Who's planning to hunt Mississippi in two weeks? Looks like spring may be a month behind this year.
I may be heading that way. My BIL goes every year and his group typically do really good.
We'll be there every weekend until our season opens. Will probably be slow the first couple weekends this year though. Chuck
I normally go at this time also but never seen weather like this so close to their opener. Hard to imagine much gobbling activity like this.
I can't see it either. We're gonna skip youth weekend this year for sure.
We drew three WMA hunts and will pass on them this year. We have killed gobblers on them the 8 years we have hunted them. But some years the trees were leaved out and the dogwoods in full bloom when their season started.
I think it will be April before it gets right. This global warming has really turned things upset down.
We now plan to start hunting on March 31st. Hopefully there will be some green by then.
I'll be in SW Mississippi opening day..I am also worried about this cold weather so close to opener but hey, can't kill em at the house!
Terrible hatches and cold weather will make for another horrible season here. Y'all stay at home and save your money!
I'll be there for youth (hopefully) and for sure the rest of the season. I have a good bit of private ground and have killed them "deer hunting" when there is no gobbling. Will probably end up guarding dekes in a plot or on a road if nothing's talking. Not the way I wanted to start the season, but I'll be happy as long as it's not thunderstorms or all day downpours.
Last year I didn't hear a bird opening weekend and still ended up with a great season.
It is snowing here in Arkansas this morning and temps in the low 20s.
We went to Mississippi in the spring of 2013 for their opener and it was cold and a late spring that year. We killed two gobblers in four days hunting but they came in without a gobble. Fun but just not the way I like to hunt them. Since we are only buying a 7-day non-resident hunting license we will wait. Good luck to those hitting their opener.
I agree when you have only a select few days to hunt and not an entire season, it is best to watch the weather. Having hunted MS and AL quite a few times early season, the quality of your hunt can depend on timing of spring (early or late). With the later timing our season is AR, it gives more flexibility to hunt somewhere earlier before our season comes in. Good luck.
Good luck to you guys. Hope the weather warms up for ya
I will be there. I wait all year for the season and if the weather isn't perfect then so be it. I am not one who can pick and choose the perfect days. I hunt as often as I can with a full time job. The older I get the more I realize my days of chasing these birds are dwindling. I will hunt them until I am no longer here . Each spring day that passes is one less that I will have in my life.
If I were a Mississippi resident I would be out there everyday regardless of the weather until I filled my three tags. But being from out-of-state we have to try and choose what will give us the best opportunity in our short time to get on gobblers. I can say we have hunted Mississippi 8 times and killed two gobblers each trip on public land with other chances that we just blew.
Will miss the opener due to family functions, but will travel on Monday the 16th and start hunting on Tuesday. May be too cold.... may be too early... but I have the first 2 weeks left on my license from last season and have commitments to hunt Louisiana and Oklahoma starting on March 28. I think the key will be travel patterns and being where they are heading.... they may or may not gobble. And, the afternoons may be better than the mornings. But... who the heck knows for sure??? Not me...I'm just a simple turkey hunter... :-)
I will be there!! Last years opener was terrible, cold, and rainy and I still managed two, and heard another. Now when spoke to the GW at the check station, they said I was the only one to do good. The ppl at the hotel all said the same but it goes to show that you never KNOW till you GO.
needs to have the season moved back 3 weeks
I'm not scared to build a fire to keep warm on a long sit!
I know, you had a forest fire going the last time we were there. Good thing they cannot smell!!!! And it was not even freezing that morning.
I'm in a lease near Philadelphia. I haven't been able to make the drive to scout (it's 5 hours), but dang it's gonna be tough. The weather ain't cooperating at all. Maybe the crowd will get frustrated and quit at the lease before the hunting gets good in April.
Think the last turkey in MS was killed last year. None left here.... ;D
I will be hunting some private land in N Ms for the 1st time this year.
Its a pasture land and I've seen birds there before. Went walking today and found a feather but no poo or tracks.
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Thankfully, the MDWFP moved the season back on a couple WMA's close to me here in MS. Not even opening until April (even youth season). Been long over due in my opinion.
Watch what you wish for on a later season...people in AR started talking that junk and now our season is over before it starts. Be thankful y'all's runs through the 'prime time'.
ima be out there even if its frozen looks like it maybe :drool: :funnyturkey:
I live in north Mississippi but had to be down near Jackson on Tuesday. I saw four different birds strutting on the way down. My guess is with a warmer week ahead we're going to be in good shape come the 14th. Been a few birds gobbling sporadically here and there and I fully expect to hear a few come next weekend.
I am in N Central Mississippi and it is 28 degrees and a half an inch of ice on the ground today. If you guys are having to come from very far away you might want to wait till later. We have not had any days of warm weather so far and it is going to kick off late this year. I know yall like to come here to do some early hunting, but I think you will be disappointed this year on the opener.
Quote from: deadbuck on March 05, 2015, 08:31:28 PM
I am in N Central Mississippi and it is 28 degrees and a half an inch of ice on the ground today. If you guys are having to come from very far away you might want to wait till later. We have not had any days of warm weather so far and it is going to kick off late this year. I know yall like to come here to do some early hunting, but I think you will be disappointed this year on the opener.
Amen to the winter weather screwing everything up
it's more like duck season than turkey season
I had my vacation to be able to hunt the first week and half the second week but have decided to push that back a week and a half bc of the weather. I'm still going to hunt that first week on my 4 days off but it will be more of a scout/hunt to try and find some birds for my vacation. I think this next week and the opening week temps in the 60's and 70's will give me a better shot at em.
You Mississippi boys sure sound like some of the old timers I grew up around. Not a single one of em would ever admit to hearing a turkey gobble anywhere until after they had killed it. :angel9:
Quote from: Hooksfan on March 06, 2015, 01:49:25 PM
You Mississippi boys sure sound like some of the old timers I grew up around. Not a single one of em would ever admit to hearing a turkey gobble anywhere until after they had killed it. :angel9:
It's cutthroat enough between locals as it is. You can't expect us to be loose-lipped on the world wide web when most of us don't even discuss turkeys with our close friends. ;)
We talk among each other a lot about private land birds, but public land birds are off limits. Seriously, the only way I would come to Mississippi to hunt from out of state would be if I was retired and had 2-3 weeks to spend doing it. Our birds are just too educated and the terrain too thick to think you can come here and kill birds like is done in Kansas and Nebraska. Very few of us would limit at 3 birds each year if we didn't have a ridiculously long 6 week season.
Quote from: JBIRD22 on March 06, 2015, 01:56:22 PM
Quote from: Hooksfan on March 06, 2015, 01:49:25 PM
You Mississippi boys sure sound like some of the old timers I grew up around. Not a single one of em would ever admit to hearing a turkey gobble anywhere until after they had killed it. :angel9:
It's cutthroat enough between locals as it is. You can't expect us to be loose-lipped on the world wide web when most of us don't even discuss turkeys with our close friends. ;)
It ain't a criticism, just an observation, and yes I would be the same way. :wave:
Quote from: deadbuck on March 06, 2015, 01:57:48 PM
We talk among each other a lot about private land birds, but public land birds are off limits. Seriously, the only way I would come to Mississippi to hunt from out of state would be if I was retired and had 2-3 weeks to spend doing it. Our birds are just too educated and the terrain too thick to think you can come here and kill birds like is done in Kansas and Nebraska. Very few of us would limit at 3 birds each year if we didn't have a ridiculously long 6 week season.
I agree totally with your assessment. I have family in Mississippi and have hunted along the Big Black River East of Vicksburg. My mothers family place is northwest of Clinton in the Brownsville community. Those birds are not easy for sure.
We have hunted public land in Mississippi 8 times and killed two gobblers each trip. We normally hunt 5 days. We have also had a few other gobblers we should have killed. But I agree, they are as tough as any bird I have hunted. I love to hear them gobble in the big hardwoods in those swamps.