South Bama - when do your gobblers start up?

For anyone who hunts SW Alabama (I hunt Conecuh & Escambia counties), when do you usually start to hear gobbling? I'm over 4hrs from our lease and can't go as often as I'd like, which means typically one or two weekends during turkey season. We have members who say after mid-April is when they start going in So. Alabama. What you're experience/recommendation for this part of the state?

Had two birds gobble probably a combined 100 times opening weekend in Belleville last year.

I've hunted southwest Bama my whole life. It varies just like anywhere else. They tend to be henned up the first 2 weeks of the season but they still gobble. Every season has peaks and valleys with gobbling.

Guess they wouldn’t have any reason to lie about it

Best advice I can give you is never trust a turkey hunter.

^^ yeah, don’t listen to those guys.

exactly; don't have to gobble to die ... i'm blessed that my very 1st bird never said a damn thing & took a Mossberg 835 dirt nap right off the roost

it's fun when they gobble & act "right" but any more i like it when i "surprise" the chit out of them

Ok...i'm with you fellas.

Thanks for the input. Guess it'll be the "go when you can, as often as you can" approach. Which is perfect!!

Hell, if this weather keeps up, they’ll be gobbled out by season. So prolly shouldn’t even waste your time this year.

Had one gobble 100 times in NW Florida a few days ago.

I’ve hunted that part of the state ever. I wouldn’t miss the first 2 weekends if I were you.

Best time to turkey hunt is when you can.

Best guess is the week of April the 8th and the last week of season. just my .02

Turkey hunters would never lie!

Forgot to add, I work Conecuh Co. some, you can PM a map and written permission and I'll help with your turkeys since no one has mentioned it yet

Heard 4 yesterday morning

SHHHHHH!!!!! No you didn't. They only gobble in December and early January in our area.

4 gobbles or 4 different birds?

I hunt in Barbour. I usually hear my first gobble of the year at daybreak on March 15’th.

Then I head off to murder that mother smacker.

Four birds. Bout 10 gobbles

I live in marshall county in north alabama..i heard about 150 gobbles bout a week ago.....in boaz....nieghbor has one in a pen....that i didnt know about. Got up to piddle in the yard early..walked outside and heard that sucker just loosin his mind across the holler...............i got weak in the knees next thing i remember was ma wife wavin pankcakes in my face...she said id been there awhile...plum broke ma heart when i figured out it was a pet.....all i can say is they better not turn that sucker loose..then hes fair game