I've seen a lot on how different weather conditions can affect turkeys gobbling activity, but I haven't seen much about pressure. Does barometric pressure play a big role in gobbling? If so, what is the best for gobbling?
They seem to gobble the best here on clear days with little wind, other than the days like that when they don't. ;D Generally, they gobble less on rainy windy days. If It's actually the weather or the low pressure that comes with it I don't know, but I suspect it has more to do with the barometric pressure. :z-twocents:
Bob
My experience is calm clear days are best for roost gobbling. Overcast and calm is best for all day gobbling. However I have seen crappy days where they lit it up and perfect days I didn't hear a peep.
I think when the pressure is on the move! Pressure is what tells an animal or bird what conditions lie ahead. For instance, you'll see deer out moving before the storm or the low pressure hits. They become less active during these times. Then once it turns around, they're out eating like crazy.
Turkeys are not near as sensitive to pressure changes as animals that have more than one stomach. Turkeys have a different way of digesting food so they have to move and feed. Fronts and weather changes has a lot to do with turkeys roosting in different places to get out of the wind etc. Warmer weather and clear nights will have a gobbler talking more on a blue bird day most always. Turkeys eat sleep and talk in all kinds of weather. Dew-points may have a bigger affect than B. pressure...i think...
Your guess is good as mine.
I would be very interested in this...
Saturday was our opener with very nice weather, and I heard one bird gobble one time.
Almost same weather Yesterday, and multiple birds gobbling and continuing to gobble till I left.
Today the temperature dropped and it is very overcast... (I did not hunt today).
How would I look up the barometric pressures for the recent past for the area I was hunting? With the overcast today, I would assume the pressure was falling yesterday.
Marc, I have a app on my phone called "Scoutlook Hunting" that tells weather as well as barometric pressure, sun rise and set times, and moon phases. It also serves as a map just like google earth and you can mark your hunting spots on the map.
Rising pressure has all game frisky. That is only consistency I have ever made with weather. They gobble a lot when pressure is rising.
If you'd like to research it for yourself, go to WeatherUnderground.com... From there you can choose to look at historical weather from any date in the past that you have hunted and compare it to gobbling activity for that day. I have been doing this for years and have come to the conclusion that turkey gobbling is much harder to pin down than other trends, such as animal movement. I generally love to have a cold clear morning that warms up quickly after sunrise.
However, I've had those mornings like that where everything was the same from one day to the next from pressure to dew point and temp, and they were on fire one day and not the next. It's really anyone's guess as to what makes turkey do what they do. It could have been that a front moved in or moved out and that sudden change got them going, it could have been neither. One thing is for certain and that is the uncertainty in turkey hunting :funnyturkey: