If you could hunt in the morning for two hours in the rain or in the afternoon for 5 hours in the rain which would you choose?
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I would choose morning. Why? Because they are a little more predictable in the mornings
Just putting it out there to hear everybody's 2 cents. I could be convinced either way but am partial to mornings.
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I would choose mornings too. I usually have an idea where they start their day, but where they spend their afternoons is much harder to track where I hunt. Plus I would have less time to be soaked. :toothy12:
I'd be ready the second the rain let up. They hit the fields to dry off and get fired up.
I chose afternoon. If you know where they roost, you can catch Mr. Lonely going back to sleep it off. I really like afternoons.
The rain is supposed to let up midday when I can't get out. I do know where they roost at, same spot 2 yrs in a row.
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Quote from: johnplesh on April 12, 2015, 05:15:51 PM
If you could hunt in the morning for two hours in the rain or in the afternoon for 5 hours in the rain which would you choose?
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Morning for me
Morning. They're going to head to the fields if it's raining and will probably stay there all day. Unless the rain lets up.
This is interesting some people indicate turkeys head to fields after rain to dry their feathers and some say they go there when it does rain. It makes sense to me either way. I always thought they went to fields in the rain because their hearing is decreased due to noise of the rain and they go where they can see further to keep safe. Opinions?
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Quote from: johnplesh on April 13, 2015, 06:40:51 AM
This is interesting some people indicate turkeys head to fields after rain to dry their feathers and some say they go there when it does rain. It makes sense to me either way. I always thought they went to fields in the rain because their hearing is decreased due to noise of the rain and they go where they can see further to keep safe. Opinions?
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that has always been my thinking as well.
Around here they go somewhere to try and get out of it. I hunted a monsoon a few years ago on Easter. Found the gobbler and his hens huddled under a tree near the edge of a field. He came gobbling straight to me when I started calling. And that was between 11 and noon.
If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning. I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( :o ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show. Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.
Quote from: jblackburn on April 13, 2015, 05:34:10 PM
If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning. I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( :o ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show. Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.
Yes. We must conceal how we actually hunt in order to live up to the expectations of the elite....!
Quote from: jblackburn on April 13, 2015, 05:34:10 PM
If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning. I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( :o ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show. Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.
I would just claim I went to texas and shot it at 250 yards with a 22-250.
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Quote from: jblackburn on April 13, 2015, 05:34:10 PM
If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning. I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( :o ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show. Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.
I would just claim I went to texas and shot it at 250 yards with a 22-250.
.223 is better, but not out of an AR platform, those black guns kill people! You're not a real rifle hunter if you use a 22-250, I thought you knew better.
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Quote from: Gooserbat on April 13, 2015, 06:03:50 PM
Quote from: jblackburn on April 13, 2015, 05:34:10 PM
If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning. I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( :o ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show. Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.
I would just claim I went to texas and shot it at 250 yards with a 22-250.
.223 is better, but not out of an AR platform, those black guns kill people! You're not a real rifle hunter if you use a 22-250, I thought you knew better.
The real deal would use a 22 Hornet and keep their shots inside of 100 yards.
Morning would be vote 1, unless there are a lots of hens per tom, then I would probably vote for afternoon in the rain.
In my experience they head to the open fields when there is rain but little wind. If you add heavy wind to that, they wave a magic wand and disappear.
Wand waived. It was dead out there.
When it rains I definitely see more birds in the fields, especially in the morning. The times that I have hunted in the morning and it was raining the majority of times the birds seem to stay on the roost longer and then hit either nearby fields or open hardwoods. I have heard that the birds feel safer in these open areas. Not sure if this is true, but I have been told birds will also be more likely to hit open fields to feed because a steady rain will saturate the soil causing worms and other insects to come to the surface.
Morning for me. Here in NY, when it rains (as long as its not a total down pour), I love hitting the pipelines. I can glass for miles and run-n-gun along the edges and it has worked well for me in that past.
Quote from: NJstrutter on April 13, 2015, 11:28:16 PM
When it rains I definitely see more birds in the fields, especially in the morning. The times that I have hunted in the morning and it was raining the majority of times the birds seem to stay on the roost longer and then hit either nearby fields or open hardwoods. I have heard that the birds feel safer in these open areas. Not sure if this is true, but I have been told birds will also be more likely to hit open fields to feed because a steady rain will saturate the soil causing worms and other insects to come to the surface.
Nail on the head....they are eating, they seem to like to do that.
As far as hunting them.....rain or not....if I have time to do so.....I'M OUT THERE!!!!! They now make all kinds of great Gore-Tex....get out there!