I have covered over 2000 acres, on 3 tracts, in the last 3 days, which would usually produce an estimated 100+ gobbles from 10-12 different birds. My result, a total of 4 gobbles from 2 different birds. It has gotten down right ridiculously slow over the last week. My guess is that they are done breeding and looking to get back into groups. This land is all located in northeast AL. Any thoughts?

they may not be done breeding but they sure havent been very vocal the last 5-8 days in the PRV

PRV?

I think they are done on our place,I think I'm done too,I might go one more time just for the hell of it.

I say they are in the lull that normally happens each year about the middle of April. Since I fully believe things have been behind at least one week maybe two this will put the lull about right now. If you have been experiencing good gobbling your birds are probably in the lull period if I had to take a guess.

I gotcha.....well that lull is going to end the season for me I guess.

Still henned up in North GA. I manage to find a 2 year old that was lonely, horny, and now dead this morning!!

Apparently they ain't. 3toe just killed another WMA bird at 10:45.

Paint rock valley

Squeaky is right. They are about 10 days behind normal schedule and henned up bad. Second week of may they will be on fire in north Bama.

My experience with Jackson county turkeys is this:
Opening day until dogwoods start blooming turkey hunting is excellent.
When the dogwoods start blooming, turkey hunting is horrible.
When dogwoods stop blooming, turkey hunting is excellent again.
I don't know if it is that way all over the state but you can prettymuch set your watch by it where I hunt. I've heard people say "they don't get right until the dogwoods start blooming" but they must know something I don't know.

Second that..... I have never had so many still henned up this late where I am at. The last two weeks for me are usually fantastic. Last week was slow so hoping they come out of it this last week.

Well hell no they ain't done!

LOL....I figured I might get a few of those! They have just absolutely shut up, for the time being anyway. Like said above, by early May, they will be back rocking it!

In all seriousness, they're not even gobbling on the roost. Is that normal?

I went three mornings before work this week. Didn't hear a single bird, I know they got to be somewhere up there tho. Turkey hunting is gonna turn me grey early I'm thinking. I'm disappointed in myself this season for not being able to make it happen, I've never killed a turkey before, but I got the want to in me. Only got a few days left, good luck fellas

I'm in the same boat. Went after them hard this year but they just didn't cooperate.

Except for the time they did. And I screwed it up...

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I'm in the same boat. Went after them hard this year but they just didn't cooperate.

Except for the time they did. And I screwed it up... [/quote]

Welcome to turkey hunting 101. The brain the size of a marble and will make ya look like a fool. At least I know they have made me look like one more than once

Had two gobbling together today, one was a jake. They left the greenfield and went to a clearcut by themselves. I wasn't sexy enough for them.

wosrt turkey hunting year Ive ever seen. NO gobbling. Ive heard 6 -10 TOTAL gobbles all year..from 3 different birds...two of which died.
Im not even SEEING any gobblers or getting ANY gobbler pics running 6 cameras and moving them around where birds have been historically. However they have clear cut alot of our land and are mining a bunch of it right now.
Last year at this time the food plots were HOT as the winter wheat had headed and they were feeding like crazy in it.

This year its only 8-9 inches tall.

if the best was yet to come after last weekend, i think we missed the best, it aint coming it came really early this year. Obviously you TN guys are still in the game but the bama birds are basically done.

I plan on going every day starting today till the season ends. Have only had one chance that I screwed up. I have a blind set up in case of rain. Tough year for me.

They ain't nowhere near done.......... I pulled up on the side of a cornfield this afternoon and watched two longbeards with 3 hens walking them down and flat wearing them out. Defiantly R rated stuff they were doing.
Eased on up the road a ways and found two more longbeards strutting with hens in another field that I can hunt....... They got greedy and made some really bad decisions.

They ain't done, just a messed up gobbling season IMO. Winter was warm, spring was variable and cold. During season, there were multiple cold fronts followed by warm ups, more than I can remember. In my experience, turkeys don't like to gobble much in changing/variable weather. Steady strings of days of 45 lows and 75 highs tend to make good gobbling conditions (which we have not had much of). They don't seem to gobble much with fronts moving through, nor the following day or 2 with windy/breezy conditions and/or cool weather and they don't gobble much with east winds, all of which we have also had a lot of.

The 5 gobblers I heard this am and the 3 I saw weren't close to being done yet.

We probably need to extend turkey season through may and open it feb 15th so everyone with birds that started early are happy and everyone with late birds iare happy but then we would complain at some point that they were not gobbling where ever we hunted.

My thought is very similar to our deer rut, we have had huge hatches the last few springs and prob have more turkeys than we have had in decades so gobs are not having to gobble as much to get their hens and there are so many hens they started early and won't finish until way late.

Struttin behind the house today.

Not close to done 5 days ago heard a dozen gobbling and had to up close just to thick to get a shot. This was on public land. Been working last 4 days will get to finish up the season Mon. And Tues.

Very nice going,congrats!!

i bet they r within 3 days of being done and so is anyone hunting in alabama

True dat