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<blockquote data-quote="muddyboots" data-source="post: 4212588" data-attributes="member: 1679"><p>I get chastised for saying this but in our part of the world on my lease we missed the best hunting. I've hunted the same piece of ground for 25 years. Our best hunting and gobbling happens before the dogwoods bloom. I looked back in my journal and they bloomed last yr on April 14 on our lease and this year they bloomed the Friday before the reg season opened. Since the season I have killed or had a hand in killing 5 longbeards. None of them made a peep. They fly down and strut with hens til they go back and roost so no need to gobble. Our pines got thinned this year and we can see a 300 to 400 yards. The ones we have killed we find a good vantage point and literally start glassing like we were hunting out west or something. If i can spot a gobbler that is alone he will come but this is the weird part. Since I can see them I can tell how they react. I've used every call in my vest and the only one that makes them come looking is a box call. They won't even quit walking when I use a mouth call or any kind of pot call. Grab the box and they turn and come looking. One other lease member has had good look straight from the roost but he is managing to get real tight before light and they are coming to him. I did hear one gobble 3 times this afternoon so I think in the next few days it will get some better. I stalked right in the middle of 11 hens this afternoon an could not see a gobbler. Very weird season. I have seen several lone hens that I believe are already nesting. I ran 2 cameras from the first of March over clover plots. I had pics of lots of turkeys all day long until 3 days before juvenile hunt. From then til now majority of turkey pics are in the afternoons. So my theory is peak breeding started here 3 days before juvi hunt and then the hens will go feed in the afternoons and sometimes have gobblers with them and sometimes not. All the gobblers we have killed have not eaten anything. And I mean not a bite of anything in their craw so they are breeding all day. So I think breeding been going on for awhile and that makes hunting tough. Hopefully by the week end gobbling will pick up. That's my .02 cents worth. Not worth much lol.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="muddyboots, post: 4212588, member: 1679"] I get chastised for saying this but in our part of the world on my lease we missed the best hunting. I've hunted the same piece of ground for 25 years. Our best hunting and gobbling happens before the dogwoods bloom. I looked back in my journal and they bloomed last yr on April 14 on our lease and this year they bloomed the Friday before the reg season opened. Since the season I have killed or had a hand in killing 5 longbeards. None of them made a peep. They fly down and strut with hens til they go back and roost so no need to gobble. Our pines got thinned this year and we can see a 300 to 400 yards. The ones we have killed we find a good vantage point and literally start glassing like we were hunting out west or something. If i can spot a gobbler that is alone he will come but this is the weird part. Since I can see them I can tell how they react. I've used every call in my vest and the only one that makes them come looking is a box call. They won't even quit walking when I use a mouth call or any kind of pot call. Grab the box and they turn and come looking. One other lease member has had good look straight from the roost but he is managing to get real tight before light and they are coming to him. I did hear one gobble 3 times this afternoon so I think in the next few days it will get some better. I stalked right in the middle of 11 hens this afternoon an could not see a gobbler. Very weird season. I have seen several lone hens that I believe are already nesting. I ran 2 cameras from the first of March over clover plots. I had pics of lots of turkeys all day long until 3 days before juvenile hunt. From then til now majority of turkey pics are in the afternoons. So my theory is peak breeding started here 3 days before juvi hunt and then the hens will go feed in the afternoons and sometimes have gobblers with them and sometimes not. All the gobblers we have killed have not eaten anything. And I mean not a bite of anything in their craw so they are breeding all day. So I think breeding been going on for awhile and that makes hunting tough. Hopefully by the week end gobbling will pick up. That's my .02 cents worth. Not worth much lol. [/QUOTE]
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