I know we all check the weather waiting to see that perfect gobbling morning.
What do you think is the perfect temp for where you hunt.
If I had to give it a 10 deg. range I'd say I like 60-70.
Anything above 80 towards the end usually means quiet woods.
I like humid wet mornings
37 to 45 has been killer for me throughout my seasons.
Cooler + earlier = higher hormone levels
The colder, the better....around here...usually.
37-45 degrees
In MS, I love to see mornings anywhere from low 40's - low 50's with little humidity and no fog. They will rattle the woods!
Cold, but what temp is dependent on your area. 45-55 is pretty good in central tx.
Turkey hunting in the heat sux.
Here it seems like the colder and less humid, the more fired up they get. I love 40-45 degrees and no humidity and ckear
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Clear cold mornings are best for me, most intense gobbling I heard all season it was a balmy 24 degrees at daylight, was colder than most my deer hunting days last fall! Had six longbeards come in that morning in two groups of three, only 5 back up the hill!
Cool mornings following warm days. I prefer low 40's.
40 something, clear, and NO WIND.
40 to 50. No wind and lots of stars. Absolutely my favorite turkey hunting mornings. Just know they gonna hammer. Dont always happen , but sure motivates me. More times than not you gonna hear em tearing it up.
Interesting..since I'm on Tapatalk I can't see where everyone is from but those temps are very very cool. Much cooler than I had guessed you guys would say.
65 , no wind and clear :turkey2: :turkey2:
I love mornings like we had this morning. It was calm, clear, and about 45 degrees. We had a couple that were answering just about everything on the roost. I love those cool clear mornings for gobbling.
Temps = 15 to 50, the key is to having a rising barometric pressure. I kept detailed charts on all this stuff way back before computer spread sheets, adobe, MS office pro, wtc.... ;D and these are the results I came up with. In the end though I found it didnt matter, I was going hunting anyway, and even on "bad" mornings sometimes would would screw up and gobble!
Low to mid 50's seems to fire 'em around here.
Give me a frosty morning after its been hot for a bit. Don't have to shoot em. They usually break there necks gobbling so much
Quote from: turkey_slayer on May 12, 2014, 02:27:45 PM
Give me a frosty morning after its been hot for a bit. Don't have to shoot em. They usually break there necks gobbling so much
so this is whats happening to some of the birds i tried calling this year i wondered why they shut up all of a sudden lol
Quote from: Spring_Woods on May 10, 2014, 09:58:08 PM
Interesting..since I'm on Tapatalk I can't see where everyone is from but those temps are very very cool. Much cooler than I had guessed you guys would say.
I think some guys are thinking over night lows for first thing in the morning while other guys are saying daytime highs. My pefect morning is a Crisp 39 over night and a blue bird day with a high of 68 and just enough breeze to keep bugs from being bad. Birds are birds though I've had gorgeous mornings that are stone quiet and Rainy Foggy mornings that the birds burnt the place down with gobbles.
Interesting thread. I never really paid much attention, but I will from now on.
This year for the first couple weeks of the season, we had wet weather. The days I hunted there was no rain, but still a lot of moisture on the ground. At this time, the birds became more active later in the morning.
Then we had a really warm spell (up to 90°), and things were more quiet. (Although, the two birds I did kill were durning this time in the early afternoon, and the only birds I heard gobbling).
Later in the season, things cooled off again, and the activity increased. We had a small storm and cooling weather, and right after this, the activity level really picked up.
Marc, I see what you're saying but as the season progresses (at least around here) the hens go to nest much sooner in the morning or won't even go to gobblers at all and just nest full time. That could also be a factor besides just temperatures alone.
And yes, I do mean morning/first light temps. ;)
Edit add; because of the funny swings we've been having the birds are a lot quieter on the very warm days 80 + deg. You generally have until about 9 or 10 am to get one hammering and that's about it. After that you might as well hit the pool. :)
I mainly hunt in the SE, in Dixie. I would say temps between 40-60 degrees are the best for gobbling, with low humidity. Higher humidity and temps seems to shut down the gobbling. :gobble:
50-60 degrees is about where you want to be here in my part of Ohio. I used to love clear, crisp mornings for gobbling, but this year that hasn't been the case. The three hardest gobbling mornings I've experienced this spring were when we had huge rain/thunderstorms the previous night. Yesterday, for example, the storm passed through at 6:30am and they were gobbling like crazy by 6:45am. Go figure. ???
I have come to the conclusion that turkeys do what they want - I can't seem to put a scientific method or analysis behind it. ;)
Quote from: Spring_Woods on May 12, 2014, 08:25:27 PM
Marc, I see what you're saying but as the season progresses (at least around here) the hens go to nest much sooner in the morning or won't even go to gobblers at all and just nest full time. That could also be a factor besides just temperatures alone.
And yes, I do mean morning/first light temps. ;)
Edit add; because of the funny swings we've been having the birds are a lot quieter on the very warm days 80 + deg. You generally have until about 9 or 10 am to get one hammering and that's about it. After that you might as well hit the pool. :)
Interestingly, I think the birds were done breeding early in our season.
My impression is that if the hens are still roosting, they are not sitting on the nest, and if they are not roosting, they are sitting on the nest, but might meet up with the toms for a bit in the morning... This is when it seems to me that the toms are a little more susceptable to being killed.
That being said, early in our season there was a pair of toms with a group of hens, and then a single tom with a group of hens early on... Later in the season, these toms were all by themselves right off the bat (and I still could not get them to come in to me)...
Last weekend of the season, right after a storm, there was a single hen crusing with all three toms, and a lot more gobbling than the previous high temp weeks.
I wonder if that hen did not lose her nest and was trying to re-breed, firing up those toms again?
If I ever figure it out, it will no longer be fun though...