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RE: What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

Turkenator — Sun, 21 Feb 2010 15:20:23 GMT

Welcome to Woodhaven!

I would say for me it would be half and half... half before 9 a.m. and half after 9 a.m.

However... some of my most favorite hunts have happened late-morning/mid-day... between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m. In my home state we can only hunt 'til 12 until the last 2 weeks of the season in which we can hunt all day.

RE: What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

turkeyslayer_85 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 20:46:30 GMT

If one of those ol' weary toms puts the slip on me in the morning and I know where he's gonna roost you can bet that I'll be there waiting on him.But like everybody else the majority of my kills are done before 10a.m.

RE: What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

Roostem33 — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 16:22:18 GMT

I've only been turkey hunting for 5 years and all my kills but 1 have come before 10:00 am the other was at 4:30 pm. so 9 out of 10 were early morning kills.

RE: What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

jyoung — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:19:12 GMT

I do most of my hunting in Mississippi. The first part of the season, you need to be in the woods in the morning and evening. After about 9:30 or 10:00AM the birds are “henned up.” Then between 1:00 and 2:00PM you need to be back in the woods and plan to stay ‘til dark. As the season progresses, the hunt or hunts can turn into an all day affair. It truly is a sickness! CAN"T WAIT!!

RE: What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

Mike Pentecost — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 09:11:05 GMT

Bobby

First of all WELCOME to our site! Glad to have you here!

I hunt public land and kill turkeys at all different times when I am in my "home" range. Sometimes it happens "text-book" and is done early and sometimes I get on a gobbler later in the morning and make it happen. Mostly, though, I would say I kill turkeys 7:30am to 9am, you know the hunt where you get on him early at daylight, but have to stay with him a while and battle with the hens. Typical for me!

Mike

RE: What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

TTBenelli — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:36:45 GMT

Greetings boparks! Welcome to the forum.

In years past in Ohio, you can only hunt until noon; however, this upcoming season hunters will be able to hunt all day during the second two weeks of the season. The first two weeks will be the same until noon. I'm really looking forward to taking advantage of the all day hunting the 2nd half of the season.
With the noon quitting time, you have to really make the most of your time in the woods. I would say 95% of my harvests happened from 6:30 am to 10:00 am. I can't think of that many hunts after those time frames that ended in success.

Tim

What time of day are you killing most of your birds?

boparks — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 10:32:05 GMT

I'm curious both about how you do with birds on the roost and what time of day you're killing most of your birds.

Out west I do pretty well with birds off the roost but in Georgia thay pee in my corn flakes alot.

I'd estimate I've killed 20% of birds here off the roost and 70% are killed later in the morning after 9:00- 9:30. with 10% in the afternoon.

Now if I called like some of the Woodhaven guys here I'm sure I'd do much better but simply put, I don't.

Just wondered about everyone else?