In y'alls experience, what weather conditions/changes tend to produce the best gobbling days for easterns? Has anyone compared what the barometric pressure is doing on those 100+ gobble mornings?
Clear and sunny with rain the day before and good weather planned for the next day. Oh, and no wind helps a bunch.
Cool, crisp and calm with low humidity. They will gobble good!! :gobble: :gobble: :gobble:
Quote from: Deputy 14 on February 05, 2014, 11:09:24 PM
Clear and sunny with rain the day before and good weather planned for the next day. Oh, and no wind helps a bunch.
Quote from: RutnNStrutn on February 05, 2014, 11:32:48 PM
Cool, crisp and calm with low humidity. They will gobble good!! :gobble: :gobble: :gobble:
if you can get this on the same day in my experience they gobble like absolute crazy. but if one or the other happens they gobble really good to.
Absolute best? I would say first or second week of May after having temps around 80. Cold front blows thru and the first calm frosty day afterwards. It's like they lose their mind. Never fails, every year we have a day like that around the 10th
In my neck of the woods, I will take a frosty morning with no wind. 20-25 degrees is not to cold for my birds. If it rains/storms at night but clear the next morning they go crazy as well. :turkey2:
Any day they're horny
Quote from: CASH on February 06, 2014, 03:28:52 AM
Any day they're horny
:TooFunny: :TooFunny:
I agree with all the above for the best condition but I have also been hunting at daylight when a rain had just stoped and have had birds go nuts (maybe they are angry from sitting on the roost and being soaked???). All I know is that its the best sound in the woods......
Quote from: CASH on February 06, 2014, 03:28:52 AM
Any day they're horny
That's the best time. I hope they are everyday this year.
Thanks for the replies fellas!
Just about everything mentioned and especially when they are on the adjoining property or across the creek from you.
What is crazy is that some mornings are what I call banner mornings so you talk your wife,kid. or someone that you would love to experience a morning like this one and then go the next day and you could have taken them to a cemetery and heard the same thing.
heard 4 going off the other morning back and forth. It was a beautiful 20 degree outside. I think they were doing it to try to keep warm.
Most important is no wind then mid to high 30's clear sky early season prior to all the hunters spooking them is just perfect
Cool to cold crisp mornings when it has been hot. Rising barometer gets them active just like all game. Storm brewing which is usually the rising barometer. Mix in distant thunder and you will figure out how many gobblers are in your neck of the woods.
The most prolific gobbling that I can remember was just ahead of a line of violent thunderstorms one afternoon. The birds were shock gobbling at the claps of thunder. It got two birds so cranked up that they were gobbling non-stop for 10 straight minutes. Unfortunately I got the heck out of Dodge once I had lightning cracking right above me. Birds were still steady gobbling as I took off on my mountain bike back to the truck.
About 2-3 weeks before our season opens. lol The best gobbling I have ever heard in WV or VA, that's were I hunt 90% of the time, is on a clear frosty morning when the sun starts peaking over the mt. and it is going to be a clear sunny day. 2nd right before a thunder storm and they are gobbling at thunder.
:OGturkeyhead: :OGturkeyhead:
For me, it's usually any day that ends in a Y.
;D
Every day I am in the woods turkey hunting. At least thats my best days for gobbling.
TRKYHTR
In my opinion here in MS it's when it first starts to warm up in spring on clear, sunny days with no wind.
Quote from: Deputy 14 on February 05, 2014, 11:09:24 PM
Clear and sunny with rain the day before and good weather planned for the next day. Oh, and no wind helps a bunch.
:agreed:
Let a cold front come through and dump a bunch of rain, and then the temp warm up with sunshine the next day and it is on.
Not always, but most Spring mornings when you walk outside and you look up and see millions of stars and the wind is calm, it's usually game time. My favorite mornings are filled with thunder though, as they gobble like crazy at it, even in a down pour.
I prefer cool clear mornings with no wind, but that isn't a guarantee. I've had windy days with rain that they gobbled like mad and cool clear mornings afterwards that they never said a peep. They have a mind of their own that doesn't always align with what I think should be happening. I just try to be there as many days as I can so I don't miss them when they are gobbling.