Morning Hunt vs Afternoon Hunt

[VolHunter22]

Which do you find the most successful? Had 3 days to hunt back home and hunted 3 mornings and 2 afternoons. During the mornings we heard plenty of gobbling, but the opportunity for a shot never presented itself as the gobblers moved off with hens. One afternoon I called in two birds and my brother-in-law saw them first and missed. The next afternoon I called in two birds and scored a nice bird.

So that leads me to ask, when have y'all had the most success? Morning or afternoon?

 

[Tennessee Lead]

Morning's for me simply because I really don't hunt in the evenings. Normally have something to do on weekends and don't have time after work.


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[dogman1702]

Afternoons by far

 

[muddyboots]

Mornings here. Very tough in the afternoons here as our lease is timber co land I can see ag land with the ability to spot them would make evenings a lot better.

 

[Gravey]

I like to hear the woods come alive in the mornings but will go in the afternoon when given the chance and especially later in the year. Just about everyday I've been home and outside around 5:00 there's been one gobbling across the road on some property behind those houses. I used to have permission to hunt it but it sold and haven't talked to the new owners. Was told he hunted but I still need to go ask.

 

[PickettSFHunter]

I hunted evenings for years but it was so rare to even hear a gobble of a evening on the places I hunt that I've pretty much quit. Most people I know here decoy or stalk of a evening and I'm not into that so....


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[dogman1702]

Went after a turkey yesterday that I am sure has been hunted every morning since the opener. Waited till 3:00 to go in there. Dropped off the main ridge that everyone hunts, to a bench down off the backside. I've got a good kill spot at one end of the bench. Let it get quiet and ran a couple of soft, popping clucks. 15 minutes pass and he gobbles 250 yards out, right where I thought he would be, at the far end of bench. Few more soft, popping clucks, and I went to scratching leaves. An hour and forty five minutes later, I killed 'em at 34 steps. He would gobble every 15 minutes as he slowly closed the distance. A very well educated 2 year old gobbler. Afternoons can be extremely deadly on heavily pressured gobblers. I'm running out of tags quick

X2.

 

[catman529]

My work has changed so that I hunt very few mornings, I'll get out there around 10 am and hunt until 2 or sometimes dark, and some afternoons I don't get out till at least 4 pm.

I really miss hearing em fire up on the roost. And I wish they would be more vocal during mid day, like they were last year. I did hear a few fire up yesterday evening within the last hour of sunlight.


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[Roost 1]

Catman, as young as you are you should be able to work
All night and hunt all day.... I worked 3rd shift when I was your age many days I left work at 7:30 hunted all day. We would do this almost the whole season.... I couldn't do it now for nothing...

 

[muddyboots]

One thing I have noticed on my lease when i started leaving them alone in the evenings my success rate went up a lot in the mornings.

 

[catman529]

Catman, as young as you are you should be able to work
All night and hunt all day.... I worked 3rd shift when I was your age many days I left work at 7:30 hunted all day. We would do this almost the whole season.... I couldn't do it now for nothing...

I would like to work a night shift but haven't got full time yet, one job is 4 am to 830 and the other is 5-10 pm or sometimes all day on weekends. I can hunt half days and almost full days, but I miss my favorite part of the hunt, hearing em wake up on the roost.


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[PalsPal]

Turkey hunting, in it's purest form, is a morning-only affair.

Most states, when they enacted seasons, required that hunting stop at noon or 1:00. Sadly, they succumbed to pressure and caved in and allowed all day hunting.

Not only is the risk greater for disturbing laying/nesting hens, but hunting lone gobblers in the afternoon, or heaven forbid, catching them coming to their roost tree is just too easy. It isn't far behind hunting from a blind with dekes in my book. No one who respects these birds would stoop to hunting them at this vulnerable time.

Do yourselves a favor, and learn to hunt them in the mornings when they have their hens. Then, when you have pulled one away from his ladies, you know you've done something, and can call yourself a REAL turkey hunter and have pride that you have beaten him fair and square in the game as it was intended to be played.

How's that for some BS ?

It's mostly mornings for me, but I do get in a few evening hunts. And, yes, they are much more killable in the evenings, but it usually isn't as fun.

 

[catman529]

Turkey hunting, in it's purest form, is a morning-only affair.

Most states, when they enacted seasons, required that hunting stop at noon or 1:00. Sadly, they succumbed to pressure and caved in and allowed all day hunting.

Not only is the risk greater for disturbing laying/nesting hens, but hunting lone gobblers in the afternoon, or heaven forbid, catching them coming to their roost tree is just too easy. It isn't far behind hunting from a blind with dekes in my book. No one who respects these birds would stoop to hunting them at this vulnerable time.

Do yourselves a favor, and learn to hunt them in the mornings when they have their hens. Then, when you have pulled one away from his ladies, you know you've done something, and can call yourself a REAL turkey hunter and have pride that you have beaten him fair and square in the game as it was intended to be played.

How's that for some BS ?

It's mostly mornings for me, but I do get in a few evening hunts. And, yes, they are much more killable in the evenings, but it usually isn't as fun.

evenings are hit or miss, but I first heard a turkey drumming 2 years ago when I called in a gobbler to 25 yards right before sunset. He was all puffed up and lookin for love. This year I almost got a henned up gobbler right before sunset, but he took a different route than the hens had so he never gave me a shot.


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