Flock breakup yesterday

[poorhunter]

The flock in my holler must've broke up yesterday as they are gobbling in from all over instead of the same place (over the corn lease). Heard six different birds, only two together, none in my property which is normal this early. Two of my daughters are very anxious to get out and hunt this year, one is only 7 so she can't shoot a shotgun but she'll be fun to hunt with!

 

[Gravey]

The flock in my holler must've broke up yesterday as they are gobbling in from all over instead of the same place (over the corn lease). Heard six different birds, only two together, none in my property which is normal this early. Two of my daughters are very anxious to get out and hunt this year, one is only 7 so she can't shoot a shotgun but she'll be fun to hunt with!

Dont let that stop her if she wants to. My son killed his first deer at 7 and turkey at 8. He had a Mossberg bantam 20ga and I let him shoot it with 2 3/4" shells but I had it patterned with 3" and loaded it that way to hunt. When he squeezed the trigger on that bird he felt nothing and not sure he knows now that I did that and he's 21.

 

[30-06 type of guy]

The flock in my holler must've broke up yesterday as they are gobbling in from all over instead of the same place (over the corn lease). Heard six different birds, only two together, none in my property which is normal this early. Two of my daughters are very anxious to get out and hunt this year, one is only 7 so she can't shoot a shotgun but she'll be fun to hunt with!

Get her a .410

 

[poorhunter]

Dont let that stop her if she wants to. My son killed his first deer at 7 and turkey at 8. He had a Mossberg bantam 20ga and I let him shoot it with 2 3/4" shells but I had it patterned with 3" and loaded it that way to hunt. When he squeezed the trigger on that bird he felt nothing and not sure he knows now that I did that and he's 21.

It's more that she hasn't shot a shotgun and isn't interested in shooting, she just wants to go out with daddy She's big into being outside with me even while I'm working.

 

[megalomaniac]

One of the big groups a mile away from one of my TN farms still hasn't begun to break up as of yesterday per report from one of my friends up there. That flock doesn't usually break up into individual breeding groups until first week of April normally.

 

[Harold Money jr]

The turkeys literally just moved back onto my land after being in the corn field bottoms the past few months. I have a couple strutters and some hens on camera that wasn't here before today. They are apparently on the move spreading out.

 

[Bgoodman30]

Yep starting to break up here right now. Gobblers gathering their harem. Seeing tons of strutters daily counted 22 today just taking the kids to school.

 

[Harold Money jr]

Well I was happy too soon. I came around the curve at my farm and saw a gobbler flopping out in my pasture. I then noticed a car with a man hastily getting back in. They sped by me and I was able to get their tag number. I called TWRA dispatch and gave them all of the info. I'm not expecting much. It was a 2yr old and very heavy, its crop was so full of clover and weeds that it was tight. Btw they shot it with a rifle, the pieces of crap.

 

[bowhunterfanatic]

Well I was happy too soon. I came around the curve at my farm and saw a gobbler flopping out in my pasture. I then noticed a car with a man hastily getting back in. They sped by me and I was able to get their tag number. I called TWRA dispatch and gave them all of the info. I'm not expecting much. It was a 2yr old and very heavy, its crop was so full of clover and weeds that it was tight. Btw they shot it with a rifle, the pieces of crap.

Some things I'll never understand. Sorry you had to deal with that crap.

 

[JCDEERMAN]

We have about 10 gobblers we are estimating, but only a handful of hens (maybe 10). That worries me

 

[tree_ghost]

Flocks are definitely breaking up here. Had all my toms roosted on one ridge last week. This weekend we were surrounded lol

 

[Bgoodman30]

We have about 10 gobblers we are estimating, but only a handful of hens (maybe 10). That worries me

Yep lower numbers of hens and Jakes everywhere I look. All in spite of the regulation changes everyone was screaming for....

 

[tree_ghost]

Yep lower numbers of hens and Jakes everywhere I look. All in spite of the regulation changes everyone was screaming for....

You know I just moved from an area that I believe to have one of the strongest flocks in middle tn. For the past 3-4 years the hatch in that area has been incredible! Every hen I seen for those years seemed to have at minimum 10 jakes and Jennie's with very few lost throughout the summer. This past year I saw multiple flocks of hens with NO poults to speak of!!!! No major loss of habitat, no more predators, no more hunting pressure than normal…..

 

[Bgoodman30]

You know I just moved from an area that I believe to have one of the strongest flocks in middle tn. For the past 3-4 years the hatch in that area has been incredible! Every hen I seen for those years seemed to have at minimum 10 jakes and Jennie's with very few lost throughout the summer. This past year I saw multiple flocks of hens with NO poults to speak of!!!! No major loss of habitat, no more predators, no more hunting pressure than normal…..

Yep. So many folks on here in the past yelling for change. We're destroying the resource blah blah blah.

We got big change and the results aren't there.. I saw poults last year but lots of them were late hatches and apparently few survived.. But I am reporting from my bubble. Folks can't see them yet because gobbler numbers are looking better.