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Started by FL-Boss, April 09, 2012, 04:35:12 PM
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FL-Boss
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Florida Turkey Hunters...
April 09, 2012, 04:35:12 PM
Are you still hearing birds at all? I havent heard anything since first 4 days of season. Just want to hear what others have to say. Soemtimes they will fire back up at the end of season I have heard?
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April 09, 2012, 07:43:49 PM
I was out last weekend and the birds were going nuts, maybe it was the location but very vocal, I will see again this weekend, hopefully they still are.
OSCEOLA GROUND AND POUND BABY !!!!!!!
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April 09, 2012, 07:44:18 PM
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: April 09, 2012, 07:51:10 PM by TrophyTracker
They are still out there, doing their thing. They may be quiet one or two days, then spark up on the very next. The key is to keep pounding away on them. When the going gets tough here, it becomes a different ballgame, where very subtle calling,knowing their travel routes and knowing the lay of the land become the Killer Plan.
This Osceola is from Last Tuesday. He wasn't tearing the woods up, but with patience and some very light, realistic calling, he couldn't resist.
Good luck, and Don't Give Up
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MiamiE
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April 09, 2012, 08:14:29 PM
I'm heading out Thursday night to central Florida for the last hunt of the season. We will see how it goes. I'm hoping for similar success from my last outing there!
MiamiE
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April 10, 2012, 08:20:07 AM
Lets hope all these hens are bred and the gobblers start responding to slight calling!
swamp_bird89
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April 12, 2012, 08:00:02 PM
They're still tearing down the woods in Lake and Seminole counties where I hunt....they will be gobbling in May too. Just like every year before.
TURKEYWHACKER
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April 13, 2012, 06:18:31 AM
Opening weekend was insane. Has tapered off since with on one day and off the next. Thats OK cause I've shot quite a few that came sneakin' in with lockjaw.
MiamiE
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April 13, 2012, 10:56:16 AM
Sitting down now. Only seen a few jakes and hens. Heard some gobbling way off in the morning.
blackmagic
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April 13, 2012, 11:19:07 AM
Seems to have been a little quiet. I just hope one of those sneaky quiet ones slips in so I can try to get my sister to squeeze the trigger sunday.
dadsahuntin
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April 13, 2012, 11:36:49 AM
Though I am surely not a seasoned turkey hunter, reading lots of other area turkey behaviors, things just dont seem as they should. I have been in the same WMA south of Central Florida at lease twice a week since youth hunt and have not heard or seen alot of birds, they seem to be staying quiet and going deep. I did manage a Jake second week that came in quiet with 2 others and a hen.
One thing I thought was strange this week out was the tremendous amount of KeeKee calling that I have been hearing, no hen yelp no gobbles. Can someone enlighten me as to if its possible the poults are already running around? How should I respond to a Kee Kee, or not at all? Since I usually have one of my boys with me I cant move around much.
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blackmagic
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April 13, 2012, 01:10:56 PM
Turkeywhacker and I also had birds KeeKeeing last weekend.
MiamiE
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April 15, 2012, 04:33:38 PM
We had a tough weekend although we did see birds. They were all jakes though. Friday morning we heard gobbling just across the palmettos to our right. He never showed his head although two short bearded jakes did. We decided against taking them both and wait for the gobbler. We also had gobbling behind us way off. Later on we set up under an oak and had two hens and a jake come in. It was my buddies turn to shoot so I look to my right and he's knocked out sleeping! Give him a nudge and he wakes up, but the jake busted us and took off. Turns out we should have taken those jakes earlier in the morning. Oh well, theyll be bigger next season. Saturday morning it rained all morning where we were and we didn't hear a single gobble, yelp, or cluck.
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