Spring burn?

[2eagles]

There's an area I really like and do well on that is sometimes set aside and sometimes a food plot. This year they did a spring burn not too long ago. I'm wondering if the turkeys will still use it.? Lots of strutting and hookups usually happen there most years. If it was warmer and not so dry, I would expect nice green shoots and bugs, but it's getting close to our season, so I'm not overly hopeful. What do you think?

[ManfromGreenSwamp]

They (turkey) absolutely are drawn to fresh burns especially if turning back green.


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[Dtrkyman]

Magnet!!!  One rain and it will be neon green with fresh growth.

[ManfromGreenSwamp]

I burned this unit last week and the very next day there was a big strutter in the black. Head fire engine red!


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[Crghss]

If it's 2-3 weeks after that's about perfect. Look for some grasshoppers or greens they may feed on.

I set along an edge of 3 week old burn couple years ago. There was a bunch of grasshoppers along the trail  that turkeys where feeding on. Hunters would come along and turkeys would run off. Little while later I'd hear some clucks and out they'd come feeding on those grasshoppers. Another hunter would come along and it play out over and over.

[bbcoach]

Birds will definitely be there.  One good spring rain and that place will look like a green food plot.  MAGNET!

[Sixes]

I killed one last week in a fresh burn that just had started to green up. I love to hunt around and in them. You just have to make sure they are completely finished, I have seen them start back smoking with a big wind.

Hardest part is trying to stay hidden

[bbcoach]

Hardest part is trying to stay hidden
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Scout them hard and find their travel routes, put up a popup blind and BOOM!

[Sasha and Abby]

I have killed them while it was still smoking...  they eat everything that was cooked.

[3bailey3]

They love them but wish they did them before season or right after season open, not after hens have gone to nest.

[Kansan]

There is no better turkey hunting than in a fresh burn! Turkeys are drawn to a burn like flies to s@&t. We're in the process of burning our 5,000 acre ranch, and saw the turkeys strutting this morning in a spot we burned yesterday.

[3bailey3]

Kansan yall got ant openings?