One month away until Turkey Season

Ready!

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They hammerin on our lease. Heard 5 yesterday morning

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Nice!

Every year when I go to a deer stand in the woods, they scare the shite out of me flying up to roost.

Anybody going to the turkey seminar at Bowie's on March 4th?

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I'm ready just hope they don't start too far ahead of the season. Seems like the could be gobbling early and done early if we aren't lucky...

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This is not how it works, but hunting when all the hens are sitting on nests is the absolute best turkey hunting condition.

Must protect the birds by killing raccoons, bobcats, and coyotes

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Speaking of seasons, next year it's likely turkey season will be pushed back a week and open the first week of April

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This in Louisiana?

Try explaining that to the group in NLA. They don't seem to believe what 90% of other turkey hunters do.

They are damn near proclaiming an apocalypse because some hens appear to be laying eggs already.

That's just wrong. All of it

Gobbling does not = breeding.

You can hear turkeys gobbling this morning I guarantee it

As far as deer, their rut is based on photoperiod as well. It doesn't matter the temperature outside. When their estrus cycle clicks in (which will be the same time every year). It doesn't matter if it's 100 degrees or 10 degrees outside they will be rutting. Temperatures will dictate how intense the rut will be because a buck will tire out quicker chasing does when it's 100 defeees outside but the rut is still taking place.

There are then secondary ruts 28 days later for does that didn't get bred and tertiary ruts 28 days after that. This is does that didn't get bred and a few of the fawns that are coming into estrus their first time

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That's just wrong. All of it Gobbling does not = breeding.

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Then you don't hunt or spend much time in the woods.

Breeding activity also means a lot more than just putting the P in V to fertilize and that's what matters to us hunters.

The biological reason they breed according to daylight is because that's the best indicator of time of year for them to biological birth their offspring with the best chance to survive. But again, that's only one factor. Saying that's the only factor in breeding is 100% wrong. Weather 100% plays into breeding activity. It's biological to breed more and more hens during years of good weather in order to make up for the years of bad weather and bad breeding. This is how nature works, there are swings from good to bad. A gobbler isn't going to breed X amount of hens every year. Some years he'll breed Y amount, some X amount, and some Z amount. There's multiple factors that play into that and daylight is not the only one.

Furthermore, why do you think scientists think daylight is 'the' factor? Because every year that doesn't change, duh. Every year mid
March has the same amount of daylight no matter every other condition. It's the control in their studies. So yes, every year on average peak breeding is the same time. But logically, that doesn't mean in real life that all breeding only occurs during the same days. It's all just on avg.