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Re: Question for those of you who had a bad year
[Re: crenshawco]
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04/29/16 02:58 PM
04/29/16 02:58 PM
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While we are on the topic of population and season review, I've got a question for those who struggled. If you weren't hearing or seeing any or many birds or sign, did you try new properties or continue hunting the same places?
I am fortunate to have a couple of good tracts that had above average populations this year. If I would have gone a week or two and not seen any, I would've been on the move though. There's too much public land opportunity in the state for me to keep going and wasting my limited opportunities to hunt hearing or seeing nothing.
I am just curious if this is a widespread thing up north and in other effected areas or if it is a tract to tract type of thing. Some of both I would think. I'm the same way, I see all these people going day after day and not hearing any, yet hunting the same place all season. I don't do that. But, excluding my place in Barbour county, the lack of gobbling has been widespread for me. I've hunted private land in Jefferson county, and public in clay, talladega, Calhoun, and Cherokee. Also one hunt on a private piece in st. Clair. 15-18 hunts between those places and I heard a gobble 4 mornings.
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Re: Question for those of you who had a bad year
[Re: crenshawco]
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04/29/16 05:33 PM
04/29/16 05:33 PM
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Posts: 4,689 McCalla, Al
hopper35005
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I hunted every weekend and I saw tons of tracks and dusting bowls and strut zones...my problem was when I heard them by the time I got within working range the wind would be blowing 40 mph....my lack of patience is my problem. Even though I didn't seal the deal on any ...there is not a doubt that they are there.....and we have alot of hens
Let them walk ...and grow them big
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Re: Question for those of you who had a bad year
[Re: crenshawco]
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04/30/16 03:18 AM
04/30/16 03:18 AM
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poorcountrypreacher
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I've had years when I could not hear turkeys on my farm or on 2 hunting clubs I had joined. Several times I just switched to the Coosa WMA and hunted it the rest of the season. It is tough hunting, but you can always hear turkeys there. There's not as much land as it used to be in it, but the guys that hunt it are still hearing turkeys.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Question for those of you who had a bad year
[Re: crenshawco]
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04/30/16 03:40 AM
04/30/16 03:40 AM
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outdoorobsession
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outdoorobsession
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I hunted Jackson County and Marion the early part, then Franklin and Winston the later season.
One piece in Franklin had a bird or 2 opening weekend, but after that never heard another there and I went there 7-8 times.
Opening day we had 2 gobble in winston, one was shot right afterwards though. They were roosted together, never heard a gobble there again either.
I had been hunting some great managed land and always had a lot of turkey and didnt understand how bad it was in a lot of areas.
Believe me..I do now.
I used to think the guys who werent hearing any had silent birds....well heck..you can kill them. Id tell them to just sit and wait em out.
Well..I thought that could be our problem too..so i tried it..a bunch..and waited, and waited..and waited.
The problem WASNT silent birds..just LACK of birds..even hens.
Definitely not many turkeys where I hunted this season.
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Re: Question for those of you who had a bad year
[Re: crenshawco]
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04/30/16 01:24 PM
04/30/16 01:24 PM
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Gobl4me
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My buddy and I hunted 6 1/2 days in Alabama and we killed 5 toms this year. . Last year we killed 6 toms in 9 days. Last time I hunted Alabama before that was 5 years ago- I killed a 5 Tom limit in 5 days and my buddy killed 3 toms and missed another (we hunted with bustinbeards first 2.5 day and killed 5 between the three of us). As a non-resident Alabama hunter that's hunted all over the country I can tell you the opportunities are endless for an Alabama turkey hunter. I don't think yall realize how fortunate you are
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Re: Question for those of you who had a bad year
[Re: Gobl4me]
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04/30/16 05:24 PM
04/30/16 05:24 PM
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My buddy and I hunted 6 1/2 days in Alabama and we killed 5 toms this year. . Last year we killed 6 toms in 9 days. Last time I hunted Alabama before that was 5 years ago- I killed a 5 Tom limit in 5 days and my buddy killed 3 toms and missed another (we hunted with bustinbeards first 2.5 day and killed 5 between the three of us). As a non-resident Alabama hunter that's hunted all over the country I can tell you the opportunities are endless for an Alabama turkey hunter. I don't think yall realize how fortunate you are No offense, but I don't think you realize how good the land you must be hunting is.
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