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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5831724" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>Delayed start made for the best hunting I've experienced since prior to 2000.</p><p></p><p>Mid April was always the best hunting. In fact, when I moved to Mississippi in 1997, only had 2 weeks vacation per year, my week of turkey vacation was the 9 days mid April. I skipped opening 2 weeks because gobblers were so henned up. I did that annually until around 2006 or 7. By then, there were so many turkey hunters most of the birds were dead by mid April, and it just became so much harder to find a bird to work. Because of that, I switched my week of vacation back to opening week. Hunting was much harder, but at least I had birds alive to hunt.</p><p></p><p>This past opening week in TN was what I grew up on and was spoiled by... intense roost gobbling, and birds that just rushed in to the call. I killed one opening week, got several for friends and kids, passed up 6 or 7 more birds I called in, and intentuonally saved my 2nd tag for Memorial Day weekend, just to see how the hunting would be.</p><p></p><p>And sure enough, found the tom I hadn't been able to kill that season or the season prior, alone feeding in a food plot at 1pm on Sunday the last day of season, got him fired up, he gobbled, and he came in (although very cautiously) in and out of strut. Good bird, 1.5in spurs.</p><p></p><p>So, the later opening makes for better hunting opening weekend, and I found birds to be killable with traditional turkey hunting methods at the end of May. Plus memorial day weekend gives me a 3d weekend making it easier to come up from MS and get summer plots planted.</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tndeer.com/threads/now-its-over.436765/[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5831724, member: 2805"] Delayed start made for the best hunting I've experienced since prior to 2000. Mid April was always the best hunting. In fact, when I moved to Mississippi in 1997, only had 2 weeks vacation per year, my week of turkey vacation was the 9 days mid April. I skipped opening 2 weeks because gobblers were so henned up. I did that annually until around 2006 or 7. By then, there were so many turkey hunters most of the birds were dead by mid April, and it just became so much harder to find a bird to work. Because of that, I switched my week of vacation back to opening week. Hunting was much harder, but at least I had birds alive to hunt. This past opening week in TN was what I grew up on and was spoiled by... intense roost gobbling, and birds that just rushed in to the call. I killed one opening week, got several for friends and kids, passed up 6 or 7 more birds I called in, and intentuonally saved my 2nd tag for Memorial Day weekend, just to see how the hunting would be. And sure enough, found the tom I hadn't been able to kill that season or the season prior, alone feeding in a food plot at 1pm on Sunday the last day of season, got him fired up, he gobbled, and he came in (although very cautiously) in and out of strut. Good bird, 1.5in spurs. So, the later opening makes for better hunting opening weekend, and I found birds to be killable with traditional turkey hunting methods at the end of May. Plus memorial day weekend gives me a 3d weekend making it easier to come up from MS and get summer plots planted. [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.tndeer.com/threads/now-its-over.436765/[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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