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Beyond any question whatsoever, the best gobbling of the season is behind us for the properties I hunt in Perry, Coosa, and Tallapoosa counties. It's that way year after year. Back when we had the 3/15 opener, I always tried to be done as a shooter by the end of the first week of April because I knew it would be tough to find a gobbling turkey after that. My record of carrying others as the shooter has not been very good; mainly because most of those trips we never even heard one.
In all the years I've hunted, I can't remember ever hearing a turkey gobble in the afternoon once the temps started getting into the high 80s and 90s. On the places I've been able to hunt, it becomes strictly a morning thing to hear one once you get to that part of the season.
In the last week of April, I've seen groups of 3-8 longbeards back together with seemingly no interest in a hen. They don't gobble and won't even look in your direction when you call to them. The breeding season is over for them. Of course, there are always exceptions and I've heard a turkey gobble in every month of the year. I've heard them gobble good in May and June, so turkeys will always do whatever they want and they don't follow any rules.
Part of this might be the size of the turkey population on the places I can hunt. I've never heard the crazy numbers of turkeys gobbling the way a lot of hunters on here have mentioned. All I know is my own experience, and I am sadly confident that the best gobbling of my season is behind me. Consider yourself blessed if it isn't that way for you.
This is exactly right for the majority of the southern 1/3 of AL, whether you like it or not  Hens are not interested in gobblers unless their nest is broken. It’s green, it’s hot, and for whatever reason - gobbling decreases drastically. Of course - a boat load of adult males are dead anyway - so theirs that.
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