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PSEshooter16

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I hunt on my uncles land where I've always taken birds and he was seeing a flock of 50 including 2 albinos every day around 3 weeks ago. Now he isnt seeing anything and all I've seen is a couple hens traveling solo and a jake. I've not been able to hunt the morning yet just around 1 to sunset and no gobbles and no luck calling anything in. Think I'll have more luck at sunrise?and is the flock splitting up due to mating or why do they do this, especially as soon as season starts, ugh!
 
People say they are in the woods. Not sure though, see if you can find some on the roost before sunrise.
 
PSE i know what you are talking about...i have a video from 3 weeks ago with about 80 birds in it and easily 20 toms and the past week i have seen or heard no more then 4...where they went i have no idea!!
 
Your neighbors or someone close probally started baiting....thats what useally what happens around here......They will shift their pattern toward the "yellow acorns"and they will stay their until its gone...but by then season will be over.....i have seen it happen countless times on our farms......just to find out after season the neighbors were bating......but luckly they quit turkey hunting and the birds mysteriouly stated acting normal again......
 
It ws my understanding that turkey's only gather into large flocks in the winter. When spring arrives they start to break up into smaller groups.
 
Devin2009 said:
Your neighbors or someone close probally started baiting....thats what useally what happens around here......They will shift their pattern toward the "yellow acorns"and they will stay their until its gone...but by then season will be over.....i have seen it happen countless times on our farms......just to find out after season the neighbors were bating......but luckly they quit turkey hunting and the birds mysteriouly stated acting normal again......
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i think you are exactly right except its not a hunter feeding them. the guy on adjoining property lives down the ridge and likes "his" turkeys so he feeds them all the time. i had him ride a four wheeler up to the property line and sit there staring at me one year. he's probably got them traned like a dog by now cause every time i've seen a bird its going right toward his land and out of sight down the hill at around the same time every day.
 
Theirs your answer...they can be tamed down real easy...they are like chickens...shake a bucket of feed and throw it out and they will come running.....i see it all the time....luckly no one close to where i hunt can afford or even take the time to feed them.....
 

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