Turkey season vs. Deer season

[jblackburn]

If I didn't like eating deer so much, I wouldn't hunt them. Longbeards hammering on a limb at daybreak is where it's at!

[wvlimbhanger]

While I do enjoy a peaceful sit in the blind or treestand bowhunting, it pales in comparison to my joy of spring turkey hunting.  After about 3 days in a row of an alarm going off at 5 am in deer season I start to hit the snooze a few times and maybe even miss a morning.  I am just as excited to get out of bed the first time the alarm sounds on the last day of turkey season as I am the first day of season. 

[owlhoot]

Gotta say turkey . The spring woods has been a great time to to relax and enjoy those gobblers hammer away.
You know they are there but the anticipation of what may happen next is second to none.

[WNCTracker]

No doubt it's turkey.  I spend a lot of time thinking about turkeys while hunting for deer, and it's never the other way around.  Also, I never even think to check in on deer forums, but here I am in deer season posting on OG...

[Marc]

Ducks for me....

[daddyduke]

Turkey for me. When I'm deer hunting I can watch them come and go without any regrets but when a bird comes in hot and gobbling I've got to lay the hammer down.

[beakbuster10]

Turkeys and green heads over deer, with turkeys being first. Don't get me wrong, I love deer hunting too. But never once during spring gobbler season do I find myself saying, "sure wish deer season would get here."  I long for the spring every time I even think about hunting.


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[Gobspur]

Turkey hunting till I die! 

[hs strut]

not a single doubt in my mind. turkey hunting all the way

[Spitten and drummen]

turkey hunting is my passion , but i will say bowhunting deer is a close second. i quit rifle hunting about 6 years ago and hunt the whole season with a bow. if i had too choose , turkeys get the nod.

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

A big deer is much harder to come by than a big gobbler.

I consider myself a turkey hunter but have been saving my entire young adult life to purchase 200-250 acres in southern Iowa to deer hunt. Successfully hunting mature deer and turkeys requires very different skill sets, both of which I enjoy significantly.  I'd certainly give up deer hunting before I ever surrendered by ability to turkey hunt but I enjoy both pursuits.

[VA_Birdhunter]

The love and passion I have for turkey hunting is unmeasurable over deer hunting!   I just love everything about it and have from day one on my first spring gobbler hunt with my dad at 8 yrs old!  God bless

[turkaholic]

Love them both, BUT turkeys are at the very top of everything! Deer don't keep me awake all night waiting for time to get up.

[Swampchickin234]

#1.  Mallards and Long beards are tied.  I thank the Good Lord that the seasons do not overlap. 
I love them equally, and could not put one before the other. 

#2.  Deer excite me.  I'm all about the early bow season, love the rut in early November, but as duck season opens, deer come to a halt. 

I guess that's why we have seasons at different times. 

Nah, I just love it all.


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[Hooks' n' Beards']

I would give up duck,grouse,rabbit,deer,bear and moose hunting if i only had one animal to hunt,it would be wild turkeys no doubt.I live to hunt wild turkeys.