4/22 LFTW

Back up in these Coosa county hills. Put my son on the field a bird has been using. I’m on other side of property seeing if anything is happening over here. Quiet now at 553.

Dr. B

It’s getting harder and harder to get up with the sunrise almost an hour earlier than the start of the season. How many of y’all have killed a bird before 6am?

Heard a single gobble. My son says there is one burning it up by him but off property.

Dr. B

Nothing yet but I’m optimistic. I have a friend that lets me trespass on his place once or twice a year and I look forward to it more than any other hunt in Alabama. I’ve never been on this mountain and not got on a gobbling turkey so fingers crossed that my streak continues today and I at least get to sit down to one.

Not peep yet in Blount co!

Quiet in Jefferson county.

Zero gobbles... Lamar Co

Nothing yet

Just had 3 Jakes come in. 3in beards. Good seed for next year.

Dr. B

Well my hunt was short this morning not a peep and gota take my pup to vet for a torn acl. Then off to work Atleast I got few hours in this morning.good luck to y’all

Quiet here

I'm seeing a trend here lol. It was that way in Marion Co this weekend as well.

Had a couple talking this morning in the tree but not much since then. Season is starting to wear on me. Gonna grind it out and try to get #4 before it’s over.

Best gobbling hunt of the season. Couldn’t break the one I was setup on away from his hens. Had him at 80 yds in the woods but the girls just carried him off. Pretty morning tho

Heard more gobbling this morning than since the first few days of the season. Had one gobble in the same spot from 6-8am. Couldn't move him and couldn't get to him. Don't know which way he went, listening now trying to figure out what to do

Still nothing

find a shell station

No turkey this morning but cobbler tonight!

Finally found one by himself at about 9:30. Had him across my shoulder at 10:00. The LORD really blessed me with a perfectly timed jake brake down in the valley to make him gobble the first time or I might have walked right over him.

Quiet in Henry County this morning.

Finally got the "ice" broke this morning! Was a quick hunt in TN. Got on a roosted bird right at first crack-of-light. He was gobbling his head off and I set up about 80 yards from him. At fly-down he pitched in and hit the ground about 25 paces away. Caught a load of 6's in the face. 11.5" beard, 1 3/8 spurs. Normally would prefer to get a "show" from the bird before dropping the hammer, BUT this year has been tough for me for some reason... so, I took was was given and am thankful!

Congrats pal!

You done killed them all

LOL! Kinda what I thought. Mercy he is rough on em!!!

Heard a couple at daylight they gobbled several times. One was straight in front of us and the other to our left. I took my girlfriend along for company. The one gobbling in front was really close so I decided to give it a go. I’d heard this bird a couple of times in the same area, but he always went away from me. I’m guessing my pinpointing sound directions needs some work. One minute he sounds off out in front, the next gobble sounds far right. The other bird that was to on our left and farther away sounds off left then it seemed like he gobbled directly behind us. Funny thing was when either one would gobble I’d point in one direction and Cecilia (girlfriend) would point in a totally different direction. I get they turn their heads and the sounds seem closer or farther away depending which way their head is turned, but I don’t think a turkey can throw it’s gobble to make it seem like it’s farther left or right. Hearing birds isn’t the problem but if he gobbles several times getting a direction is an issue. Anyone ever used those ear headsets that amplify sound? If so, do they help with direction, or just to magnify sound?

Killed bird #1 off that property on the 20th. Didn’t step back on it until today

This has been the worst season for gobbling I can ever remember

thats the general consensus for just about everyone around the state on average. It’s been a weird spring, and that is despite the numbers of birds being as good as they have been in a few years in a lot of those same areas.

I just heard the first bird of the year spontaneously gobble more than once around noon today. I wasn’t hunting, but it sure made me wish I was. That’s typically commonplace from the first week of April on in the areas that I frequent.

Sitting doing an afternoon hunt. I’m on a pasture that they like to frequent but it’s dang hot. Not expecting to see much until last light. Feel like I’m deer hunting them, not my favorite way but just maybe one will fire up once the shade starts across the pasture

You are. lol

It has been a normal year for me as far as hearing gobbling. But then, I've never hunted a place that had the number of different gobblers on it that I read about some of you on here experiencing. I've always thought it was a good morning if I heard one, and hearing 3 was really good.

I got one in GA this morning, and he gobbled about 50 times. I didn't hear any at the first place I went, and located this one about 7:30. Congrats to all who were successful today.

Hey Benji, where did you kill that big gobbler yesterday? That was about the #7 wasn't it?