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Maybe it's the early green up and warm temps that has me fooled a bit, but turkeys in my area are nowhere near white-hot yet. The birds are there as typical but still seem lukewarm at best...a few half-hearted gobbles on the limb, hit the ground and hook up with hens, and then dead-quiet.

What about you folks? Are birds in your area fired up yet or still just sort of working up to it?
 
I usually notice 2 peaks; one before the season and one during the 1st couple of weeks of April. Haven't started seeing lone hens yet but it's gotta be close. Gobbling should pick back up when the gals start wandering off to lay.
 
Last few times Ive been out it has been heavy gobbling on roost then heavy gobbling on the ground for 30 mins or so. Then thats pretty much it besides a few sporadic gobbles.
 
Only got to go with my son Sunday afternoon and had one fired up about 2:15 but he had 3 hens that I saw so maybe more. He gobbled off and on for 2 1/2 hours but just wouldn't leave them. We moved several times to no avail.
 
Hadnt heard anything but gobbling on the roost till sunday morning. Heard two different birds gobbling their fool heads off for about an hour after flydown.
 
Everything was fine, then on Sat it was almost all quiet. A few gobbles but not anywhere near where they usually are.
Nothing on the game cameras either, where I used to see them all the time.

They are going to really make me work this year.
 
Been hunting in AL just across the line. Has been luke there was well except Saturday they were fired up pretty good. Sunday nothing, and I mean not a peep. I don't think they are quite there yet but couple weeks should be good.
 
Just got back from a long trip through Miss, AL, and GA. Birds were henned up as bad as I have seen them in 3 years. Very very little ground gobbling, and striking a bird over the course of a day was dang near impossible.

Birds are also still in groups, multiple gobblers with large groups of hens and jakes. I saw zero hens alone the entire time, and saw as many as 8 longbeards together with a group of hens.

Birds seemed behind normal everywhere I have been which is a ton of real estate, if they aren't a little behind then there was a bumper crop of hens everywhere, thus making hunting difficult at best.

Not saying that bodies didn't hit the floor, just much much tougher then I have seen it in several years.
 
I heard 6 different birds yesterday but they didn't gobble a dozen times...TOTAL. Saturday I eased up to a little field with binoculars and there stood a strutter all swole up with a pack of 5 or 6 hens. He'd never said word on the roost and the girls were perfectly quiet too.

This may be one of those years where I slow waaaay down during a typical morning until things catch up a bit.
 
smstone22 said:
Last few times Ive been out it has been heavy gobbling on roost then heavy gobbling on the ground for 30 mins or so. Then thats pretty much it besides a few sporadic gobbles.
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Same here in Maury Co
 

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