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Favorite Hunting Terrain?

Started by El Pavo Grande, July 04, 2014, 01:56:40 AM

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Cove

Simply put, I could never choose just one. I guess that's why I do my best to chase them in each every spring.

The steep hardwood ridges will always hold a special place bc that's where I cut my teeth and for the most part those birds gave me my foundation. But since my first trip to the swamps of the South Florida Everglades there is just something eery and special about that place. The big cottonwood creek bottoms of KS and NE are always awesome too. But there is something surreal about hunting the Rockies and hearing that yodeling Merriam gobble echo through it, almost spooky. There's just so many more . . . no way to choose.  :OGturkeyhead:

West Augusta

Steep West Virginia ridges.  Big Timber or thickets, I'll take em both.
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tomstopper

Hardwoods (both ridges and bottoms) & power line cuts

jbrown

 I kill a lot of gobblers in farming country, but grew up huntin big river swamps which is so special to me! The big swamp is my favorite place to hunt anything!

waturkeynut

Well out here in WA. we have Pine mountains, some farm land and some dense rain forest to hunt. I mostly hunt the pine Mountains and probably prefer them over the rain forest because of how much the sound gets absorbed in the thick stuff. A gobbling tom can be within a hundred yards and not be heard. so yelps and clucks are almost impossible to pick up.

Marc

I hunt the foothills...  Rolling oaks to steep oak canyons...  I have a strong preference for the rolling oaks, but last season the canyons were better to me.
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GSLAM95

After chasing every subspecies of turkey out there in every kind of terrain imaginable it's difficult to actually pick a "favorite".
I would have to choose the big oak flats of the Eastern as there is nothing like hearing that deep loud ratchet gobble in the open hardwoods. 
Wait a minute....  Maybe I should have picked the live oak hammocks and swamps of Florida or the Mesquite flats of south Texas, the open prairies or Black Hills of South Dakota, the mountains of rocks in Sonora, the jungle in the Yucatan or as others have put it wherever I am blessed to be during turkey season.
Doesn't really matter, It's all good...  :icon_thumright:
 


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stinkpickle

Those echoing river bottoms!  Logging roads are a close second, but 90+% of my hunting now is limited to crop fields.  :(

gotcha

In South Florida,but not improved pasture 2-300 yards down the fenceline from a feeder.In mature cypress swamp with light filtering through,purple iris in full bloom.That is Florida hunting!Most videos and hunt shows never show this terrain.

J Hook Max

 I'm with Swampchicken. I grew up hunting in the Mississippi River bottoms and have seen some beautiful sights of big Toms coming through the open woods and swamps.
I also love hunting hilly ground because you can get quite close to the birds. Plus , mosquitoes aren't so bad.
I have access to some great pasture ground , but that is not my kind of hunting. See lots of birds and don't kill near as many as back in the woods.
Turkeys also gobble more in the woods which is a huge plus for excitement.