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2023 Turkey Hunting Thread
- Thread starter peteherbst
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Yall have a noon cutoff time right? Or is that Pennsylvania?
MD has noon cutoff. I hate it! Last 10 days or so of the season is all day though. I've only shot one bird heading back to roost since I started hunting though. It is a decent tactic if you know the roost but they usually come back silent. At that point in the season they've been howled and hooted at by a million hunters tho and dont talk much anyway. And I rarely hear them on the roost in the evening in md wherever I am hunting. Always funny listening to all the fake owls echoing throughout the woods tho haha.
Yes sir! NY is 1/2 hour before sunrise till noon in the spring. Not sure about PA.
PA Spring Gobbler season:
Apr 29-May 13- 1/2 hr before sunrise to 12pm.
May 15-May 30- 1/2 hr before sunrise until 1/2 hr after sunset.
Apr 29-May 13- 1/2 hr before sunrise to 12pm.
May 15-May 30- 1/2 hr before sunrise until 1/2 hr after sunset.
I understand evening hunts but I've killed a bunch of birds really close to that noon cut off time. Makes it rough especially for a traveling hunter that has a finite amount of time to kill one.
9-noon will always be my favorite time. Like @woodsdog2 said by May 1 it can be quiet after fly down but I always seem to fire one up between 10-12. Not fun when you finally get one going and it’s 11:30 lol
I have not hunted a lot of evenings and it’s something I need to start doing after May 15 when we actually can hunt later than noon
I have not hunted a lot of evenings and it’s something I need to start doing after May 15 when we actually can hunt later than noon
I killed my big bird this year at 3:15 in the afternoon. Couple years ago I killed both my birds in the afternoon. Open fields in the evening have been good to me. More finesse calling just to let him know a hen is there and not hammering cuts at him.
Nice hooks0745 this past Sunday (not me, DIL)….
A man of culture I see. Who made that trumpet?0742 this past Saturday…..
I been pondering over getting one.
Think I have four or five wingbone calls and am trying to get my hands on a peacock as I've heard they make great wingbone calls.
Lewis Stowe. He passed away this past year. I would always send him pictures of the birds I killed with his calls. I hope the phone number is still in the family because I sent him a picture of that one too.
We lost a great man for sure. If you were fortunate enough to call and he had one available without getting on the list, he would ship it to you that day, BEFORE he got your check in the mail and before he even knew you. He would just say I’m not worried about that, you will send it. They don’t make them like that anymore.
The wingbone that got him killed (middle) and the wing bones he turned into. Love these calls, hate that they are getting more and more mainstream, used to be a call they hadn’t heard before
No doubt. I used to slam on brakes when I did see a road kill turkey so I could jump out and cut off the wings if it was a hen, lol
I still do and will continue to do so!