2024 Spring Turkey Hunting Thread

[Brickman301]

May 4th!? Pa is so bass-ackwards. Glad I don't live there. Low spots are great turkey holders when the winds are howling.

Yes, they are. The game laws are so different from Maryland's. Well, my fingers are crossed that it is windy May 4th. Lol

 

[BigCountry14]

Actually heard a few this morning. Loudest they've been so far.

 

[BigCountry14]

May 4th!? Pa is so bass-ackwards. Glad I don't live there. Low spots are great turkey holders when the winds are howling.

It's actually not that out of line with where it should be. I wouldn't be surprised if MD moves back at some point down the road. Several states are pushing their dates back to allow more breeding to occur.

 

[outrider58]

It's actually not that out of line with where it should be. I wouldn't be surprised if MD moves back at some point down the road. Several states are pushing their dates back to allow more breeding to occur.

The "experts" have always said the majority of breeding has already occurred prior to Md's opening season.

 

[BigCountry14]

The "experts" have always said the majority of breeding has already occurred prior to Md's opening season.

I believe MDs determination was they felt that by April 18 about 50% of hens should be sitting on nests. I think their study is going to show them something much different. Anecdotally, I see different around my parts, but thats just a small area.

 

[remrug]

I think a late season can be detrimental to survival of chicks. About 5 yrs ago, I was hunting on the last day of the Md season. On my way out of the woods , I came across a hen and 4 chicks. They were so small, that I think they had just hatched that morning. She yapped at me non stop for 10 mins as she took her brood down the hill. I guarantee she had every predator around on high alert.

 

[BigCountry14]

Walked outside last night to move a horse between paddocks. Nasty, misting, almost dark. Thought I heard a gobble, so I let out an owl hoot and multiple birds fired up in the creek bottom on the farm next door. Its funny, some of the most intense gobbling I've heard in recent years has been in atrocious conditions. Last spring we had a morning where they were sounding off in a snow squall.

 

[Brickman301]

All I know is that the gobblers are getting hot.
I’ve got a bunch of pictures on my trail cams, of multiple gobblers in full strut.

 

[Doco Overboard]

Walked outside last night to move a horse between paddocks. Nasty, misting, almost dark. Thought I heard a gobble, so I let out an owl hoot and multiple birds fired up in the creek bottom on the farm next door. Its funny, some of the most intense gobbling I've heard in recent years has been in atrocious conditions. Last spring we had a morning where they were sounding off in a snow squall.

That what will keep them quite the next morning.
Thunderstorms will the same thing and can make them gobble all night.

 

[44 Bulldog]

I heard a Tom Sunday morning 3-31 and this showed up on my SPYPOINT camera not long after.

 

[44 Bulldog]

All I know is that the gobblers are getting hot.
I’ve got a bunch of pictures on my trail cams, of multiple gobblers in full strut. View attachment 463576

That's a beautiful bird, looks around 20 to 25lbs

 

[gtodave]

My turkeys were bumpin' uglies a few weeks ago and my tom is still gobbling a lot, but no eggs yet from the hens. They've always started laying before April. Now, I do have one hen that is probably done laying, but the other one is still young and should have started by now.

Two houses up has turkeys now too and I hear their bird a lot recently.

 

[remrug]

A friend in Garrett Co called saying distant thunder has the Toms sounding off this afternoon

 

[44man]

I just left the farm and saw two big long beards both chasing about 20 hens

They’ve been bunched up for about two weeks like that

 

[Brickman301]

That's a beautiful bird, looks around 20 to 25lbs

Yes he is. Hoping I can call him when the season starts!

 

[FakeID]

I saw 2 turkeys along side the road in glen burnie last summer and heard from a friend that he's seen a few in severna park this past week. Maybe they are moving to the suburbs to relax during the spring season?

 

[Doco Overboard]

Seems like there may be some credence to what the experts opined.

 

[outrider58]

Seems like there may be some credence to what the experts opined.

...and again, we ain't killing hens(like they do in the winter and fall seasons[which I don't hunt])

 

[Doco Overboard]

...and again, we ain't killing hens(like they do in the winter and fall seasons[which I don't hunt])

I'm with the one of the experts now, he's telling me all about it.

 

[Rondeezy]

I don’t know but Maryland, but I’m visiting some friends for my bday weekend in Ottawa and boy… These birds are huge and just walking around on the streets like normal people .


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