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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/23/19 09:25 PM
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Gobble4me757
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Just send me the gps coordinates and I can find out for ya! lol
2017 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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#2746457
02/23/19 09:38 PM
02/23/19 09:38 PM
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Guntersville
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Old Mossy Horns
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It’s been awhile but best weekend of turkey hunting I ever had was in Wilcox County.
I know there are variables property to property but I’d be pretty excited to be trying it if I were you.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/23/19 09:40 PM
02/23/19 09:40 PM
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AL/GA
Bamaturkeykilla
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If you're close to the river it can be very good hunting.
There are two rules for success: 1. Never tell everything you know.
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/23/19 10:37 PM
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alabama
BhamFred
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toughest turkeys in Alabama, been hunted by the best for 200 years.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/23/19 11:15 PM
02/23/19 11:15 PM
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Past Ol’ man Finley’s plac...
Southwood7
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toughest turkeys in Alabama, been hunted by the best for 200 years. You oughta know, 200 years ago the creek Indians were teaching you how to make arra heads 😀
The Spirit of God has made me; the breath of the Almighty gives me life.
Job 33:4
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 05:26 AM
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Spanish Fort
teamduckdown
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Hunted there most of my life. If the property habitat and timber makeup is right, they will be there.
Turkeys be damned.
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 08:02 AM
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Chelsea
lectrode
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Can't compare with Morgan and Jackson but not bad fo sure.
You haven't been blocked until you've been flock blocked!!!
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 09:48 AM
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Hazlehurst, MS
msubowhunter2506
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I have a new lease in wilcox county this year and curious how the hunting is there? Never hunted this county much less South Alabama. I’ve hunted Wilcox County most of my life on the same property. I’ve had the best luck turkey hunting there over the years
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 02:07 PM
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Birmingham
wew3006
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Birmingham
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If you're close to the river it can be very good hunting. Unless it is flooding; which seems to more common in the last 10 years. Ask me how I know
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 03:34 PM
02/24/19 03:34 PM
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alabama
BhamFred
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YOU CAN GO FROM 300 ACRES TO HUNT TO LESS THAN TEN IN A HURRY WHEN THE RIVER GETS UP.
I've spent most of the money I've made in my lifetime on hunting and fishing. The rest I just wasted.....
proud Cracker-Americaan
muslims are like coyotes, only good one is a dead one
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 03:58 PM
02/24/19 03:58 PM
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Spanish Fort
teamduckdown
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All the turkeys there have died. You probably missed my thread the other day with county maps. Wilcox is one the highest timber producing counties in the state. Which means no turkeys. I can tell you this, in the last 20 years as timber practices have changed to what they are now, the numbers have significantly decreased. Im not saying it is or isn't related, but it is a fact.
Turkeys be damned.
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 07:13 PM
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poorcountrypreacher
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All the turkeys there have died. You probably missed my thread the other day with county maps. Wilcox is one the highest timber producing counties in the state. Which means no turkeys. I can tell you this, in the last 20 years as timber practices have changed to what they are now, the numbers have significantly decreased. Im not saying it is or isn't related, but it is a fact. How have timber practices changed there in the past 20 years? When they built the papermill in the 60s, they started clear-cutting everything they could buy. Was not most of the county cut by 1980? I wouldn't have thought things had changed that much in the past 20 years, but the only part of the county I ever go to now is the Furman area. I'd say that the timber in that area overall is bigger now than it was 20 years ago.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 10:26 PM
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Birmingham
wew3006
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YOU CAN GO FROM 300 ACRES TO HUNT TO LESS THAN TEN IN A HURRY WHEN THE RIVER GETS UP. You are so right Troy; was checking the historical events on NOAA and there have been 10, maybe 11 this week, 70' level floods at Miller's Ferry in the last 9 years. You have to go back 20 more years to find 10 more. May be a cycle; but a problem. If the floods are after the hatch; definitely hits the broods survival
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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02/24/19 10:43 PM
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turkey247
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How have timber practices changed there in the past 20 years? When they built the papermill in the 60s, they started clear-cutting everything they could buy. Was not most of the county cut by 1980? I wouldn't have thought things had changed that much in the past 20 years, but the only part of the county I ever go to now is the Furman area. I'd say that the timber in that area overall is bigger now than it was 20 years ago.
No, preacher, it hasn’t changed. What many on here refer to as modern timber practices started in the Pine Belt a long time ago. When turkey populations boomed in the 80’s and 90’s, we were all happy. Same practices then for the most part. Turkey numbers have both increased and decreased on landscape/county levels with “modern timber harvest practices” in place. But those timber production maps I posted the other day were pretty cool to see. They could almost be passed off as turkey population maps by county.
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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#2747366
02/24/19 11:59 PM
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South Baldwin
JayHook2
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In the 70's and 80's there was 1 turkey hunter per !00 gobblers in Clarke, Marengo, Dallas....
When I started with my pawpaw, unless a bird sounded off less than a quarter from the truck, we would just drive a half mile and do it again til we heard 3-4 in one spot...and would see nobody.
Clearcutting began around 1972 by Scotch Lumber in Clarke, the other large companies followed up right after that. since then private land has held the vast majority of turkeys and had the best hunting because it had the best habitat and the least hunters,,,
And then in the late 80's Will Primos made a turkey video and everybody became a turkey hunter or thought they did...and there was 100 hunters for every gobbler.
The best turkey hunters in the world lived in those parts and some still do...Joe Champion, Blue Jones, George Alford, Clifton Philips, Joe Harrison, Jimmy McDaniel, Gene Etheredige...Wilcox and Marengo turkeys are the toughest there are!
I was told when I went to Troy State to college in 1984 by my good friend David to not call to any bird unless I wAS READY TO SHOOT...He wasn't wrong...just not the same makeup as west Alabama.
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Re: Turkey Hunting in Wilcox County?
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#2747384
02/25/19 12:55 AM
02/25/19 12:55 AM
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Guntersville
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Old Mossy Horns
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The place I had the memorable weekend had been thinned the year before. There was something about opening it up the turkeys really liked.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands:
“The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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