afternoon spring turkey hunting

[gob09]

i'm just wondering how many of you guys hunt in the afternoon say from 3:30-4:00 oclock time till dark.
thats when i did most of my hunting this past spring had some awesome hunts but only had one kill in the afternoon anything you guys do different in the afternoon
i hunted them the only way i knew just like i would do in the morning

[Crappiepro]

Hey Wes,   I took a bird at 4:30 in the afternoon 2 years ago. I've never really thought about hunting past about 11 or 12 before then. I will hunt the evenings now! I look for the areas where they where roosted that morning and set up on them in a blind with decoys.  I may only call alittle or call alot if the birds alone and fired up. We got my buddies bird that way at 6 or so in the evening.

[gob09]

thanks brad
i love hunting them in the afternoon

[HogBiologist]

I love afternoon hunting.  Way different from morning hunting, but i like it.

[Basser69]

I have killed a lot of birds in the afternoon. I usually try and set up on a field edge, if I can near were some birds were roosting that morning. And just blind call. Most of the birds I have killed this way usually come in silent

[BHhunter]

I hunt the evenings a lot. I've probably killed half my birds then. I like to set up on their route to a roost and call just enough to tell when they're on their way. Easier to get in the roost area undetected before they get there. Less competition on public land also. Then I can sleep in in the morning, or have a better idea were to be the next morning.

[gob09]

shawn i think your missing out on a lot of excitement

[guesswho]

If I haven't killed one by the afternoon then I'm still hunting.  About the only thing I do different in the afternoons is I usually get a visual first then pursue him, mornings I usually hear him first then pursue him.

[davisd9]

I hunt from the time they fly off the limb to the time they fly onto the limb.  Killed my better bird this year about 30-45 minutes before dark.  It takes some different tatics at times but it is fun.

[Spring Creek Calls]

I do a lot of late morning/early afternoon hunting. I've had a lot of success that time of day, the hens go off to lay an egg or set and the toms become much more shootable. Here's the aftermath of an afternoon hunt here in MI that I shot a good bird, the first with my own call.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYLTjQa4oHg&context=C22ff0ADOEgsToPDskI-CLA2XxJNiD0b4cthomg9

[dirt road ninja]

I have killed a lot of birds in the afternoon. I usually try and set up on a field edge, if I can near were some birds were roosting that morning. And just blind call. Most of the birds I have killed this way usually come in silent

I do about the same thing. Turkeys spend the entire day on their feet walking around, if legal why not hunt all day. Every minute spent hunting them helps stacks the odds in your favor.

[Divenut2]

Would love to hunt all day, but the public land (Stat Parks) I hunt here in IL requires hunter to stop hunting at 1:00 PM. 

[Kylongspur88]

Afternoon is a lot of fun. I like to set up on a field in the afternoon and head back to where I heard them that morning before dark. The best thing about the afternoon is that tom is probably going to be lonely..

[gunnerj]

Iowa is 1/2 hour before sunrise to sunset. If I got a tag, I got the gun.

[handcannon]

The majority of my birds have been taken before noon time. I do like evening hunts and usually by that time I have done way too much walking and I'm ready to just sit and get still till dark. I usually try to get in the area of a roost and pop a squat waiting to hopefully hear one gobble. If I can, I try to figure out the route they are gonna take to the roost and hurry and get between them. If by chance they do skirt around me, well at least I'm close enough to know exactly where they flew up but far enough away I can sneak out back to the golf cart.