What is your favorite terrain to turkey hunt in? Hardwood ridges, pine thickets, big fields, hardwood river bottoms, big mountains, etc.
I like them all, but my favorite is a hardwood river bottom. I love wading the water, crossing sloughs, dealing with the mud and the cottonmouths, etc. Just something different about it.
Is all good , but hardwood ridges way back in the timber is my favorite.
Hardwood ridges.
I love it all! If I had to pick if pick hardwood ridges
Ill take a good 'ol mesquite flat anyday. Watch the old gobbler strut and gobble all the way in.
Gman
Palmettos and fields
I guess I'm on the hardwood ridge band wagon. I like to walk ridges and call in the late morning. I also hunt back fields and pipelines that are surrounded by timber. They are turkey hot spots around here.
Central and South Florida Oak Hammocks, Cypress Heads and pasture land
I've grown up hunting the river bottoms and its where I killed my first bird. Absolutely no other place I would rather hunt because those bottoms are special. With that being said, I do love hardwood ridges. Give those birds 45 degrees on a clear morning and that mountain music is beautiful
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All of them but my absolute favorite is a Hardwood bottom.
I have always gotten my birds in a field set but this year my last bird was in the woods.He came off a slight ridge heading towards a field but it made the hunt so much more different.Never went after them in the woods but next year WILL be different!!!
Hardwood ridges here.
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I love it all, but at the age of 73, I now pretty much prefer the flat lands of Kansas. Back, hips & knees wore out.
I am a hardwoods guy, but I have killed them in fields and swamps too.
Anywhere those jokers will gobble. Honestly nothing I love more than any new ground I don't know and a hot bird or 5.
Big timber, be it bottoms, flats, or ridges.
All of 'em! :icon_thumright:
Those hills kick my flatlander behind but I love a hardwood ridge. Truth be told, I have never hunted turkeys where I wouldn't go back. :z-twocents:
I do love it all but sadly I love the hills that nobody wants to climb. Just in my blood I guess. Iv tried to quit em but they own me.
River bottoms has to be my favorite .then big open fields .
FLAT
Most anywhere the turkeys are...
That being said
I hope he is on the same side of the creek that I am on
I would rather start out above him than below, nothing worse than getting to the bottom only to hear him gobble back up at the top.....
As I mature, my baton death marches are definitely on the decline. Closer is better.
Denny
Hardwood ridges in "Big Woods"
River Bottoms for me. That's where I do the majority of my hunting and I just love to hear a river bank full of trees come alive at daylight with turkeys gobbling.
My passion lies in the big mountains of north central PA. Hands down my favorite place to chase a gobble!
Quote from: PALongspur on July 06, 2014, 09:49:10 PM
My passion lies in the big mountains of north central PA. Hands down my favorite place to chase a gobble!
I will second that!
Hollows, heavy in beech.
IMO, nothing beats an Eastern gobbling on a crisp cool morning in a hardwood bottom. After you have had your thermacell turned on of course.
I grew up hunting and live in the Alleghany Highlands of Va. so of coarse I'm going to say hardwoods ridges and steep mountains of Virginia. The ridges of Kentucky are awesome as well. West Virginia to.
Hard to give just one answer. I love creek bottoms, river bottoms, swamps, and any old, big growth timber!
I'll go with creek bottoms.
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Simply put, I could never choose just one. I guess that's why I do my best to chase them in each every spring.
The steep hardwood ridges will always hold a special place bc that's where I cut my teeth and for the most part those birds gave me my foundation. But since my first trip to the swamps of the South Florida Everglades there is just something eery and special about that place. The big cottonwood creek bottoms of KS and NE are always awesome too. But there is something surreal about hunting the Rockies and hearing that yodeling Merriam gobble echo through it, almost spooky. There's just so many more . . . no way to choose. :OGturkeyhead:
Steep West Virginia ridges. Big Timber or thickets, I'll take em both.
Hardwoods (both ridges and bottoms) & power line cuts
I kill a lot of gobblers in farming country, but grew up huntin big river swamps which is so special to me! The big swamp is my favorite place to hunt anything!
Well out here in WA. we have Pine mountains, some farm land and some dense rain forest to hunt. I mostly hunt the pine Mountains and probably prefer them over the rain forest because of how much the sound gets absorbed in the thick stuff. A gobbling tom can be within a hundred yards and not be heard. so yelps and clucks are almost impossible to pick up.
I hunt the foothills... Rolling oaks to steep oak canyons... I have a strong preference for the rolling oaks, but last season the canyons were better to me.
After chasing every subspecies of turkey out there in every kind of terrain imaginable it's difficult to actually pick a "favorite".
I would have to choose the big oak flats of the Eastern as there is nothing like hearing that deep loud ratchet gobble in the open hardwoods.
Wait a minute.... Maybe I should have picked the live oak hammocks and swamps of Florida or the Mesquite flats of south Texas, the open prairies or Black Hills of South Dakota, the mountains of rocks in Sonora, the jungle in the Yucatan or as others have put it wherever I am blessed to be during turkey season.
Doesn't really matter, It's all good... :icon_thumright:
Those echoing river bottoms! Logging roads are a close second, but 90+% of my hunting now is limited to crop fields. :(
In South Florida,but not improved pasture 2-300 yards down the fenceline from a feeder.In mature cypress swamp with light filtering through,purple iris in full bloom.That is Florida hunting!Most videos and hunt shows never show this terrain.
I'm with Swampchicken. I grew up hunting in the Mississippi River bottoms and have seen some beautiful sights of big Toms coming through the open woods and swamps.
I also love hunting hilly ground because you can get quite close to the birds. Plus , mosquitoes aren't so bad.
I have access to some great pasture ground , but that is not my kind of hunting. See lots of birds and don't kill near as many as back in the woods.
Turkeys also gobble more in the woods which is a huge plus for excitement.