I find a field where they can come out to find some sunlight to warm up when its cold like that. I am no expert though, just some advice that has been passed to me from some good turkey hunters. I am getting rain the next two days but will be sunny on opening day. I was trying to write my school paper on my back deck yesterday evening and I heard what I think was 3 gobblers going nuts for about 3 hours. Makes focusing on my school work really hard. As far as times, I have been told early season listen for the hen and mimic here to a T. If she calls 7 times you do the same 7 times. I was told not to try and call in the gobbler, but to piss off the boss hen and she will bring the Toms to you. I usually have good luck calling Toms after 9:30/10-noon. I killed my bird at 10am last year. I hope to put bird up this weekend.
My wife called me at work today to let me know she could hear a couple of Tom's goggling down the the bottom. Good times!!!!
From what ive found each tom likes different calls. Tonight I was just messing around and had a long beard come in but he liked the yelps and the purs but would shutup when I started cutting. Sometimes cutting will get them really fired up. Not this guy. Season doesn't start til april 20 for me but I was just playing. I could've killed this one. Im so pumped about getting out there.
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Last year I was using a diaphragm call I thought was the best one, I also had one I thought was complete crap. I ended up calling in a tom with the “crap” call that day. They are picky birds. I also had some trouble getting one to come to me until I started to use an excited yelp, he never came all the way to me, but he did start coming back to me.
Well I had one come in, 50 yards behind me and hung up. Lost interest and back into woods. I pooped then hit the gobble call and tom and hen coming running back. Still hung up at 50. Went back into woods. Not a bad way to start the day. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Funny I was just reading an article in the ntf magazine about late morning turkey hunting and that the author has had great success with birds after 10am. Lonely toms lookin for loving. My season is apr 29-May 5th. Trying to arrange getting off for work on 2 of the days. I bring my bow and my shotgun with. If a bow shot is presented I'll take a tom with that but if not, the 12ga goes to work.
I think I read that same article. The hard part I think is to be where they are when the hens pair off with toms and someone gets left out. For me and the flock I've been working, they come off roost at first light, hang around for a while and head west to parts unknown. They are long off the ground I can hunt by mid morning.
I actually shot my first tom (26#; 10 3/4" beard) just before dusk. He came in from about 150 yds. Last year i shot mine at 9:30 in the morning. I called him from a nearby property. There were 5 toms gobbling from 1st light and kept answering my calling till that boy came in.
This bird is killing me. He crossed 80 yards and paid no attention to my decoys. Hour later he crosses back, same thing. Now he's on another property taunting me. It's personal now. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Sounds like my luck. I can get them to gobble back at me before they come off roost but once they have feet on the ground, they head off in the opposite direction. I haven't been able to call one in since last Sunday.
Well first day of bow season and its a hot windy sob! But that's not going to keep me from chasing some birds! Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
In the last week the turkeys have really started showing themselves. They are starting to feel comfortable, hopefully that will lead to an encounter once the season opens. We'll see what happens. A lot can change in 2 weeks.........................
13 Days before I hit the woods for a bird. I plan on taking a week day trip to the property to prepare for a ground blind and do some more scouting. I've had hens hitting a feeder every day for the last 3 weeks! Hopefully the toms check out the local diner on the 20th.
Me and my boy struck out this past weekend in ky. Had some gobbling Saturday morning but the started out around 34 deg and about a 20 mph wind. He got cold so we packed it up. Still nice to be out there. Cant wait for ohios youth season to come in. Im ready to get some birds down!
Got out this evening, saw my Tom, hung up again. Then got the video.https://vimeo.com/124676115 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
I'm going out tomorrow morning again. Going to try a different spot. The first flock that I was working is wise to me I think.
I quit. This tom is just messing with me. He comes close, but stays out of range. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
If you asking why people are having different length arrows for turkey then the reason is riser clearance. The Tom bomb is bigger and heavier so some have to get longer shafts to bring out the blades away from the bow. I will be using rage hypodermics. I love those broadheads.
This has been going on for 10 min now. https://vimeo.com/124741027 Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
