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what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
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04/06/15 12:56 PM
04/06/15 12:56 PM
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GomerPyle
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I'm not talking about a light shower but thunder, lighting, wind, rain....
Do they go back to their roost, roost wherever they are when the storm kicks up, or just stay on the ground and go about their business like nothing is happening?
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/06/15 01:14 PM
04/06/15 01:14 PM
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t123winters
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Heck if I know,I am usually at the house in those conditions!
I would rather be turkey hunting
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: t123winters]
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04/06/15 01:16 PM
04/06/15 01:16 PM
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GomerPyle
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Heck if I know,I am usually at the house in those conditions! I went to the house when the weather kicked up today, just because I thought I was wasting my time if I stayed. But if I thought I could kill a turkey in the middle of a bad thunderstorm I wouldn't think twice about it
There are 3 certainties in an uncertain world:
1. All Politicians Are Liars 2. All Gun Laws Are an Infringement 3. Taxation Is Theft
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/06/15 01:21 PM
04/06/15 01:21 PM
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Posts: 14,578 Tuscaloosa Co.
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I killed a turkey in a thunderstorm with them gobbling and strutting all the way to me. It rain so hard at one point that at 50 yards I could barely hear the bird gobble. I had to turn my gun sideways before I shot to pour the water off the vent rib of the barrel. I don't hunt in that stuff anymore, though.
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/06/15 01:21 PM
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Haybale
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I got caught up in one that popped up quick a few years back. Some of the hardest gobbling I've heard. Got soaked and didn't kill him (did the next day) but it was awesome hearing all them birds gobblin at thunder.
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/06/15 01:49 PM
04/06/15 01:49 PM
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Surefire1911
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Last year I got set up in the pouring down raing before daylight bc I had a few roosted the evening before. Every period that it slacked off the birds would gobble. They didn't fly down until rain stopped but when they did one gobbler ran right in front of me. I yelped and he stoped for a second,I shot and missed. After sitting in the flooding rain for 3 hours, frustrated dosnt begin to describe how felt after I missed .
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: Surefire1911]
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04/06/15 02:34 PM
04/06/15 02:34 PM
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Posts: 25,680 Locust Fork, Alabama
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They do what turkeys do.... They walk around eating, pooping, and trying to breed any hen that will give it up.
"Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters."
-- Archibald Rutledge
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/06/15 02:37 PM
04/06/15 02:37 PM
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hunterturf
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I tried the get out of the truck with 5 min of rain left to come ( which never ever works out to be only 5 min.....) this afternoon. It was raining as hard as it possibly could as I rounded the corner to the field and a hen was standing right in the middle of the field with her head down thankfully and I stepped out of the road and stood there watching her acting like it was 70 and sun shinning. She just wandered around eating and eventually worked out of the field off down in a big hollow.
Give me bout 15 more minutes, I was dreamin about beavers.......... Si Robertson
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/06/15 02:50 PM
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Some of the best gobbling I have ever heard was before a thunder storm During it, they get wet
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/07/15 05:00 AM
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Clem
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As long as it's not lightning I'll try to be out in it because they will be, too, and on or near a pasture or opening where they can dry out, sun, fluff feathers, etc.
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/07/15 05:03 AM
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They act like turkeys and gobble like hell at thunder. Nothing changes, except that you'll get soaked. I killed a stud during the huge t'storm/tornado that came through a few years back...
"No, I'm not a good shot, but I shoot often." - Teddy Roosevelt
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
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04/07/15 05:05 AM
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BamaGuitarDude
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They act like turkeys and gobble like hell at thunder. Nothing changes, except that you'll get soaked. yep
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Re: what do turkeys do during a thunderstorm?
[Re: GomerPyle]
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04/07/15 08:56 AM
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Avengedsevenfold
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Freaking gobble is what they do
Carrying a gun isn't comfortable; but at times it is comforting
"Cause the cause for the pause you think you see is really concentration on the steel” NonPoint
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