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Post by turk2di on Jun 10, 2005 17:04:40 GMT -5
Just wondering how you felt about mother natures timming of responding gobblers in your state this season.
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Post by turk2di on Jun 10, 2005 17:07:31 GMT -5
Seems like with a late spring here in Ky, toms were just getting with hens when the season started. Normally you would like for hens to at least begin laying when your season starts. So i voted that our season began early in regards to the favorable turkey phase.
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Post by ncturkey on Jun 10, 2005 17:12:34 GMT -5
Our guys at NWRC in North Carolina are some of the best around on determining the seasons for the turkey hunting season.
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Post by THE GOB-FATHER on Jun 10, 2005 18:22:42 GMT -5
I voted too late. The birds were good and vocal about 2 weeks prior to the season and were really actin stupid if you ask me . Once the season came around they became on again, off again. I like to call it the drizzle effect. They're hot for two days and then for the next week not a single gobble. The secondary gobbling peak was only for a short window of about 6 days and then nothing for the most part for the rest of the season. Toms were gettin back with other toms about a week and a half before the season ended. When they start responding more to gobbler calls then hen yelps, you're in trouble!
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Post by icall2much on Jun 10, 2005 18:56:49 GMT -5
I think ours came in early as well! Will
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Post by tphunter on Jun 11, 2005 6:33:23 GMT -5
I voted for Late since the turkeys seemed to be done breeding by the second week of the season...Although there were henned up Toms right up to the last day of the season...In 20 years of chasing these damned things this was by far the weirdest season I've ever encountered it's also the first season in about 15 that I didn't fill a tag...Gobbling was darned near non-existent...The first week was the best week of the whole season as far as birds responding to the calls...I'm still scratchin my noggin about this past season...
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Post by THE GOB-FATHER on Jun 11, 2005 10:16:46 GMT -5
I voted for Late since the turkeys seemed to be done breeding by the second week of the season...Although there were henned up Toms right up to the last day of the season...In 20 years of chasing these damned things this was by far the weirdest season I've ever encountered it's also the first season in about 15 that I didn't fill a tag...Gobbling was darned near non-existent...The first week was the best week of the whole season as far as birds responding to the calls...I'm still scratchin my noggin about this past season... I'm right there with ya.... seemed like a hard one to figure out that's for sure!
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Post by IndianaHunter on Jun 11, 2005 17:05:16 GMT -5
For me and my buddy it was fine this year.
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Post by THE GOB-FATHER on Jun 11, 2005 17:58:01 GMT -5
Yup, I'd say so!
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Post by wvhunter129 on Jun 15, 2005 12:29:17 GMT -5
I believe our season here in WV came in to late. Two weeks before season opened I was in the woods with my 35mm Minolta 7000 AF and my son. We called in a bird within 20 feet of us and he was really wanting to find that hen. He was all strut and stayed that way while I took pictures. Two weeks later our season opened and we never heard another bird for the next 4 weeks.
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Post by trkyhntr on Jun 15, 2005 14:46:06 GMT -5
This was the worst season I ever had. Like tphunter said, they were henned up all season. BUT, on the other hand my buddy was hunting an area all season and heard gobbling every day. He called in two of them and missed them both. he he
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Post by nygobbler on Jun 15, 2005 14:58:48 GMT -5
Most difficult season I've had since turkey hunting, and I DID NOT FILL MY TAG! Seriously, most of the gobbling I did hear was in the first 8 days of the season, then I literally didn't hear so much as a cluck the rest of the season! I still had fun though just being out in the woods. Come on fall! Too darn hot for me already!
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Post by bigcountrybarnes on Jun 15, 2005 15:02:55 GMT -5
I think ours here in Mich. was good this year. The toms were real vocal, and it all seemed to work our good.
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Post by huntersbarn on Jul 10, 2005 6:56:36 GMT -5
Had to vote early....here in PA. It was the strangest season in 20 years. Toms with hens all season. I watched toms share flocks of hens...no satellite birds. We tagged out but things were diffrent and difficult.
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Post by maytom on Jul 13, 2005 20:44:48 GMT -5
I voted early. Like TPhunter, this was the first spring season that I got skunked as well!! VERY strange season to say the least, I never heard the woods so dam quiet!!
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