What's the smallest property you have hunted on and/or harvested on?
My coworker has 11 acres of all woods that has elevation and a plateau at the top, that he hears turkeys on so I'm going to check it out before season. Not sure it will be worth trying or not?
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I'd defiantley give it morning or two if I were you, and he says he here's birds. I've killed a bird on a 11 acre piece. 4 acres being pasture. The other 7 being hardwoods that went into a bottom and more hardwoods going back up onto the other side. Got extremely lucky and harvested a bird the first time I hunted that place. And heard 3 birds that morning. Granted only one sounded like it was on that 11 acres and that's not the one I killed.
4 acres.
You only need 40 yards...
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4 acres for me
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Killed one off 2.8 acres once. Was headed home from work one afternoon and seen them cross the road to behind an old lady's house I knew. Stopped and asked. She said " I just own this yard right here. " I said that will be enough. Called them back to the yard the next morning.
10 acres
2 acres . Right place right time . All legal. Only once
That's a hard question. Seriously.
When I was young nothing was posted and we roamed free range.
Then a hunting club leased up ground and posters went up.
I was a member of the club so...
Honestly, that I can remember, one or the smallest properties I hunt is 270 acres. I hunt it currently and it is by far one of the best pieces of property I have ever hunted.
Looking forward to the first day there again this year, second day too.
I will say, I could carve out one acre of that 270 acres and fill my tags in a season.
State land strip about 100 yards wide.
I own and live on 5 acres of oak and hickory timber and I've shot probably a dozen off it over the last 25 years.
I own 6 acres and have killed on it.
6 acres....
45 acres
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A one acre lot and it was a honey hole. A perfect travel route between the roost and feed area.
I'd say it's not so much about how big but more about what's around the land and what trees, food sources and nesting habitat the land provides? I hunt very small parcel of lands... Most times I hunt just a field corner without even going into the woods after them. If your 11 acres is adjacent to a field where gobblers strut, bingo. But if it's a wooden lot amoung other wooden lot, I would maybe feel less confident about it.
11 acre lot of my buddy's. Surrounded by town forest. My wife, daughter and I tripled on it. Best day of my life. Z
It really depends on the lay of the land and what is around the property. Even within big parcels there are often small spots where turkeys want to roost or travel. For example, I have a 230 acre farm I have hunted for over 20 years but I've taken probably 50% of my birds out of one specific small 10 acre field.
At my house I have 13 acres with a fairly wide wooded windbreak separating my property from a 175 acre corn field. My kids put up a blind and hunt in that windbreak where the turkeys frequently travel along.
Quote from: Timmer on March 27, 2025, 12:47:13 PMIt really depends on the lay of the land and what is around the property. Even within big parcels there are often small spots where turkeys want to roost or travel. For example, I have a 230 acre farm I have hunted for over 20 years but I've taken probably 50% of my birds out of one specific small 10 acre field.
At my house I have 13 acres with a fairly wide wooded windbreak separating my property from a 175 acre corn field. My kids put up a blind and hunt in that windbreak where the turkeys frequently travel along.
You said it. I hunt on a 3,800 acre farm down here. Most of the turkeys we've killed over the years have been in 2 areas separated by a couple miles (its long and skinny). on of those areas is 6-7 acres and the other around 20. Its just where they want to be in the springtime.