Here in Ohio for the first time the State wide turkey season will give us the second half the season too hunt all day. Just wondering how many of you get to hunt all day? And what do you think of evening hunt.
which Do you like better Morning hunts or evening hunts and why ?
We can only hunt up until noon here in NY. It makes it hard when you can only hunt weekends mostly. My dad and I take around 5 days off early in the season depending on what day the opener falls on, though.
I gotten into the habit of hunting till late morning, going back to the camp for breakfast...then out again till lunch. Then a nap and mess around till I hear one gobble and go after him. If not....I got back out again from 3 till dark.
I enjoy hunting mid day and evenings. If you can get between them and the roosting area its game on.
My experience in the afternoon is if he responds to your calls then hold on cuz he's coming. :anim_25:
Quote from: joshua on March 18, 2011, 10:45:39 PM
My experience in the afternoon is if he responds to your calls then hold on cuz he's coming. :anim_25:
:agreed:
I love hunting mornings but I have killed a lot of birds in the mid-day and evenings setting up on green fields, blind calling
in 2007 I killed both my birds around 5:00pm. I would set up in pastures and just lightly call and like was stated earlier, if he gobbles take the safety off. I also kill 2 in KS last yr in the same evening. The first one at 5:15 and the other about 7pm. Evening can be very productive. The only downside here in alabama is the heat and mosquitos.
I love to hunt in the afternoon...
The action may not be as hot and heavy (at least as far as gobbling goes) as in the early morning hours but it can be very very productive for bagging a bird.
3 of my 4 birds last year were late afternoon birds from between 5 and 6:30 or 7. So I guess I like it pretty good.
If I don't kill the one I have roosted in the morning I'm planning on hunting all day..............Packing a lunch. :fud: :newmascot:
I have shot most of my birds from 10 am -2 pm but have shot alot of birds in the evening here in Kansas. Like other people have said if you can get one to respond in the afternoon/evening then you better hang on cause more time than not you will have a bird in your lap.
Unless you hunt private land you only get to 1:00pm here in Florida. :( :'(
Here in Ga. we can hunt all day, I myself love to afternoon hunt and late season it seems to be a better time for the old bird to totally commit. Thats just the way it seems to work for me.
Louisiana is an all day hunt. I like afternoon hunts cause they are out cruising for lonely chicks. Not much gobbling but can be productive anyhow.
This year here in Pa. they are letting us hunt the last 2 weeks all day too.
At least I will get a little more time to hunt after work.
NC is also all day. I usually hunt until 1000, go get breakfast, then get back out for a mid day hunt (that's a walking/stalking hunt) then about 3:30pm pick an area to get between the fields and the roost for the evening hunt.
Here in Tennessee we can hunt all day but I'd much rather hunt in the morning. I may hunt for a while after lunch but the late evenings are for roosting birds. The only bird I can remember killing in the late afternoon was a bearded hen and that was just because I'd never killed one before and was curious. I'd much rather spend the late day roosting a bird for the next morning. On several occasions I've set up near a roost to roost a bird for the next morning and had birds walk by in range on the way to the roost. I'll let them go ahead and fly up then come back to hunt them in the morning. Sounds a little crazy but I'd just much rather hunt them in the mornings. It's not just the killing. It's the early morning excitement. The cardinals starting the day off. Then the owl hooting to make sure the bird is still there. It's the tree calls and cackles and the fly down. It's the strutting and spittin and drumming. It's calling to the turkey and fooling him into walking in close enough to kill him. Close, not 50 or 60 yards. When that happens you've earned the right to take that birds life. When you kill one at the roost, or kill one at 50-60 yards, all you've done is shoot a turkey.
Quote from: redarrow on March 18, 2011, 10:36:43 PM
I enjoy hunting mid day and evenings. If you can get between them and the roosting area its game on.
You just like mid day and evenings because you dont like waking to an alarm
In California, we can hunt til 4:00. My hunting time is very limited in the spring so when I hike into the turkey woods, I don't leave til i get a bird or 4:00 comes. :TooFunny:
If u can get a bird to gobble midday or afternoon then chances are u got that bird riding in your truck.But i love my morning hunts.
Never had any luck hunting easterns in the afternoon or evening but I've killed most of my Rios in the afternoon.
What I think it gives the working man more a chance to hunt. Here in Ohio are season starts on Monday for some strange reason . So I'm going to get more time to be in the field.
I love hunting ll day. If you get a bird to gobble in the afternoon he will come too you most of the time. I have had great success in the afternoon. Give it a try. Sometimes after work I head to the woods for a little turkey hunting.
I've had quite a few great hunts in the afternoon/evening. A lot of guys give up around mid-morning, plus, I've had several hunts where I hunted a bird early in the morning and couldn't do anything with him (usually because he was with hens) and when I returned to that area in the afternoon, the hens were gone and the gobbler came right to me.
I enjoy afternoon hunts,especially after a slow morning
We've been allowed to hunt all day for several years now in MN. I get up around 4am to get out good and early so making it all the way until sundown is tough for me. I do, however, hunt until 4 or 5. I have taken several birds early to mid afternoon.
Hunt all day in Alabama on private land, management areas and some other places is morning only.
I love going after the gobbling birds in the am, but have taken plenty of birds in the afternoons, and evenings.
God Bless,
David B.
West Virginia only let's hunters hunt half a day in the spring. Fall turkey hunting we get to hunt all day. I wish they would allow us to hunt all day so I can see what its like in the spring to hunt evenings. I've had a lot of gobblers gobbling around noon. Sucks!
The only time I haven't killed birds is from 2-3pm. That is when I come out to eat, if I am after them hard. Over the last 20 years that has proven to me to be the "quiet" time. But hey, I'm sure you can take am from 2-3pm, they are still out there!
I have taken prob 8-10 in the last hour of daylight by setting up close to their roost site of birds that I worked that am - wouldn't work worth a dang in the am, but responded and about 1/2 even gobbled just before lights out.
Good luck man!
Wess
All day here in Iowa....love the afternoon hunts. Especially when I'm in a new area....figuring it out...stalkin birds...learning their roosts...I LOVE THE GAME!!! :z-guntootsmiley: :z-guntootsmiley: