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Title: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on March 07, 2022, 09:02:44 AM
Let us know what you seeing and hearing.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on March 07, 2022, 09:04:03 AM
Went Saturday morning with Huck and we heard 2. Cloudy and windy, but at least we heard the first gobble of the year. Mainly roost gobbling.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: birdman67 on March 07, 2022, 09:50:37 PM
Went and listened this past Saturday and didn’t hear a peep. A cold front is moving in this weekend so it may be a little while before the first gobble. It will be the youth weekend and I still plan on taking my little girl. Hoping to get her first bird.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: dzsmith on March 07, 2022, 10:15:33 PM
I’ve listened one time and heard nothing. I got off work and wasn’t able to get to a listening spot until about 730…. Probably too late , but it was a textbook morning .
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Post by: fmf on March 08, 2022, 02:45:17 PM
I went several mornings last week and heard birds every morning.  One a couple that were actually gobbling good, most only gobbled a time or 2.  The weather is kind of crappy now, but it looks like thursday may be a good day for a listen
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Post by: Dmason3 on March 08, 2022, 08:46:23 PM
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Here’s one of my good spots this morning. We got a little bit of rain recently…


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Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: fmf on March 10, 2022, 09:35:52 AM
They were cutting up pretty good this morning.  It sure is getting hard to just go listen without being able to hunt em!
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Post by: turkey harvester on March 11, 2022, 08:49:35 AM
We got snow coming today and temps dropping to single digits tonight with a 20mph north wind. I'd say the birds around here wont be talking much tomorrow, lol. but gonna get in the 70's next week.
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Post by: birdman67 on March 11, 2022, 12:13:00 PM
Snow is coming in tonight here in North MS. It may delay my youth hunt with my daughter until Monday. But boy is she ready to go.
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Post by: dzsmith on March 13, 2022, 09:08:17 PM
Believe it not. A few gobbles this morning . Only a few and only 1 bird , very far away. But it was nice hearing one. 27 deg.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: aclawrence on March 14, 2022, 08:52:54 PM
I’m heading out for my first listen in the morning. My brother has been hearing some birds here in the upper half of the state.


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Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: bornagain64 on March 15, 2022, 04:34:58 PM
Went out a couple weeks and heard 1, my hunting buddy heard 3 different birds in another area. He went out the week after to a different spot and heard a couple more. Season starts Saturday, so I am hoping they will cooperate.
We are hunting public land, so we will probably have to deal with other hunters too.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: aclawrence on March 15, 2022, 05:04:58 PM
Nice looking shotgun. I’m shouting a 20 ga pumper to. We heard 3 gobblers this morning and maybe a fourth. I couldn’t tell for sure. It was a pretty dreary morning so I was pretty happy with that. Last year I didn’t hear anything before the season started so I’m way ahead lol.


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Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: birdman67 on March 20, 2022, 08:55:58 AM
We are on the board guys! I’ll post the pics and a story as soon as I get a chance.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: bornagain64 on March 20, 2022, 09:57:13 AM
Bird down in Fla. We need to figure out how we want to  post pictures.
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Post by: bornagain64 on March 20, 2022, 10:03:50 AM
(https://i.imgur.com/9Z7hUE0.jpg)
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: aclawrence on March 20, 2022, 10:44:45 AM
Nice, Congrats!


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Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: bornagain64 on March 20, 2022, 11:20:00 AM
We are on the board guys! I’ll post the pics and a story as soon as I get a chance.

Nice job, was a great morning to be in the woods.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: birdman67 on March 20, 2022, 05:46:03 PM
Bird down in Fla. We need to figure out how we want to  post pictures.

Way to go! Congratulations!
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: dzsmith on March 20, 2022, 07:21:33 PM
Congrats fellas. I’ve yet to even hear one …..
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on March 21, 2022, 09:12:08 AM
huck and I went yesterday morning to one of our spots. We ended up hearing 8 possibly 9. Gobbled good on the roost and even gobbled good till after 8am. we sat and listened to em for a while, and went to another spot and heard 2 rattle off. Our woods have been recently burned so everything is wide open.  Huck is remodeling a house right now so hasn't been on yet. tryin to get internet where he's at.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on March 28, 2022, 08:52:16 AM
Cold and windy this weekend. Didn't hear anything. Youth season is in 2 weeks. Hope they get to talking better. Gonna take my 2 nephews the last day of youth. I'll be gone on a stinking school trip first morning.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: bornagain64 on March 29, 2022, 07:19:38 PM
Gonna try and get out this weekend on a rump and stomp wma, but they are calling for storms all weekend long,
so we shall see how it looks on Friday.

Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: dzsmith on March 29, 2022, 07:58:21 PM
My one day off tomorrow and it’s a storm …. How nice
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Post by: turkey harvester on March 30, 2022, 08:56:15 AM
Bad storms coming today for us too. 50 plus mph winds today. Probably blow em to the next county lol.
Title: Scouting reports
Post by: aclawrence on March 30, 2022, 02:55:11 PM
Same here. Everyone say a prayer for these north Alabama gobblers that they hang on for dear life until this weekend. I’m taking my 8yr old son on the youth hunt. He hasn’t been in to turkey hunting like deer hunting but we are turning it into a camping trip and he’s getting excited. So I’m getting excited to!


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Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on March 31, 2022, 09:09:22 AM
Thats awesome!! Memories will be made and hopefully some pics of a dead turkey.
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Post by: birdman67 on April 01, 2022, 06:18:22 AM
Good luck to y’all! Hope y’all run into one of those birds that will not shut up.
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Post by: bornagain64 on April 01, 2022, 11:56:39 AM
Good luck. Hope you have a couple 2 year olds come running in.
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Post by: aclawrence on April 02, 2022, 06:48:35 PM
My son and I had a great day today. We didn’t get to connect on any gobblers but we heard several gobblers and got to see some hens up close. We heard a gobbler yesterday afternoon at the truck, then last night around 7:00 while we were eating burgers, then at the truck today while eating lunch, we took off after that one until closing time  with no luck, came back to the truck and he gobbled again lol. We got to hear some other birds also. I was surprised at the amount of traffic riding around for a youth hunt. We went to one last spot and set up some chairs and played a game of battleship. While we were playing an old friend I named King Solomon last year fired off about 3:30 right where we had our last duel last year. I’ll be back this weekend to check on ole king Solomon. (https://uploads.tapatalk-cdn.com/20220402/4a18ca1debada8296b30cf0bcc68993c.jpg)


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Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: bornagain64 on April 03, 2022, 03:20:23 PM
Very nice, never wasted time when you hunt with your kids. I did some of the same things you do to get my kids to go hunting with me.
We always had lots of snacks and sodas, they would sit on my lap and drive on the dirt roads and we always had to have a BB gun and some
Cans to shoot at. Hearing and seeing game always helps, keep at it.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on April 04, 2022, 09:06:57 AM
He'll never forget that trip. Awesome stuff!!!
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Post by: turkey harvester on April 04, 2022, 09:21:05 AM
Nasty weather had them not talking much this weekend. Huck and I managed to spot hop yesterday and finally found one that wanted to gobble. Marked him and left. Went to a spot they always are and no gobbles. Took a walk later that day and found lots of scratching so Id say theyre there, just not talking. Hopefully after this school trip this week I can get my nephew on a bird this weekend for youth season.
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Post by: bornagain64 on April 20, 2022, 11:39:36 AM
https://youtu.be/hCxUCni9wjA


This is to funny. I do not poach, but I have been tempted by some of his reason towards the end of the list.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: dzsmith on May 04, 2022, 12:20:28 PM
I know several of us so far have been blessed to have a decent season, some of our seasons have came and went already. I would like to poll the team on your feelings of your home state and traveled states for this season. You don’t have to mention your state if you don’t feel like it. I guess I’ll start. Yeah… I killed some birds , but I don’t feel like this season was up to par. From a gobbling perspective there was some days they gobbled good but I would rank the gobbling consistency from this season below average. I would rank the states I visited the same way. Some places had sign and no gobbling , whether that be pictures , tracks , etc…. Particularly in my home state. One place I hunt where I know there are gobblers …. They just didn’t talk. Yet I can get pictures of them almost daily. Now I didn’t particularly hunt this property a lot , but I was fascinated to see the hen sign , and gobbler sign….. I ran a camera in an area all year after removing a bird from here just to see what happened for the remainder of the year….. birds came through all the time , but after the first week of April no birds ever strutted in front of the camera ever again while passing by it with or without hens almost daily . I found this bizarre . Could they have simply been “done”‘that quickly. The bird I killed there was a huge bird , and he was strutting. I figured if anything perhaps he kept birds shut up …. And there were other gobbling birds early on….. but once I killed him. They went quiet …. The bird I killed didn’t gobble , but he did gobble in the mornings some …. So it’s odd to me after killing him that birds went quiet and no more strutting. At least the couple of times I went and listened .
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on May 05, 2022, 09:09:15 AM
It's been plum terrible in my neck of the woods. The birds never really got cranked up. I mean I have a wild hen coming into my yard and my tame turkeys are breeding her. We are at a 24 year low in numbers for Missouri and it shows. Even at my private farms I hunt the birds are either not there or not talking. Not seeing hardly any hens or jakes let alone a gobbling turkey. I hunted 3 times in places I've heard birds in the past and never heard a gobble. logged 19 miles in those 3 hunts to silence. Seems to be just as many residents and non resident hunters out even with the low numbers. I've heard they're spotty and some of my buddies have yet to even get on a workable bird so far this season. I've got the weekend to hunt then its over for me. Absolutely the worst Mo turkey season for my neck of the woods and its not just me that think that. 
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Post by: dzsmith on May 05, 2022, 01:18:12 PM
It's been plum terrible in my neck of the woods. The birds never really got cranked up. I mean I have a wild hen coming into my yard and my tame turkeys are breeding her. We are at a 24 year low in numbers for Missouri and it shows. Even at my private farms I hunt the birds are either not there or not talking. Not seeing hardly any hens or jakes let alone a gobbling turkey. I hunted 3 times in places I've heard birds in the past and never heard a gobble. logged 19 miles in those 3 hunts to silence. Seems to be just as many residents and non resident hunters out even with the low numbers. I've heard they're spotty and some of my buddies have yet to even get on a workable bird so far this season. I've got the weekend to hunt then its over for me. Absolutely the worst Mo turkey season for my neck of the woods and its not just me that think that.
yeah south Missouri has gotten tough. The place I hunt there was tough last year, though I killed one after 4 days . This year I killed rather quickly … however that was it…. 2 birds on 1200 acres . They gobbled good , but gee whiz man…. 2 birds on 1200 acres surrounded by other large farms in what seems like above average habitat other than somewhat a lack of timber . Yeah buddy there was a lot of hunters …. The place I hunt is absolutely surrounded by Arkansas hunters … which I’m used to in my home state as well. Last year I killed the only bird I heard or saw that day …. And came back this year not knowing if I would hear or see a bird , and luckily 2 played the game with me …. But had they not been there …. I’d of been out of luck . I will say this . Opening week the woods are still dead , and the second week , the woods are still just as dead . I don’t know if yals final week it greens up or not . But I wonder if In this particular area the season is simply too early ??!
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: turkey harvester on May 06, 2022, 09:24:14 AM
It's greened up quite a bit this last week, but we've had 3-5" of rain too. I don't know about being early, last few years they have been tearing it up before youth season. People are finding all kinds of nests, not in our area particularly. Our forestry burned right before season so nesting materials are slim pickins. I truly think the southern part of the state just dont have the turkey numbers our MDC thinks they have.
Title: Re: Scouting reports
Post by: dzsmith on May 06, 2022, 09:38:50 AM
Yeah I would say that’s probably right. Simply lacking the numbers. The few times I’ve been up there I’ve never seen a bird from the road . Not once. The place I hunt you gotta a long long walk just to get in hearing distance of them .