Survey:: turkeys killed off field edges or in the woods

Im just curious. Im more sucessful off field edges but have did well in the woods.
gun or bow...just curious

 

I've killed more around field edges because I setup more around field edges...plus, a big chunk of woods around here is hard to come by.

My last bird was taken on a hardwood ridge though, and I plan on hunting the ridges alot more this year than prior seasons.

 

My only bird (2004) came from the woods. I called my dads bird (203) in the woods as well as my brothers (2007).

 

sounds like a woods thang good luck this season

 

Every bird that Jill or I has killed has been on the field edge or middle of the field.

 

I've killed one bird on the edge of a field, but the rest of my turkeys have all come from the woods. I usually try and set up within 100 yards of where the birds are roosted. The turkeys in our area roost in the same spot a majority of the time, and I already know the general direction in which they're going to go. I usually just meet them in the middle of where they fly down from the roost to where they head to go out into the fields.

 

I've actually never killed one in a field.

But I've close to twenty in the swamp/woods/lumber roads and a handful in small food plots.

SB
none w/ a bow

 

While professionally guiding, guiding friends or just myself, I've killed a pile more turkeys on the edge of fields or just inside the woods on the edge of fields than deeper in the woods.

 

Field edges here, tryin to get on them in the woods I hunt is hard, there is alot of underbrush that makes it pretty hard to spot them and get a shot off.

 

Hey, do mesquite fields count as woods or fields?

If they're woods, then it's probably a tie... if they're fields, then there's no contest!

 

I've killed all my birds in fields. But I've seen more and had many close calls in the woods. Just haven't connected in the woods.

I think because I use a decoy most of the time, even in the woods, they are more likely to see the decoy in a field and work to it rather than in the woods where they have a harder time seeing and have to rely a lot of hearing.

 

We'll go with birds I've called in, (killing them is a whole nother story)
None have been along a field edge BUT, 2 were killed & one was missed on a 30-40 yard wide grassy powerline. Does that count as a field?

 

Yeah, ill take grassy power line cutouts and mesquite fields as fields

 

Only two birds I shot were right on field edges. I called both gobblers in last spring across fields to the edge where I was setup. I was CLOSE to moving inward to setup on the gobbler that I eventually shot. I only had a few seconds to make up my mind, and I'm glad I chose the field edge.

 

I think I've killed 8 Turkeys.

Only one has been in the woods. But then again, most have been killed in the morning on roosting areas, they want to go in the fields.

 

Perfect. Food for thought, if I had fingers as big as yours... I'd spend more time in the woods, it'd be easier to conceal them.

 

About 50/50. Growing up in heavily pressured areas I killed piles of them in the woods in areas where others wouldn't go. I'm slowly catching up though and probably about even with the less pressured birds I hunt now. I do find it easier to run/gun and get aggressive on them when in the woods. It's easier though to let the decoys do the work for you in the fields by far.

 

I have killed all my birds in either wheat and alfalfa fields or grass/mesquite pastures.

 

Survey going as i expected it to. seems field's are higher percentage, BUT acording to your situation and the cards your delt.

 

If you had fingers as big as mine, there would be some happy.........Well!!!