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Turkey hunting question
Posted on 3/1/26 at 8:38 am
Posted on 3/1/26 at 8:38 am
So im a turkey hunter. I have a couple place i go eveey year that normally has a bird or 2 on it. Neither of which is behind my house. Have 100acres here, lived here for 42 years and never once seen a turkey on this land.
Well last spring about 5miles down they clear cut, and i had 3 hens show up. They stayed all summer and winter and still see them in my field. This week a gobbler has showed up and hangning with the hens every morning strutting.
So the question is, should i hunt that bird? Or should i let him be, let him breed, hope to establish some turkey? No one around me turkey hunts that i know of. But im not sure if i let him live if it is a bird that will hang around i may can hunt next yr or he is just here now for a couple weeks to breed these hens then gone forever. Obviously anything could happen with predators, but kind of conflicted if i should let them be and hope breed or hunt the bird
Well last spring about 5miles down they clear cut, and i had 3 hens show up. They stayed all summer and winter and still see them in my field. This week a gobbler has showed up and hangning with the hens every morning strutting.
So the question is, should i hunt that bird? Or should i let him be, let him breed, hope to establish some turkey? No one around me turkey hunts that i know of. But im not sure if i let him live if it is a bird that will hang around i may can hunt next yr or he is just here now for a couple weeks to breed these hens then gone forever. Obviously anything could happen with predators, but kind of conflicted if i should let them be and hope breed or hunt the bird
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Posted on 3/1/26 at 9:18 am to oleyeller
I would leave him be since you have other places to hunt
Posted on 3/1/26 at 9:19 am to oleyeller
Hunt him! If there’s hens, they’ll be more gobblers. Plant some clover, chufa, WGF sorghum, Pearl millet or anything that will attract turkeys.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 9:30 am to Koolazzkat
Haha. Those first 2 response is why im torn 
Posted on 3/1/26 at 11:21 am to Koolazzkat
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Hunt him! If there’s hens, they’ll be more gobblers. Plant some clover, chufa, WGF sorghum, Pearl millet or anything that will attract turkeys.
That’s just ambushing them. Not turkey hunting
Posted on 3/1/26 at 11:25 am to oleyeller
I see turkeys in my neighbors pasture almost every time I come back from turkey hunting. For some reason I need to drive an hour away to feel like I am actually hunting. I could get permission to hunt those turkeys but I wouldn’t feel good about it. Again maybe that’s just me but I do the same with deer. Chances are your gobbler will have bred those hens by the time the season rolls around so technically it shouldn’t hurt the population assuming one of those hens have a successful nest
I have seen places go from a couple turkeys to zero turkeys though because they shot every single gobbler off the place so take that with a grain of salt
I have seen places go from a couple turkeys to zero turkeys though because they shot every single gobbler off the place so take that with a grain of salt
Posted on 3/1/26 at 1:17 pm to Ron Cheramie
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have seen places go from a couple turkeys to zero turkeys though because they shot every single gobbler off the place so take that with a grain of salt
Yeah im not desperate to hunt the bird. Ill likely leave him be at least for first 4 weeks of season and see how my hunting is going. I would like to get them established here
Posted on 3/1/26 at 5:46 pm to oleyeller
I’d put him on a Hit List and name him Bob Marley. Wouldn’t mention Bob to anyone in Sunday school either.
Posted on 3/1/26 at 6:50 pm to oleyeller
If you don’t kill him the neighbor will
Posted on 3/1/26 at 10:59 pm to oleyeller
I’d wait till later in the season and hunt him, after he’s probably bred those hens, but just like he showed up this spring after them hens have been around, I’m sure another would next spring.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 3:09 am to bamadontcare
Exactly…and he’s not the only guy in town sowing seeds.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:10 am to oleyeller
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No one around me turkey hunts that i know of
If there is a bird strutting off the side of the road, there are people who have already made plans for him.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 4:43 am to DownSouthDave
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If there is a bird strutting off the side of the road, there are people who have already made plans for him.
Truth. If it’s visible from a road. Bird will be killed by you or someone else.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 6:11 am to oleyeller
To me the value of sitting on my porch and listening to him gobble in the mornings before work with coffee far outweigh me killing him.
If I decided to hunt him it would be in the last few weeks of the season to make sure the hens get bred. Lots of recent studies show when the dominant gobbler gets killed early in the season it leads to breeding issues which is contrary to what most of us think. I would keep driving to hunt and enjoy him....
There is a gobbler hammering on the limb in my back pasture right now, I hunt 2.5 hours away.
If I decided to hunt him it would be in the last few weeks of the season to make sure the hens get bred. Lots of recent studies show when the dominant gobbler gets killed early in the season it leads to breeding issues which is contrary to what most of us think. I would keep driving to hunt and enjoy him....
There is a gobbler hammering on the limb in my back pasture right now, I hunt 2.5 hours away.
Posted on 3/2/26 at 2:49 pm to oleyeller
By the time season opens, he will have already bred the hens. Kill him.
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