Florida Public Land

[Gooserbat]

Well done

[daddyduke]

Congrats! Nice Birds!

[outdoors]

Great story and great birds! Which public land were you hunting?

Will say I am hunting south of a line from Tampa to Orlando. Just pick any Public land in Florida and learn it; it doesn't matter where you go it will be crowded. If you are a Nonresident hunting florida the first time and meet a not so polite resident hunter get over it. They have to put up with a lot of extra traffic on public land just to hunt turkey on a yearly bases. So unless you plane on coming back year after year , it might be cheeper going with a guide. But if you don't like I did, you might meet up with a supper bunch of great people to tell story around the camp fire each night. Guess thats where the phrase SOUTHERN HOSPITALITY comes from.

Well spoken, it is getting CROWDED there are ways , but ,

[kyturkeyhunter4]

Congrats! You have killed a couple of really nice birds job well done 

[makestomstremble]

Those are two sure trophys. Congratulations. What part of Oklahoma are you headed to?

[MISSISSIPPI Double beard]

Congrats

[PharmHunter]

  Awesome stuff

[goblr77]

Congrats on a fine FL season.


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[noletracker]

awesome spurs!

[ddturkeyhunter]

Those are two sure trophys. Congratulations. What part of Oklahoma are you headed to?

Have only been there once in 2012, at that time we picked the counryes in the nw part of state with the least amount of birds so less hunters. It helped a little will see if we can do it again. Any more detail has to be in PM.

[tomstopper]

Nice. Congrats

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[camotoe]

Nice birds, if you like to walk the big cypress will give you a chance to get away from most people .


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[surehuntsalot]

congrats on your birds

[oakraidia]

Congrats, nice story!

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[Beards n bbq]

Recently moved back to central Florida from Ohio(ten year stay), learned turkey hunting on Easterns and fell in love with the sport.  After coming back I feel the need to add an osceola fan to my colection.  For the time being I am limited to state ground and have been going to richloam.  Have seen some nice birds harvested there but not having much luck myself.  Not hearing much gobbling there and have not seen any male birds, have seen some hens and some sign.  Do these birds not gobble as much as easterns, are they done breeding, call shy, or just not a large population.  Ive hunted cypress, pines and hardwoods with no response.  There are several burn areas that are starting to come back and i did see some hens there pecking and scratching.  For anyone familiar with richloam, i have been hunting the west end of the property south of highway 50, advice from a local. 
does anyone out there have suggestions for a better area or hunting technique which would be more productice for the florida bird. I assumed my collection of calls and calling style used on ohio easterns would work here but I may be mistaken