worst turkey season ever!! has been the least fun turkey season I've ever had

Have they just not gobbled for you, or do you not have as many as normal? You usually work them over

i've only seen the trigger pulled 11 times this season which isn't good by my standards.

not vocal at all, i've only seen the trigger pulled 11 times this season which isn't good by my standards.I have yet to work a turkey that just wants to gobble and act a fool. if I find one gobbling he'll only gobble 2-5 times all morning, there were times last season that I heard more gobbling in one morning than I've heard this entire season. Just not near as fun when youre having to hunt in silence

Yeah, must be terrible...come on down and hunt where I do and go 2 weeks without gobbles due to the places just not having many birds on multiple places...Just not near as fun when you aren't blessed with incredible property where watching 11 birds die is "the worst season ever"...No, I am not jealous at all nor really care...just don't like to hear the complaining about "struggling" with 11 dead birds while a bunch of others haven't heard or seen 11 birds all season...take a step back to just consider your blessings and just be thankful for getting to even see one bird die, much more 11...just a word of advice

if you put as much time and effort and driving into it as I do and only miss 10 days of the season, you would expect more also. I hunt 4-6 counties and my interactions with birds this year has been terrible compared the past years. I guess my response was alittle misleading.....out of the 11 trigger pulls, I've witnessed 6 misses. You can shake your head at me for not being satisfied if you want, but I expect more and intend on seeing 10+ die every season on top of my limit without having to travel to other states just the way I am

I hunt that many counties as well as have hunted most of everyday this year driving all over, so I definitely feel you there...I am all for having those expectations, but I am just saying maybe keep them to yourself and realize how blessed you are to even see that many here in the state. Honestly, we are so blessed to be alive and well to be able to hunt these frustrating critters much less kill one. I wish you the best with number 12! kill em up!

if you put as much time and effort and driving into it as I do and only miss 10 days of the season, you would expect more also.

worst turkey season ever!! has been the least fun turkey season I've ever had

I first started reading aldeer in 2003, and one of the few constants from this board is that every year there have been posters who declared that particular year to be the worst ever, and every year some have said it was the best ever. How turkey season is perceived is very much site specific. I have no idea why turkeys gobble better in particular areas one year than the next, but I know that they do. The unpredictable nature of turkey hunting is one of the reasons I enjoy it so much.

I remember that I killed a limit in 2003 and posted about it on here. We didn't have nearly as many members on this board back then, and there weren't many limits posted. I don't remember his handle, but I remember that one guy posted that the Good Ole Days of turkey hunting in AL were long gone, and that it would be very rare to hear of a limit from now on. He said that someone like me might occasionally get lucky and kill a limit, but it would hardly ever happen again. I guess I remember that because I wondered how he knew that my limit was just luck, especially since he didn't know me and knew nothing about me. Anyway, his prediction turned out to be really bad and AL has had some great overall turkey seasons since then.

But there is always an element of luck involved in killing a turkey, and every time I kill one I wonder if he will be my last. If your season was bad this year, take hope that the next one will be the best ever. But also realize it might be the worst - some season has to be your worst one, and it might be ahead of you. I try to always assume the worst when it comes to turkey hunting, and then I can feel extra blessed if it's successful.

And who was the guy who said a couple of weeks back that he was gonna limit out the coming weekend? Did he do it? I never read an update, but I thought that was a good way to get a jinx on you.

I seriously doubt that I will ever kill another one.

Preacher, you can kill turkeys with the best of them but your wisdom puts you at the top of the list. I’d love to buy you lunch one day, talk turkey and just generally pick your brain.

I almost called him today to see about removing a turkey jinx but I figured I may have waited to late in the season for it to be worth it...

Preacher, you can kill turkeys with the best of them but your wisdom puts you at the top of the list. I’d love to buy you lunch one day, talk turkey and just generally pick your brain.