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Author Topic: Toughest state  (Read 61782 times)

Offline mightyjoeyoung

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #75 on: January 18, 2018, 07:07:04 PM »
Ive only hunted two states but in NY I slaughter turkeys compared to PA

In my part of PA its a good day if I can find a bird and get it to gobble a really good day.

That's because you live in the wrong part of PA, though if you hunt state game lands about anywhere in our state, you're not only dealing with the birds but every idiot tromping around the woods.  That part ofthe challenge is part of themfun for me though. Almost every public land bird I've taken has been within earshot of another hunter.  I've had almost a s many hunts ruined by those knuckleheads too.  You're right though.  PA isma tough, TOUGH state tomtake a muture bird.  If you can kill a big, mature Tom in PA, you can kill one anywhere. 
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #76 on: January 24, 2018, 01:00:30 AM »
Sounds crazy but Oklahoma... South East Oklahoma in the Ouchiata mountains.
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #77 on: February 05, 2018, 06:24:55 PM »
Sounds crazy but Oklahoma... South East Oklahoma in the Ouchiata mountains.

Yep,...a perfect example of a public land hunting area with few turkeys that don't like to gobble.  Good place for a guy to test his turkey hunting skills.

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #78 on: February 06, 2018, 11:09:59 AM »
  If you can kill a big, mature Tom in PA, you can kill one anywhere.

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #79 on: February 08, 2018, 10:21:36 PM »
I'm gonna have to say Mississippi.

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #80 on: February 10, 2018, 11:40:10 PM »
Any small tracks with high pressure, this encompasses alot of WMAs in South eastern states

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #81 on: February 11, 2018, 12:59:54 AM »
Hunt many states every year. Usually the Midwest and south. The toughest are hands down #1 Arkansas(high pressure and very few birds) and #2 Mississippi (more birds but tons of pressure). Most other states seem fairly “easy” compared to these two in my opinion. By easy I simply mean that there are more birds with seemingly less pressure, and thus, a higher likelihood of success. As it’s been stated already, every state has tough public land. The states like Arkansas that currently have low bird populations are the toughest.

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #82 on: February 11, 2018, 09:25:15 AM »
Right now I'd have to say South Dakota and my home state of North Carolina. Because I hunted my butt off last season in both states and didn't kill a bird. Like has been said, public land and pressured toms make it tough in any state.
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #83 on: February 13, 2018, 06:53:12 AM »
Don't take this the wrong way...I haven't hunted as many states as some folks on here, but I have had the opportunity to hunt several. The truth in my opinion. There are very very hard to hunt birds in every state. Every last one. Ive hunted birds impossible to screw with in just about all of them at some point. Ive seen birds in Kansas that took flight at the site of a decoy at 300 yards away. Like many have mentioned they were pressured birds and I was hunting them at the end of season where they had already been hunted to death. I used to think the general consensus of being from the southeast that we had the hardest birds to hunt and in a sense there is some truth to that. But every time I go out of state to the Midwest or anywhere....I always seem to roll up on birds tougher than my homestate of Mississippi. Like many have mentioned, if birds are pressured and have been hunted hard, or if numbers just suck in general....you will have your work cut out for you no matter what part of the country you are in.
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #84 on: February 16, 2018, 01:56:11 PM »
Louisiana is pretty tough on public land compared to some other states I've hunted. The low population density is the main reason. We have turkeys in small pockets instead of total coverage like some states.
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #85 on: February 16, 2018, 08:49:58 PM »
I have only hunted DE (home state), PA & MO. And they kicking my rear in PA. 5 yrs and no bird.
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #86 on: February 22, 2018, 11:58:56 PM »
Unless you have somebody to let you hunt their property NY is a nightmare because all the public land is over run and if that is not bad enough all the city boys come up and shoot at everything that moves.
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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #87 on: February 28, 2018, 08:41:19 PM »
Sounds crazy but Oklahoma... South East Oklahoma in the Ouchiata mountains.

Yep an my favorite place to hunt. Would enjoy meeting you some day and talking turkeys since we cover some of the same ground

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #88 on: March 01, 2018, 07:32:53 AM »
Florida has to be the toughest.

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Re: Toughest state
« Reply #89 on: March 01, 2018, 08:09:07 AM »
Florida has to be the toughest.

Florida is the "poster boy" state for the argument many of us have made, which is that it all depends on where you get to hunt.  Florida public land hunts might well be the toughest in the country, but from what I have experienced in my four trips there, private land hunting is pretty much a slam dunk.