Whose giving up turkey hunting?

[fairchaser]

After a tough season, I wonder whose giving up turkey hunting for other pursuits.

My last 4-5 hunts this spring, I never heard a gobble. I did manage to at least see a turkey on nearly every hunt. Generally hens.

But I managed to kill two gobblers which is a decent season for me. The more I turkey hunt, the more confident I am that if they will gobble, I have a decent chance. But, I don't care much for afternoon hunts or just sitting and waiting. I still love being in the woods this time of year. But if you don't have a good place to hunt, it can be frustrating.

I do miss my Spring crappie fishing.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

I gave up last weekend. I killed 2 in April. Then I went to Ohio to hunt for a week and got poured on for 5 out of 6 days. Came home, cleaned and dried everything, went fishing. I've fished 5 days since I've been home. No more 4 am alarms.

 

[Buzzard Breath]

Oh yea, the fishing has been fantastic. It makes me wonder if I shouldn't quit hunting in May every year.

 

[tn24]

I'm giving it up till next year.

 

[PossumSlayer]

I've completely giving up! My rookie season according to the stats I've harvested 20% of the harvest on the public lands I hunt.

 

[THE DUKE]

Put my stuff up last wknd, no where what it used to be. The good population that's left is in confined areas or private farms.

 

[megalomaniac]

Heard my last gobbles of this season yesterday morning on SD. I'm already going through withdrawals waiting for spring 2022

 

[PossumSlayer]

I learned 4 lessons this turkey season... I shared them with my brother in Colorado.... I'll probably limit out in a couple county's next year.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I'm planning on hunting tomorrow. I believe I've found one area of the country that has a lot of birds. It definitely isn't what it used to be in terms of hearing/seeing birds in most of the areas I hunt. Hearing birds equals hunter satisfaction.

 

[catman529]

I'll give up turkey hunting the day I die.

If it wasn't for work, I'd still be hunting now, up north where seasons are still open.

 

[hillbillyfab]

Not me, or at least until fall season opens up. I really look forward to season every year. It signals to my brain that cold weather is almost behind us, that it's time to chase them thunder chickens, keep an eye out for morels and slip in some fishing in between hunts. Yea, I couldn't imagine giving hunting up.

 

[PalsPal]

After a tough season, I wonder whose giving up turkey hunting for other pursuits.

My last 4-5 hunts this spring, I never heard a gobble. I did manage to at least see a turkey on nearly every hunt. Generally hens.

But I managed to kill two gobblers which is a decent season for me. The more I turkey hunt, the more confident I am that if they will gobble, I have a decent chance. But, I don't care much for afternoon hunts or just sitting and waiting. I still love being in the woods this time of year. But if you don't have a good place to hunt, it can be frustrating.

I do miss my Spring crappie fishing.

This mirrors my season.

I did not get to "play the game" enough, and this is the first year in several that the birds practically shut down the last couple of weeks in my area, which really made me glad to see it end.

I won't hunt non-gobbling turkeys and really only hunt early mornings.

However, after a job change last year, I did find some new-to-me public ground near my new employment that looks very promising to replace some of my old spots that have dried up.

 

[AT Hiker]

Throw my name in the "I only like to hunt gobbling turkeys" hat.
Deer hunting turkeys is just not my cup of tea, I don't have to kill one bad enough to hunt them that way.

 

[Gravey]

Throw my name in the "I only like to hunt gobbling turkeys" hat.
Deer hunting turkeys is just not my cup of tea, I don't have to kill one bad enough to hunt them that way.

What he said. I only got to go 3 times and they gobbled the first two times but Saturday nothing.

 

[Hymie3]

agree with Catman... never will I quit turkey hunting as long as I can get around well enough....Missed one at 15 yards Saturday...bad way to end the season, on my last hunt for the year so I am already for next season to come.

 

[philsanchez76]

It was a little demoralizing this season to get skunked for the first time. Zero kills. Since I am motivated by meat (big time into living off the land) it does make me wonder if I should spend a little more time fishing in the spring than chasing pressured public land birds. But I know myself and I will have forgotten all this and be back out after em next year. Plus this is why I put a lot of venison in the freezer every year- so I can suck at turkey hunting and still feed the fam.

 

[Madbowh]

I gave up this whole season for scuba classes and gearing up for spearing some red snapper and grouper this summer. I might give up an occasional season like this year but never for good. Even on my worst turkey seasons I've always came back the next year. I'll be back at em next year

 

[swd]

Last year was my first season hunting turkeys. Got blanked. This year I at least saw turkeys and had some gobbling. Still got blanked. If I lived where there was a spring bear season, I'd never turkey hunt again. As things stand, I'll continue to turkey hunt, but I only look forward to it as a means to be in the woods with a weapon.

The great news is that spring squirrel is here!!!

 

[woodsman04]

Never. But there's been plenty of days I wish everyone would quit but me.

 

[Rakkin6]

I gave up this whole season for scuba classes and gearing up for spearing some red snapper and grouper this summer. I might give up an occasional season like this year but never for good. Even on my worst turkey seasons I've always came back the next year. I'll be back at em next year

I think that is a good trade off. Never spear fished but when I went to Combat Diver Qualification Course in Key west towards the end when we were getting ready to graduate we would lay some lobster traps and dive back down and get them and the class would eat lobster. Good times haven't done it since.