when are you gonna start listening for Gobblers?

[sits in trees]

when are you guys n ladies gonna start stepping out on the back deck in the dark and cold in yer PJ's to start listening for those crazed GOBBLERS!!!! ?

[Lawdwaz]

Honestly, about 4:30am on May 1st.

Certainly not what most will do but I've lost "it" a little for gobblers. Family constraints, work, fuel prices and changing times have done that to me. As stated for years, YMMV.

I wouldn't criticize anyone for doing it, just don't mess with them too much.

[Steuben Jerry]

I've been hearing them behind the house for three weeks now. They're gobbling right now.

[sits in trees]

Honestly, about 4:30am on May 1st.

Certainly not what most will do but I've lost "it" a little for gobblers. Family constraints, work, fuel prices and changing times have done that to me. As stated for years, YMMV.

I wouldn't criticize anyone for doing it, just don't mess with them too much.

YMMV?

[ants]

First light on May 1st. for me too. I have been driving around checking the fields for birds, but as far as getting up at zero dark hundred, when I can't shoot one....I'll pass.

[tughillhunter]

YMMV?

yoour mileage may vary.

[growalot]

I'll Be looking to photograph them starting late March....if weather brings them back up the hill

[Meat First]

Stepped out on back deck this morning at 6 but no gobbles here. Just cars, bus, train some sirens....must be too early yet.

[landtracdeerhunter]

I'll Be looking to photograph them starting late March....if weather brings them back up the hill

SAM

[Civitas]

I don't need to get up early. At 9:30 this morning, I counted 4 in a field near my house. I almost ran over a nice tom as he was crossing the road. Too bad the field is right near a daycare center.

[Lawdwaz]

YMMV

SAM

You guys are NUTS!

Guess what, I just got a call from my buddy in Arcade. He called to say that he went out to grab his morning paper out of the mail box and a thundering gobble hit him from across the road. The big Ol Tom sounded off twice before the 9* temperature was too much for my buddy.

NOW I'm fired up! LOL........

[josephmrtn]

after i get back from central america..... yup thats right im leaving you all... SNIFF................. LOL im "going dark" at about 3 am monday morning and will have VERY spotty internet connection for the next few weeks...

[sits in trees]

after i get back from central america..... yup thats right im leaving you all... SNIFF................. LOL im "going dark" at about 3 am monday morning and will have VERY spotty internet connection for the next few weeks...

what in tarnation you goin thar fer young lad???

[josephmrtn]

"The fun of it"..... were goin to visit some friends... plus i'd like to get in some time in the sun, ect. LOL

[F-150]

Joe you don't need to go to Central America for sunshine you get that come planting time driving tractor, unless you have a cab tractor. Boy growing up on a farm has changed a lot in the last forty years

[WNY Bowhunter]

In a few weeks...

[growalot]

Have fun...but be very careful Joseph....Scares me when our daughter visits college friends there..Or her boy friend has to go for work...

[josephmrtn]

Joe you don't need to go to Central America for sunshine you get that come planting time driving tractor, unless you have a cab tractor. Boy growing up on a farm has changed a lot in the last forty years

LOL yeah i found that out YEARS ago LOL

Have fun...but be very careful Joseph....Scares me when our daughter visits college friends there..Or her boy friend has to go for work...

yeah i dont wanna get robbed!!!

[growalot]

It's not robbing I was referring to...it's kid napping...When the BF goes for work they are told to stay in the hotels compound and if they go out to take security with them...

[TeeBugg]

Hoping to go this weekend to do a lil scouting and listening....just to get the blood pumping!

[Gthphtm]

They have been gobbeling by me yesterday on and off all day.Went to the PO in the afternoon and there were 5 bearded ones right along side of the road.

[2012_taco]

I know the fuel prices are going to take their toll but I do need to check out a couple of new spots. You can never have enough places to hunt turkeys.

[wztirem]

They have been gobbeling by me yesterday on and off all day.Went to the PO in the afternoon and there were 5 bearded ones right along side of the road.

 

Each year around this time (today) I visit the graves of my parents and grandparents at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx and at Gate of Heaven in Westchester and I  am amazed at the increased number of turkeys I see every year. I always bring various calls with me and get those gobblers to vocalize. My children are amazed that I can evoke such responses from the Toms and in such close proximity.

[TeeBugg]

I know the fuel prices are going to take their toll but I do need to check out a couple of new spots. You can never have enough places to hunt turkeys.

I know that feeling. Got a few spots that are a few hours away but im not sure ill be able to make it to them.

[ghug92]

This year with the weather being so cold, we might even see some more intense gobbling towards mid to late may compared to the last few years of intense gobbling during april and early may. Saw a bunch today and they are down to their small flocks. No gobbling today though.