Primetime?

[AT Hiker]

I had been seeing gobblers with hens all over Southern middle TN about 10 days ago. I haven't seen many turkeys at all for the past week. The property behind my house is owned by some absentee land owners that are very anti-hunting and all the turkeys that hang out on it have disappeared within the past week. It did get poached pretty hard this year by people coming in off some railroad tracks. But, I thought I'd still see some nesting hens feeding in the afternoons.

Sounds like you need to brush up on your outlaw status…just sayin.

 

[Kyboy]

They are cleaning up acorns from the fall where I am. So they aren't following some of their "normal" patterns from years where the acorn crop wasn't so big. And they are roosting closer to the oaks where the food is. I can imagine it would confuse a hunter who is expecting them to act the same year after year,

This right here! With last year being a great mast crop year I have been finding majority of my turkeys on the hardwoods. They are just now starting to hit the fields and cleared areas with the increase numbers of insects.