Turkey hunters early season?

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Thanks for sharing.

Is this about the LSU bowling team?

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Turkeys all died in that ice storm this year. Might as well sell your turkey stuff.

Thanks any reports from central Mississippi? I am going opening day to Delta wildlife near redwood to do some camp work and thought I would scout and hunt a little too.

Thanks that gives me hope. Maybe this year I will actually get one lol

I knew you and I were hoping a real turkey hunter would answer u but since they didn't I will try. I understand that they like warm sunny days the best

Yeah generally the better the day weather wise the better for turkey hunting. Rainy days can be very good though also, as well as overcast dark days as they prefer to be able to see so they get out in the fields more and their paths can be more predictable. Really windy days for example are very difficult to hunt them traditionally as it is hard to hear each other. Also, some birds don't like to gobble when its windy as it gives away their location but their eyesight is not as useful to spot predators as there is so much movement from the winds. So sometimes with fronts and what not it is better to kinda deer hunt them, set out some decoys where you think they'll be and sit and wait for longer than normal. Or do the opposite and cover as much ground as possible to find a bird that is vocal.

To answer above questions because I'm sure someone will chime in about it, gobbling and breeding don't necessarily coincide. So gobbling and the ability to kill them don't always either. But its usually a lot more fun and the most fun to hunt them when they are gobbling, whether they are breeding and willing to work or not. So often you can hear a bunch of gobbling but they are henned up or it can be too early to breed and they will gobble off the roost a bunch but not want to work. The good thing about gobbling though is that they can be found vocally and sometimes their paths can be predicted.

While everyone prefers to call in birds, the older I've gotten the more I have found that to actually kill them you have much more luck intercepting them by being where they want to go. Sometimes that includes calling, and sometimes not. But I now try more to figure out where they will go, and then call them. Then to call to them, and try to get them to come to me.