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IMO pressure or lack there of is the key. I honestly believe that unpressured turkeys this time of the year are blowing the leaves off the trees. Of course turkeys that have been hunted nearly every day of the year are more likely to keep their mouths shut or slide in quietly. You can definitely kill pressured turkeys but i'm not in to deer hunting them.
 
I saw more poults last year than in the last few combined. I also saw more on trail camera pictures and more deer hunting than in the past few years. I have saw several jakes so far this year and more hens than the last few this Spring as well. Overall, I think that we had the best hatch last year than the last several combined. I just hope to have it again this year.
 
I have not had any problem "hearing" the few turkeys that are there, even the gobbling jakes, and thus, put little stock in the "they are not talking theory". If they are there, and they have not been hunted to death, harassed, spooked, shot at, bumped, called to by every Tom, Richard and Harry, they will gobble well in to May, and some into June, sporadically. Five things typically minimize gobbling; dominant old bird in the area, abundance of hens, lack of male turkeys, hunting/human pressure, and bad weather.
 
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catman529":2e9mxh0m said:
nobody seems to mention the fact that the birds aren't talking much, I know for a fact I still have good numbers to hunt but I can't get one to work a call worth a crap. Part of it is the pressure keeping them on private and part of it is they just won't talk after fly down, even on less pressured land


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Maybe thats because everyone is searching out areas with birds and exponentially increasing the pressure?

For me, this year has been slightly above normal as far as vocalization goes. One draw hunt proved to be difficult having the birds refuse to work calls and LBL just this past weekend yielded 0 gobbles over three days of hunting, that sucked. I also only caught 6 blue gill, that sucked too.

It seems like you guys that "have the birds" are the ones talking about them being quite. I agree, that's odd. But I've hunted 3 quality places this year with strong populations and they have played the game really well. Of course pressure is kept very low on these places.




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yes the increased pressure has made them a lot tougher to hunt for sure. But even the places that don't get pressured the birds aren't acting right. Like my backyard and surrounding property for example. This is the first year I have yet to see a strutter with hens in my back field. My neighbor was seeing them good for a while and then they somewhat disappeared again.


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I've seen 5 locally and that is more than normal. I'm not around fields and such where you can see very far.


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Dang, we gonna be back up to long term average of 32000 kills next year if all these anecdotal Jake sightings are correct..... I sure hope so!

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15, 17, 21, 60..... I don't see how some of these guys get through Turkey season without killing 4 with the truck. :shock:
 
I've seen lots of jakes in east Tn. I've seen several groups of jakes and gobblers running together. We must have had an early hatch last because I've been fooled 3 different times by jakes that had a full gobble.

I have a video from Wednesday of a jake strutting and gobbling by himself. You wouldn't know it was a jake from the video.


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