Hey teammates has anyone been out listening for gobbles yet? I haven't had a chance yet but I'm really wanting to pin down a few birds before the youth and regular season opener. My brother went out yesterday to some new land and heard 10 gobblers!
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Went out this morning to listen and didn't hear them, but saw 2 long beards, 3 jakes, and 10 hens fly down in the field beside me. Got to watch them strut around for a minute.
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I haven't been able to listen yet. I stay pretty busy before season. My dad listens off his front porch on nice mornings and heard some this week
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I have been out a couple times. Haven't heard one yet. Youth season opened here Friday. It rained all day and rained Saturday. Monday and Tuesday look better. I plan on taking my daughter out. My neighbor heard one last week and said it was right behind my house. Hoping to hear that first gobble in the next few days.
Quote from: birdman67 on March 10, 2024, 07:43:35 AM
I have been out a couple times. Haven't heard one yet. Youth season opened here Friday. It rained all day and rained Saturday. Monday and Tuesday look better. I plan on taking my daughter out. My neighbor heard one last week and said it was right behind my house. Hoping to hear that first gobble in the next few days.
We only get one morning until 1:00 for our youth hunt. I wish we had a little more time. I'd love to get my son on a bird.
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Dang they make it hard on the kids. One morning is not really a youth season at all. We get a week for youth here in MS for turkey and 2 weeks for deer.
The gobbles have begun in MS. Things are warming up!
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Quote from: aclawrence on March 10, 2024, 11:31:33 PM
Quote from: birdman67 on March 10, 2024, 07:43:35 AM
I have been out a couple times. Haven't heard one yet. Youth season opened here Friday. It rained all day and rained Saturday. Monday and Tuesday look better. I plan on taking my daughter out. My neighbor heard one last week and said it was right behind my house. Hoping to hear that first gobble in the next few days.
We only get one morning until 1:00 for our youth hunt. I wish we had a little more time. I'd love to get my son on a bird.
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We're only gonna have 1 morning this youth season also. I'll be gone on a school trip for opener, so were gonna try to get 2 killed the last day. One good thing though, a couple of my brothers students participated in a predator hunt and used our turkey spot. Took 15 yotes off the place. landowner said they were starting to gobble. But then again we heard em on Dec.9th gobbling while we deer hunted, lol.
I'm planning to go out and scout some new properties this weekend. Season looks really good since we had very little snow in MN.
Working a shutdown . Haven't been able to listen but I know where some will be. As too how long they will be there being I only get 1 poke at them a week... I don't know. But I have high hopes for the opener which is an off day for me. Unfortunately rain opening weekend. Current forecast doesn't show it starting until lunch in my area on the opener , which I would have to call it quits at lunch anyway because I work nightshift
youd think they were on fire here at home with the banner harvest rate for the first 2 days of our opener. I didnt see or hear anything to suggest that...but my gosh it was murder in these parts
Quote from: dzsmith on March 17, 2024, 12:11:32 AM
youd think they were on fire here at home with the banner harvest rate for the first 2 days of our opener. I didnt see or hear anything to suggest that...but my gosh it was murder in these parts
Well maybe it saved a few birds for a while. I'm hoping to find a gobbler to chase that you can't hear from any roads for the opener.
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I went out today and walked a new property I have gained access to today. I learned it would be fine for deer and trapping but that's about it. As I was heading home I spotted a good flock that I will have to check out later.
I went on a ski trip with the wife and some friends this weekend and then working all week before heading to Florida to start hunting. I haven't gotten to listen but my brother listened at the private farm we hunt yesterday and said at least 4 were gobbling pretty good on the limb
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Quote from: Kygobblergetter on March 18, 2024, 09:27:10 AM
I went on a ski trip with the wife and some friends this weekend and then working all week before heading to Florida to start hunting. I haven't gotten to listen but my brother listened at the private farm we hunt yesterday and said at least 4 were gobbling pretty good on the limb
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That's good news
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Went out to a spot that got burned a few weeks ago. First time there didn't hear a bird. Today heard 9. They were raking it on the limb but sure shut up shortly after. Next Sunday is our youth hunt and we've been told they're gobbling all morning over there.
Listened on some public not too far from home today. Heard several birds but we're all roosted on private. The public is tore up with scratching though and birds are still pretty grouped up. Checked a camera I set up in November and had a mid 150s buck and a couple that should be around 150 next year so that was a nice little bonus. I'll be trying to scout whenever I'm off work from now until season
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That's awesome Brent.
Quote from: turkey harvester on March 29, 2024, 08:12:31 PM
Went out to a spot that got burned a few weeks ago. First time there didn't hear a bird. Today heard 9. They were raking it on the limb but sure shut up shortly after. Next Sunday is our youth hunt and we've been told they're gobbling all morning over there.
That's good news!
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Ive been out a few mornings here in WV and have heard a few. I got permission to hunt a farm in PA. This morning i seen at least 80 birds at once with 18 strutters!! It was unreal!
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Oh man wv. That is awesome! Looks like a good season coming!
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Dang!!! Thats a wad of em.
I'm out for my first listen this morning. I found one bird right beside the road. Inside my mountain bike over to where I thought he was and I could hear him walking in the leaves. He gave me a nice gobble right about 50 yards away. It's been all quiet since then. The gate was closed so I'm probably 3miles plus on my mountain bike and my legs are toast.
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Stopped by the farm we hunt this evening after work just to see if there was anything in the field and had a really cool encounter. There was a hen feeding near the gate and a longbeard just laying in the grass beside her. She got nervous about me pulling in and left. He didn't care a bit. May have been asleep honestly. After a few minutes he got up and began strutting around. He'd strut a few minutes then lay down for a few. This went on for half an hour or so before another longbeard came out and he went to run that bird off. I'd never seen that before
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I was mushroom hunting Friday on our IL farm and had 2 going nuts at 9 am. On another farm we hunt in IL they've been gobbling hard for a few weeks.
Guess it depends on where you are.