If you had to chose..

[ChesterCopperpot]

Daylight to noon and I'd kill him mid to late morning.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[GobbleNut]

I've killed a lot of afternoon birds in my day , but I've noticed with thinner turkey densities evening hunts are less eventful . Regardless of how many I've killed in the evening I wouldn't trade it for morning hunt if my life depended on it.

This is pretty much my perspective, as well.  Sitting in the woods at daybreak, listening as things come to life, and anticipating that first gobble are all part of spring gobbler hunting that are indispensable components to me.  As my screen name suggests, spring hunting is all about the gobble for me,...and regardless of where I have hunted, the amount of gobbling that I hear in those first few hours of daylight is usually many multiples of what I will hear later in the day or afternoon. 

I may not kill a turkey in the morning, but I usually get an earful of one of the things that attracted me to spring turkey hunting to begin with.  It's all about The Gobble...and the anticipation of what is to come after i hear it. 

[Kylongspur88]

I didn't hear a weapons restriction in there, therefore early morning on a hill overlooking a reclaim strip job with a .50 cal.

I'll agree with what was said above that with fewer birds afternoon hunts have been less productive.

[owlhoot]

Actually, the proposed scenario is pretty easy for me to relate to. More than once, after spending weeks without dropping the hammer on a bird, it has become worse than a simple matter of life or death!

Sent from my motorola edge 5G UW (2021) using Tapatalk

That is a real life situation right there. Truer words. 

[jmart241]

Daylight to noon

[eggshell]

I'm bored this morning so I will stir the pot more.

Are we talking strictly spring season?  If fall is part of this then definitely afternoon comes more into play, especially late afternoon. 

Another question, How confident are you that on any given day you can kill a turkey if given the challenge?

I know that on most of my turkeys hunts, in my senior years, my game is not 100% max effort. I do not concern myself with killing a bird on any given trip. I want to be around birds and work them, but will not put 100% into them if hunting is tough. I usually give myself the first week before I get totally serious. Still it has been 20+ years since it took me more than 5 days to fill at least one tag and usually both, at home. Too many seasons I went out all commando and filled my tags the first two days and then wishing I could hunt more. Old age cured that.

[Cottonmouth]

In Mississippi,  daylight to 11am. In the midwest, 1pm till 7pm. Midwest birds are very henned up after flydown in my experience over the years.

[ScottTaulbee]

I'm bored this morning so I will stir the pot more.

Are we talking strictly spring season?  If fall is part of this then definitely afternoon comes more into play, especially late afternoon. 

Another question, How confident are you that on any given day you can kill a turkey if given the challenge?

I know that on most of my turkeys hunts, in my senior years, my game is not 100% max effort. I do not concern myself with killing a bird on any given trip. I want to be around birds and work them, but will not put 100% into them if hunting is tough. I usually give myself the first week before I get totally serious. Still it has been 20+ years since it took me more than 5 days to fill at least one tag and usually both, at home. Too many seasons I went out all commando and filled my tags the first two days and then wishing I could hunt more. Old age cured that.

Strictly spring season, and I agree, since 2006 I have filled both of my tags in the first 2 days, at the latest 3 days with the exception of 2020 and last season. I still hit it hard, but generally now a days, the first part of the season is spent trying to get my dad on a bird, my best friend on a bird, and letting the kids (all 5 and under) tag along. I'm about 90% confident that I can be dropped anywhere with turkeys and have one on the ground in a couple days, if I'm hunting solo.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[Mossberg90MN]

Daylight til noon. But I've also struck gobblers from 3pm-5pm before that have now been alone for a bit. The ones that are struck in that time normally come in on a string.


Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

[snoman4]

For Osceolas, I've probably killed birds equally in the AM and PM since all day hunting was allowed.  I prefer the AM because there is nothing like that feeling of the sun rising and hearing the owls or crows fire that first gobble.  After flydown, I've had more birds gobble between 1 and 530 because of being henned up after flydown.   

Sent from my SM-A526U using Tapatalk

[mountainhunter1]

Early in my turkey hunting and for many years, I would have definitely said 12:00-5:00 in the afternoon would be my choice, but in recent years I have come to prefer getting it done in the morning when the chips are down. I tend to kill most of my birds between 9-11.

[MK M GOBL]

Daylight to Noon, I'd be scouting the noon to dark hours for the next morning 


MK M GOBL

[Howie g]

90% of the time I only hunt until 9am then get to work ... but if we are saying my life depended on it ?
I'm roosting one then going in with a q beam light and shooting him off roost .

[Dtrkyman]

Daylight to noon most places, but over the years I hunted/guided in Nebraska I would say 11am-5pm!

I am with Howie g if my life were on the line!