Almost Turkey Season

[LRTX1]

We start the 19th of March around here. Any turkey hunters on board here?

[3waycross]

We start the 19th of March around here. Any turkey hunters on board here?

You betcha..... our turkeys won't even thaw out for another month.

[TexasBred]

I don't hunt the things but have a field full behind the house. Thirty four this morning cleaning up around the calf creep feeder. They never look up when I go out. Guess they know I'm no threat.

[LRTX1]

I don't hunt the things but have a field full behind the house. Thirty four this morning cleaning up around the calf creep feeder. They never look up when I go out. Guess they know I'm no threat.

You ought to start selling them. I got a friend that runs a guide service, I get $300 a bird, or any time a shot is fired. This might be the first year I don't hunt, that kind of money is hard for me to pass up.

[highgrit]

We start 1 week later than you. Thats what I see looking out my front window most mornings around 8:00. My feeders go off at 7:15. Been hearing them gobble while am checking on my cows first thing in morning.

[LRTX1]

We start 1 week later than you. Thats what I see looking out my front window most mornings around 8:00. My feeders go off at 7:15. Been hearing them gobble while am checking on my cows first thing in morning.

Thats good stuff right there! Our hens are already laying. Been seeing them seperated off around noon for about a week or so. This will be one of those seasons when it's almost over by the time it opens.

[bear]

Turkeys around here are not that tame. We don't get that close very easy.
Bear

[Jogeephus]

I've been seeing a lot of them lately. I'm sure they will bust up shortly and get scarce.

[sim.-ang.king]

are's april 4 - May 4, going to be lots of fun hope to have the field ground worked so they will be doing lots of digging out in the field during the season.

[hooknline]

I've been hearing gobbles for 3 weeks here. Too early in the year. Means they'll all be henned up and is going to make it a tuff year to hunt them.last time this happened we had a bunch of silent toms that would sneak in on you and you better hope you saw them before they saw you.

[3waycross]

I've been hearing gobbles for 3 weeks here. Too early in the year. Means they'll all be henned up and is going to make it a tuff year to hunt them.last time this happened we had a bunch of silent toms that would sneak in on you and you better hope you saw them before they saw you.

I don't disagree about them being henned up, however after those hens go to nest those ole boys will sure enuf be out there looking for love in all the wrong places..No?

[hooknline]

Usually yes. Last few years it seems there have been too many hens and not enough toms. they don't get the chance to go looking.its like they hen up, move on to the next group, hen up again. At least here.

[LRTX1]

Usually yes. Last few years it seems there have been too many hens and not enough toms. they don't get the chance to go looking.its like they hen up, move on to the next group, hen up again. At least here.

Just about what I have seen too over the last few years.

[3waycross]

Usually yes. Last few years it seems there have been too many hens and not enough toms. they don't get the chance to go looking.its like they hen up, move on to the next group, hen up again. At least here.

Just about what I have seen too over the last few years.

Sounds like a "management" issue to me!

[LRTX1]

Usually yes. Last few years it seems there have been too many hens and not enough toms. they don't get the chance to go looking.its like they hen up, move on to the next group, hen up again. At least here.

Just about what I have seen too over the last few years.

Sounds like a "management" issue to me!

It is. Been a long time since one could legally harvest a hen down here. They were the best eatin.