After 9 turkey hunting

[Ocdeerhunter]

I was out today hunting with my dad. Saw a bunch of turkeys almost shot one just out of range. After he left it was about 9 we walked til 12 not even hearing a gobble. I was just wondering do they go to swamps and do they gobble much?

[turkeyfeathers]

Was he henned  up ? Birds may gobble a lot one day and nothing the next. If we could figure out turkeys and it was easy most of us wouldn't do it. Turkeys do have some set patterns , from roost to feed, they'll roam to same areas and back to roost. Pattern them

[ATbuckhunter]

What tirkey feathers said! Some days they'll gobble a bunch and sometimes they wont. Did you try calling to them?

[wildcat junkie]

Once the hens start sitting on clutches of egg later in the season, from about 10:30 AM until the legal cut off at noon can be the most productive times.

When the hens give the gobbler the slip to sit on their eggs, the horny old Tom gets lonely.

He'll come looking for love when he hears your calls.

[hunter49]

  Try a shock call sometime using a crow call, just give a single loud blast on it & listen  sometimes they will gobble right back.

[Pygmy]

I've killed lots of gobblers late in the morning.

They don't gobble as much on their own, but if you can get a tom to respond late morning to midday, you have a better chance to kill him than if you hear him at dawn.

Last spring I killed one of the best all around gobblers I have ever killed. 22 1/4 pounds, 10 " + beard and 1 1/4" spurs..He bit the dust at 11:15 AM..

Edited April 26, 2015 by Pygmy

[growalot]

Hhhmm after 9 alright...one shot gun blast from neighbors about 30 mins ago...waited and waited for another "target"shot...nope Well he must really have the gun sighted in well , needing only one shot ...or.....

[turkeyfeathers]

Hhhmm after 9 alright...one shot gun blast from neighbors about 30 mins ago...waited and waited for another "target"shot...nope Well he must really have the gun sighted in well , needing only one shot ...or.....

At about $8 a pull I only shoot once to make sure gun didn't get bumped in the safe  when I put it on paper ever year before season

[G-Man]

After 9 turkey hunting for me comes down to scouting where are the birds going and why. By me they head for food by 9 so cut corn fields, clover fields, by 1030 it's hot and they retreat to timber to loaf a bit and Rest.

[Marion]

At about $8 a pull I only shoot once to make sure gun didn't get bumped in the safe when I put it on paper ever year before season

$8 a shot? What are you shooting? Must be gold plated lead.

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[beachpeaz]

After I am confident they are off their roost and out of the area I am sitting, if I don't hear any birds, i go commando on them.

 

What I mean, is for as sharp as eyesight they have, they are equally as dumb.

 

Don't be affraid to get up and walk, go find them, and actually scare them to the point they all seperate.   If you sit back down and are very, very quiet for about 10-15 minute then start some light calling, I have been very succesful in bringing birds back in again.  They want to flock back up.  And, if that Tom lost his girl in the commotion, you can bet he will respond.

 

Sometimes people get too strategic and careful with Turkey.  They are not deer!  They do not have a memory like a deer.  They will come back to a call as long as you give it a bit of time and the entire flock didn't stay together and head off together.

[stubby68]

After I am confident they are off their roost and out of the area I am sitting, if I don't hear any birds, i go commando on them.

 

What I mean, is for as sharp as eyesight they have, they are equally as dumb.

 

Don't be affraid to get up and walk, go find them, and actually scare them to the point they all seperate.   If you sit back down and are very, very quiet for about 10-15 minute then start some light calling, I have been very succesful in bringing birds back in again.  They want to flock back up.  And, if that Tom lost his girl in the commotion, you can bet he will respond.

 

Sometimes people get too strategic and careful with Turkey.  They are not deer!  They do not have a memory like a deer.  They will come back to a call as long as you give it a bit of time and the entire flock didn't stay together and head off together.

                               

                                     So turkey hunting really isn't your thing? A turkey is probably the smartest animal in the woods. What you are describing sometimes works in the fall good luck in the spring. No they are not deer if they were they would be easy to get. Spook a deer the run a short distance and stop to see what scared them. Spook a turkey it is gone. Turkey can remember calls and if you spook them or miss or they just feel something isn't right when comeing in they are gone and remember that call sound and will not even answer it and even if they are talking and hear that call they will shut up and leave.