Thoughts on Hunting Freshly Thinned Pines????/

[Bayou Gold]

I would guess the timber is roughly 15 years.  they have just finished thinning and  left alot of smaller limbs, trees, debris spread on the ground, rather than piling it up.  My question is, will turkeys travel through this debris, or would it cause a turkey being called in to hang up.  the last thing needed is another reason for these elusive *&***&*s to hang up.  They seem to roost on the neighbors land and trying to decide the likelihood of me calling them through some of this mess.  thanks for any and all opinions or experiences. 

[honker22]

They love freshly thinned pines where I hunt in La.  In fact, i've seen 3 turkeys die this year.  2 were in thinned pines, the other was a 6 month old cutover.

[Bayou Gold]

thanks for the reply.  I have heard that turkeys will come in to feed on the bugs that have been stirred up from the thinning process.  Again my only concern is whether the debris  left on the ground in places will ruin a setup.  Ideally, one would avoid this debris all together but, unfortunately, I do not have that luxury and my hunting options are extremely limited.

[SSCsnood]

we have a chunk of 18yr pines that were thinned in November/December right in the middle of our 1000 ac lease, I liked it better before it was thinned because it put the birds in my "wheelhouse" the way I like to hunt them (which is get in real tight to drumming toms after they stop gobbling in the am)...anyways its about 300 ac of newly thinned pines with lots of pine debris and maple saplings layed over and not very quiet to walk through BUT between 3/8/14 and 4/1/14 I have put my brother on his first bird youth weekend, killed 3 myself (and a pine tree :/), another guy is sitting pretty at 4 birds 3 of which came from the same area and he put his son on his first bird this morning, and another guy with 1 kill. 50/50 2yr old/3yr old birds killed within a 300yd radius of the center of the freshly thinned pines....so that's 9 in a little under a month, its been a fantastic spring for our group of guys and I would have to say that the birds are very workable in that stuff. the bird I killed sunday came in running and hurdling all the stuff between him and I...it was quite comical to see, acted like hes never even sniffed a hen turkey before! thinned pines = dead turkeys   

[R AJ]

Worry about other things or better yet- Worry about nothing. No problem for turkeys at all.
All the scraping will have them out there scratching and new stuff coming out next year such as blackberry, pioneer grasses, weeds, will feed deer and turkey. Next year will be even better.

[highwaygun]

If there are turkey in the area dont worry about they terrain. Hell I called a longbeard across 200 yds of cukkleburrs one time in the late 90's. I wouldnt have walked through there if you payed me but he didnt seem to care at all.