Opening Weekend of Turkey Season - LA

Going to be my first attempt at turkeys Sunday & Monday. Not sure what to expect other than a lot of walking and learning. Hoping I get lucky.

Listen more than you call.

Yea season gets pushed back and the weather is gonna suck. Typical. Oh Well, I took off work Saturday so I'm going.

Hopefully the rain will stop early Saturday. The wind will be high, but they should do some gobbling when it breaks.

Good luck all!

I’ll be out there. Best time to go is when you have time....

Heading to the Tensas area in the am.

Where you headed to in Oklahoma? I'll be there in two weeks chasing public land birds

Heading to a buddy's place south of Tulsa. I made a hunt in Texas opening weekend and killed 3, should have been 4 but a yote ruined it. I did kill a freaking stud of a rio though. Had 1.5in spurs, 9.5in beard, and weighed 23lbs. Rios just don't gobble like a damn eastern. I grew up hunting Georgia and with me starting a new job time off has been hard to come by. I am taking off the first week of may and gone hunt family land in Georgia which is about 2k acres. I can normally kill my three birds in 2-3 days and not hunt super hard. I usually go the 2nd weekend in april though so I hope some are still looking for love by then.

If you can kill easterns, you can kill rios no problem. The two birds I killed with one shot the 2nd day of season in Texas came from a LONG ways off. When I first heard them I wasn't sure it was a gobble. Then before I knew it that had cut the distance in half but was on opposite side of river. I made a big loop got the their side of river, threw out avian-x half strut jake over laydown hen and a breeder hen and made one call. They gobbled at about 100 yds and within seconds I saw them running to the decoys. They didn't get to beat up on my jake too bad before they had a face full of lead. Every Rio I have killed has responded a lot better to calling and gobbles a lot more than easterns usually.

I don't live in Georgia anymore. My family does. Its in Candler and Tattnall counties. My mom and stepdad have 300 acres then we lease 900 right down the road and my grandparents own about 1200 but only about 600-800 of it has birds on it. The rest is fields with no woods around.