Preseason Scouting Trip

[Laloom83]

Great start to Connecticut preseason scouting!

https://youtu.be/qxxgFRBEYwQ

[GobbleNut]

Enjoyed your video. Overall, I thought it was well done and I liked the discussion about tactics and possible hunting decisions while listening to gobblers getting after it!  Good stuff there.

Noted a couple of things.  It's hard to believe a state the size of Connecticut allows five gobblers during the season, and that all of them can be killed on the same day.  Absolutely ridiculous! ...and a total waste of a valuable resource regardless of how many birds there are.

Second thing,...the discussion about calling to birds preseason will probably get some attention here.  Particularly the part about calling to private land birds that you can't hunt.  Not taking any position on it myself, but I suspect others here might...   

[Laloom83]

Enjoyed your video. Overall, I thought it was well done and I liked the discussion about tactics and possible hunting decisions while listening to gobblers getting after it!  Good stuff there.

Noted a couple of things.  It's hard to believe a state the size of Connecticut allows five gobblers during the season, and that all of them can be killed on the same day.  Absolutely ridiculous! ...and a total waste of a valuable resource regardless of how many birds there are.

Second thing,...the discussion about calling to birds preseason will probably get some attention here.  Particularly the part about calling to private land birds that you can't hunt.  Not taking any position on it myself, but I suspect others here might...   

Thanks for the reply.  In the past it was 5 birds during the spring but only 2 could be taken on state land and 3 on private land. There never was a daily restriction on those 5.  Now it's 5 spring birds anywhere state land or private.  On top of that craziness you can shoot jakes.  Just when you thought it couldn't get any worse there's also a fall season.  Between bow and shogun in the fall you can get 5 more and even shoot hens, jakes, and/ or Tom's.  I'm originally from Mississippi so obviously I think these regulations are ludicrous.  Absolute insanity! 

Thanks for the note on calling birds preseason. I rarely call to a bird unless I'm hunting him, but we saw some birds in a random farm field right off the side of the road.  Most likely a farm no one is allowed to hunt.  It's a lot of anti hunters here so it can be brutal finding private land! 


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[GobbleNut]

Yep, that "we've got lots of turkeys so let's just mow 'em down" attitude is what has helped get some states to the sad position they are in with their turkey populations.  Turkey hunters have got to eventually realize that turkey hunting is not the same as upland game or waterfowl hunting in terms of body counting. 

[Laloom83]

Yep, that "we've got lots of turkeys so let's just mow 'em down" attitude is what has helped get some states to the sad position they are in with their turkey populations.  Turkey hunters have got to eventually realize that turkey hunting is not the same as upland game or waterfowl hunting in terms of body counting.

I like Mississippi rules.  3 Tom's no jakes unless you're youth and no fall season. 2 years ago Connecticut law made you end at noon.  Now it's all day hunting. I honestly liked that noon rule because it made me go home.  Now I stay in trouble with my wife!


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[GobbleNut]

2 years ago Connecticut law made you end at noon.  Now it's all day hunting. I honestly liked that noon rule because it made me go home.  Now I stay in trouble with my wife!

I hear ya', buddy!