hunting Course | Supported Hunts | Home-cooked Meals

Spring Season  |  Kettle Falls, WA

Join us in the “Wild Turkey Hunting Capitol of Washington” to gain a holistic foundation of skills and knowledge upon which to build a lifetime of hunting turkeys. If you are new to turkey hunting or want a refresher, this course will cover the essential components of the hunt in detail. Then put what you’ve learned to practice with a few days of hunting. This is not a guided hunt and there are no guarantees; we aim to instill the skills and confidence to get you out hunting without the need for a guide while offering nourishing meals at our home with continual scouting guidance and hunting strategy support. If you wish to engage fully in the hunt we want to help.

What’s Included:

  • One-day Turkey Hunting Course (see Course Topics, below)

  • Two+ days of turkey hunting

  • Nourishing, healthy meals: dinners and breakfasts and coffee (lunch provided during the course day; bring your lunch/snacks for hunt days)

  • Daily guidance on where to hunt with maps (virtual scouting); help with gear and strategy

  • Turkey processing assistance and facilities

  • Camping: choose from timbered creek-side or meadow sites; optional private cabin upgrade

Registration Details Below

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Turkey Hunting COURSE TOPICS

  • History & Philosophy of the Hunt

  • Planning, Preparations & Equipment

  • Regulations & Laws

  • Tracking and Wildlife Identification

  • Hunting Strategies

  • Scouting & Maps

  • Calls, Decoys, Blinds

  • Locating roosting birds

  • Shotguns, Shooting & Patterning

  • Field Dressing, Processing, and Caring for the meat

2025 Course/Hunt Dates

  • SOLD OUT | 2026 schedule TBA. Sign up for our newsletter to receive updates.

Pricing

1.5-day course + 2-day hunt

Includes course, meals listed above, camping and hunt strategizing. Course starts the evening of the arrival day with locating roosting birds and continues first light the next morning with a mock hunt with decoys and calling to birds coming down from the roost.

  • $1,500 Adult

  • $750 Accompanied Child

    Don’t let finances be a barrier for your participation. We have need-based scholarships and financial assistance available. Learn more about our scholarship program.

Accommodations + Upgrades

  • Camping, outdoor shower, sheltered composting outhouse, and back porch lounge included with course

  • Private rustic cabins with 2 beds available for upgrade

You will need: a shotgun and ammo (or bow or muzzleloader) and a valid WA hunting license and turkey tag; sleeping bag and shower towel (and camping gear if you elect to camp). See link, below for a full list of recommended gear.

Returning Alum?

Contact us about available space for camping and joining the group for meals.

Take your Turkey Hunting to the Next Level

 

Testimonials

It will be with me for the rest of my life.

Bruce,

I took your turkey hunting course in spring 2022, and came home yesterday after my first successful turkey hunt.  I wanted to thank you again for organizing the course, sharing your knowledge, and inspiring me to take this journey.

It's been a fairly long one.  During your course I managed to call in a tom on public land off the Orin-Rice road, but spooked him and lost my shot.  That experience was nonetheless electrifying, and it stuck with me.  I hunted outside White Salmon in 2023, and returned to Orin-Rice road in 2024, striking out both times.  This spring I aimed a little further south of you, at Gary Wolf's Alder Creek Ranch between Hunters and Fruitland.

And this time, it all came together.  Observing, calling, choosing terrain (a hill above the ranch sparsely covered with pines), placing decoys, practicing patience.  

I didn't know that at the time, of course -- as I settled down on the hillside I thought the morning rush was over, and that my latest calls would likely be as ineffectual as the ones before.  But five minutes later, I saw a tom approaching silently out of the corner of my eye.  I was shocked, breathless, the same way I had been in 2022.  A moment later another tom appeared alongside the first.  By the time they reached my decoy they were almost side by side, a mere 10 yards away, and I knew I would not miss.  The pictures tell the rest.

This is my first hunting story, one I've already told my kids more than once.  It will be with me for the rest of my life.  I don't think I'd have this story -- I doubt I'd have had any of this strange and complicated experience of becoming a hunter -- if it weren't for your willingness to reach out to, and welcome, people like me.

Thank you again and best of luck with your teaching and other work.

Brian

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