Just WOW.................

[jordanz7935]

Been a long winter up here in CNY... snow is just giving way to bare ground. Saw my first strutter yesterday.  Pointless to even think about listening for another month up here. So much can change with birds in the week before season it can be frustrating keeping tabs on properties. The whole late winter/early spring flock breakup is a big factor for us. Depending on the weather it can be early/mid april- first week of may. That said i cant wait to get the ball rolling!!!

[Paulmyr]

Spent a month in Georgia my 2nd season hunting. I cold front came in a couple days prior to the season opener. Temps down in the 20's for daytime highs and a little snow. Them southern birds did not like that cold one bit. Took 3 weeks before I heard my 1st gobble and that was hunting everyday. Seeing some birds but no gobbles. After that they let loose and were gobbling very good. Not sure when the start date was back then. I'm guessing I didn't hear a gobble til the end of march/ 1st week in April.

[fmf]

Lack of preseason gobbling never bothers me, neither does lack of sign in areas that I know. What concerns me more is even when I'm tagged out I go listen the last several days of the season and on a average year i know where 6-8 gobblers that made it through the season are, some years considerably more. I only heard 2 last year and they were about 5 miles apart and I was covering a lot of area. They got pretty hammered last year, plus I only saw a couple jakes all year. We will just have to see how things shake out this year I guess.

[Pluffmud]

Just because you aint hearing turkeys, dont mean turkeys aint there. Ive been scoutimf the past couple weeks. Two gobbles, both within 2 minutes of one another, is all ive heard. Lots and lots of sign though. Idk where everyone is located that isnt hearing birds, but the SW and SE both just had a major historic winter event, and it was in the 20s for almost 4 days here in SC last week... I didnt even both to go listen those mornings.

[mtns2hunt]

Just because you aint hearing turkeys, dont mean turkeys aint there.

This: plus I scouted this am and did not hear a bird. I did follow what looked like a cattle stamped up one hill. Large bunch of turkeys working the ground. Found some gobbler sign and one dead Gobbler. I suspect a Bobcat. I will be after him this fall. Already have the cameras out and found tracks along one of the creeks. Already killed one this season but appears the population may be healthy. We will see.

[Hoosier2]

Went out today and the birds were fired up. Heard 8-12 gobblers. Lots of grouped birds still. Big boys were out in green fields strutting away. Bird population looks as good as it has in a few years. Attempting to shoot first bow bird. Southern Indiana.


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[justin.arps]

They have been logging the farm above my hunting spot the last 6 months,on the ridge the turkeys normally roost on. I went out Wednesday morning and didn't hear or see the first bird. So I covered some ground and listened around other places and they are tight lipped.


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