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Turkey Hunting is Frustrating Part II
Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:21 am
Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:21 am
After several days of rain and zero gobbles. I finally was able to set up on a bird gobbling good on the roost this morning.
Slipped in, put my deke out, eased back to the tree and got ready. Meanwhile, the turkey is still gobbling at almost every crow within a half mile.
Slip my slate out and make one series of soft free yelps.
Silence…and he never gobbled again.
Slipped in, put my deke out, eased back to the tree and got ready. Meanwhile, the turkey is still gobbling at almost every crow within a half mile.
Slip my slate out and make one series of soft free yelps.
Silence…and he never gobbled again.
This post was edited on 4/9/23 at 9:22 am
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Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:40 am to geauxbrown
So he found his hen. Go eat breakfast and get back out there when he's done with her and starts cruising...I leave at 9:30 so I'm ready at 10.
Posted on 4/9/23 at 9:55 am to geauxbrown
I’ve always found that when it’s cloudy/rainy birds gobble on the roost then shut up after flying down
Posted on 4/9/23 at 10:16 am to geauxbrown
Hunt him in afternoon after he breeds
Posted on 4/9/23 at 1:15 pm to oleyeller
Best to see where he goes after flydown. Many times he has a daily rondevou with a hen, in the same zone.
I did exactly this good friday 21, and ended up with a full strut mount. I actually called him off of a real hen. Took 20 minutes. I knew where to set up in the dark. And it was not a roost site. The 8 am strut zone is where you need to be.
I did exactly this good friday 21, and ended up with a full strut mount. I actually called him off of a real hen. Took 20 minutes. I knew where to set up in the dark. And it was not a roost site. The 8 am strut zone is where you need to be.
Posted on 4/9/23 at 2:16 pm to Mizooag94
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.I leave at 9:30 so I'm ready at 10.
Works almost everytime for me....and for the rest of the day for that matter.
Posted on 4/9/23 at 7:07 pm to geauxbrown
Love hate relationship. I killed one yesterday morning before the rain
Posted on 4/11/23 at 3:32 am to geauxbrown
Amen the are demons
Posted on 4/11/23 at 9:52 am to TutHillTiger
Gloster miss. Heard nothing
Posted on 4/11/23 at 7:08 pm to ole man
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Gloster miss. Heard nothing
Heard one 20 minutes south of there on private yesterday. He won’t be gobbling anymore though.
Posted on 4/12/23 at 9:27 am to Theduckhunter
Bastard
Posted on 4/13/23 at 9:32 pm to ole man
You know where i hit always consistent...Walmart turkeys don't gobble but dang they good.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 3:11 pm to arczr2
Opening day here tomorrow. 50 percent chance of rain early though... Any experience chasing in the rain? Do they still move?
Posted on 4/14/23 at 3:50 pm to calcotron
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Any experience chasing in the rain? Do they still move?
Got any fields around?
Posted on 4/14/23 at 4:20 pm to calcotron
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Any experience chasing in the rain? Do they still move?
They're gonna do something, but they might not do anything.
I've seen turkeys stay in a tree for most of a day during really bad weather, but I've also seen them feeding in a field and doing turkey stuff when it was sideways rain that stung.
I'm going tomorrow in the rain with plans to either go home early if I don't hear anything or stay all day trying to find one. Will see how it goes. I've killed a many of them, but never killed one in my yard.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 5:32 pm to tenfoe
They seem to change our hourly forecast every hour, very helpful. Could just be cloudy. We're going to be around hardwoods with some clearings. New turkey territory, I have worked the deer nearby but not in the exact spots. Of course it's public land, so we'll see if Bubba gets there first or rolls up with some electric calls and decoys.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 6:39 pm to calcotron
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They seem to change our hourly forecast every hour, very helpful. Could just be cloudy. We're going to be around hardwoods with some clearings. New turkey territory, I have worked the deer nearby but not in the exact spots. Of course it's public land, so we'll see if Bubba gets there first or rolls up with some electric calls and decoys.
Similar forecast here. Gonna get up at 4:00 and check radar. Don’t worry about bubba the other public land hunter. Get there early. Get to a spot you can hear well. Go to the gobbling turkey and try to get as close as you can before you call to him. Get in a place you can kill him when/if he comes to look for you before you call to him. After that just let him tell you what you need to do. There’s no best strategy, only a combination of highest percentage strategies and scenarios that may align to work out. Just stay after them and don’t spook them. As long as you don’t spook him you can still hunt him. Good luck.
Posted on 4/14/23 at 10:20 pm to tenfoe
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I'm going tomorrow in the rain with plans to either go home early if I don't hear anything or stay all day trying to find one.
If this statement doesn’t describe how frustrating yet addicting turkey hunting is, I don’t know what does. We’ve gone three days straight without hearing a thing and my plans are the same as yours for tomorrow. Posted on 4/15/23 at 3:15 pm to geauxbrown
My 9 year old got one hell of a taste of bittersweet turkey hunting this week. Property line turkeys on a small tract. Hunted 4 mornings, heard more gobbles inside of 200 yards than maybe any person in state of MS that didn’t end up killing one. Even had 2 closing in from opposite directions Friday that never materialized. Some of the most thrillingly frustrating time I’ve ever spent in the woods in 30 years of hunting. I asked if he was ready to give up and he said he was just getting more determined each day.
Posted on 4/15/23 at 8:19 pm to turkish
I have a question . Regarding flydowns in the mornings, since the 1980’s i have always observed that turkeys simply jump off the limb, and sail silently down to the ground. Most mornings you don’t even know that they are down until he gobbles.
But, in the EVENING, they do make alot of racket flying UP.
I think alot of folk get this morning & evening mixed up. Doing a wing & cackle sim in the morning isn’t too natural.
But, in the EVENING, they do make alot of racket flying UP.
I think alot of folk get this morning & evening mixed up. Doing a wing & cackle sim in the morning isn’t too natural.
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