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What time of day do you kill the most turkeys?

Either first 30 or b/t 10-2 or later. I have only got a handful in between 8-10am. Surprisingly a few right around high noon.
 
philsanchez76 said:
Good call! I think I will focus on this time frame this year. On public land that early morning time frame I am always fighting other hunters for spots and everybody is trying to out call the next guy. I think this is the ticket.
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I've heard more gobbles on public land after 10am, cleaning up their Gatorade's and biscuit wrappers, I have never killed a turkey but last year I saw and heard the most after the early bird hunters have left.
 
Andy S. said:
When I was younger and could hear like no other, it "seemed" I killed more right after fly down, just in the first hour or so. I also killed more throughout the day, some late afternoon, as I did not have a family or other competing interests for my time. I suspect I was more aggressive and more careless as well, which resulted in me bumping them or killing them right off the bat. I had more birds to hunt back then as well, so if I bumped one, I could usually hear another gobbling off in the distance to go after. Now that I am older, and cannot hear as good in my left ear (closest to the gun barrel), with fewer birds to pursue, I'm more cautious and conservative than years ago. I definitely kill as many, or more mid to late morning, as I do in the first hour. Many times after they have left their hens, separated from the flock, or just settled down enough to call them to the gun. 99% woods setting for my hunting.
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Dang you're falling apart...
I agree, when I was a younger hunter I was definitely more aggressive on roosted birds, getting in as close as I could to try and kill them off the roost... There were definitely more birds back then to go after if I buggered it up but as I get older I am definitely more cautious because I don't want to take a chance on bumping the bird and having to go find another one so I work them from further out and fail at that often...
I kill about 50/50 now sunup - 09:00 and 09:00-13:00, rarely in the afternoon mostly because I rarely hunt afternoons anymore... when I do decide to hunt the afternoon I do love the quiet and calm of a late afternoon hunt.
 
I have killed several at fly down but I would say most would be from 8 to 9:30. I don't hunt many afternoons. I am usually fishing by then. Every year I struggle between turkey hunting and spring fishing. Fishing used to always get the nod but anymore it's usually hunting in the morning and fishing in the afternoon.
 
TN Larry said:
Every year I struggle between turkey hunting and spring fishing.
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At present, kinda thinking, if I live long enough, there may come a time when I can still fish, but won't be able turkey hunt, or at least not turkey hunt the way I would want to turkey hunt.

So for now, turkey hunting is still usually winning out over fishing.
 

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