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2023 Turkey Hunting Thread

Saw 3 up close from the truck this morning. They are moving and strutting great right now, just hope it continues on Saturday
 
woodsdog2 said:
I agree, here in NY they try to time it (May1st) so most of the hens have been bred before the season starts in earnest so we are usually starting our season in between the two major peaks of spring gobbling activity. 85% of the time you hear roost gobbling then nothing much after fly down. As the hens begin to want to sneak off to lay, it gets better and later morning gobbling picks up. I’m more of a purist and rely on patience and intermittent calling to bring them in. I may pick up my run and gun game on public more this spring though or if I pop over the border for a few hunts.
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Yall have a noon cutoff time right? Or is that Pennsylvania?
 
Micneador said:
Yall have a noon cutoff time right? Or is that Pennsylvania?
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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.
 
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 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.
 
0742 this past Saturday…..

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dalton916 said:
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.
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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.
 
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