You TN guys been hearing anything? I am in East TN right on the KY line and it has been silent. One gobble and then nothing the rest of the day.
Anyone else seeing the same thing?
Im just across the line from you in Va and its been rough here. Called 1 in for a buddy and I missed 1 friday after another buddy was suppose to have shot him at 25 yards but the dummy pulled the trigger and flinched bad cause the safety was on :TooFunny: I rushed my shot and missed at 31 yards. Seeing a lot of gobblers but all have been with hens and pretty much all gobbling is done once they hit the ground if they even gobble at all. It will only get better :icon_thumright:
Yeah here in Mid Tenn it is extremely quite, birds have even quit gobbling on the roost, haven't heard but 2 gobbles on the ground and that was from the first hit then nothing.
I didn't hear one gobble today. I should have had one yesterday, but couldn't get on him in time before he got too far out.
heard 2 this morning, one gobbled great and the other only 1 time. Henned up.
The rest of the guys around here are hearing zip too. You guys rekon it is hens?
heard nothing this morning also, very quiet
I'm a little farther east than you in Johnson City, TN. Yesterday I heard zero birds on the roost and finally got one to gobble at 8:25. He was forever silenced at 8:58 :you_rock:
They should be a little easier to hunt as the season goes on and the hens are nesting. Hang in there and good luck to all.
real quite here too. I heard one gobble two times last Tuesday afternoon a long ways off but I was able to give him a free ride in the bed of my truck. I have not heard one sense.
same here.... They are starting to hit the fields more now though
I'm positive we have a real bad coyote problem in TN and that has been the problem with the birds
being shutmouthed....We all need to start huntin and killing these yotes before they get way out of hand,but I think they already are!!KILL EVERY ONE YOU SEE!!!!! :angry9:
SCC, I never pass on a chance at a 'yote. They are shoot on sight as far as I'm concerned. Deer season, turkey season, whatever. I hunt'em hard where I am too.
Quote from: Tom Foolery on April 19, 2011, 11:02:02 AM
SCC, I never pass on a chance at a 'yote. They are shoot on sight as far as I'm concerned. Deer season, turkey season, whatever. I hunt'em hard where I am too.
Same here :agreed:
I hope they start gobbling soon up there, because I am headed just North of you in Kentucky next week.
Had some gobbling the 2nd saturday and nothing since. Not even seeing any toms since. Hens are everywhere.
I'm hunting Upper East Tennessee in the NF mostly. Vacating and hunting almost everyday. I haven't heard a gobble in three days. Very frustrating.
Im in west TN right on the KY border and its been rough also. All the birds Ive seen have been henned up bad. Not much gobbling at all.
Quote from: Crutch on April 19, 2011, 09:33:51 PM
Had some gobbling the 2nd saturday and nothing since. Not even seeing any toms since. Hens are everywhere.
My situation is some gobbling opening weekend and then I have not seen a tom since, very very weird. I keep seeing hens and they are always alone, but no toms.
In Eastern Kentucky, Pike county to be exact.
They are being pretty quiet here as well. They will gobble a bit but don't seem to answer a call and don't seem to be interested in coming in. I think they have had enough of them bitch hens..... :)
Maybe when the weather breaks they will start gobbling better. For what it's worth the long range forcast shows some better weather for next week.
Improved any for you guys? Still not much here.........
They are all so henned up here in Middle TN. They are still gobbling just not responding to anything. I have tried all times of the day and.....nothing.
Maybe the hens will start sitting this week.
I'm in Roane County and it's been weird here also. I killed one opening day, the birds were gobbling good then. We had about ten birds gobbling and coming in that day. The next week we went back and I heard three birds but they were a good piece away. I hunted a quota hunt the next and called in two birds (1 on Saturday and 1 on Sunday) but couldn't get either one down and haven't hard a gobble since last Sunday. Yesterday was the first time I haven't heard a gobble on my property since I don't know when. I don't know what is going on.
Not much action here on Saturday. Had one gobbling, but couldn't call him in. Hopefully next weekend will be better for all of us.
I got my first ever Sat morning. Located and called him in with a box call, finished the date with a pot call.
Starting to get in rythem here. Still henned up for most part of morning but hens are doing their thing around mid day. Killed one sat morning at 6:55. Never even gobbled but he wasn't far out of the field where heroosted so I'm convinced he seen my decoys at first light.
Gobbles are tough to come by here in SC too. I didn't hear anything until well after daylight this morning. A spot where I normally hear 4-5 birds and I only heard one.
The 1st two weeks, the birds were gobbling, but they have shut down here completely. This whole season has been a lot different than the last 2 seasons for me. Not as many birds strutting in the fields and less gobbling once they fly down. Last week I had a longbeard walk 70 yrds from my blind and never even stopped to look when I gave him a little yelp.??????? Maybe they are getting a little call shy from the hunting pressure...not sure, but if it wasn't for a hen coming to my hen decoy last Friday, I would not have had a shot at a gobbler. To me....the whole season has been a little strange. If they ain't gobbling, I loose interest. Good luck to everyone.
I haven't heard one gobble in a while. Been scouting new public land and I have had no luck at all. Gonna try again in the morning and a couple days this coming week.
I'm not sure what is going on either. I hunted Friday in east Tennessee and I had two birds gobble all day. One wouldn't come to a call at all, and the other got intercepted by a hen about 50 to 60 yards in front of me. They didn't start gobbling to later in the morning, the hot one started at 10:30. I read an article this weekend were a turkey biologist said that turkey have a tendency to not gobble much during unusually warm springs. That seems to be holding true for the area that I'm in. It has been a much warmer spring than usual with a lot wind. It's been a wet and stormy one also. Who knows? All I know is that I'll be back out there the first chance I get.