Turkeys

[missed mallards]

are they gobblin in your area and where are you hunting. spent the last 3 day's in north mississippi and didn't hear but one gobble. 7:45 at night and he hit it it hard several times. went the next morning and nothing. ain't heard anything since then. tried everything i knew to get one to gobble and nothing. didn't see the first one.

was hunting public land and really didn't know the layout of the land that good but still 3 day's ain't no tellin how many miles i walked and one gobble. depresing. just wonderin how ya'lls season has been.

[jdbuckshot]

i have been hunting every day, mourning/evening, i have yet to hunt a day and not see a turkey and hear a turkey. worked 4 big birds that were hen'ed up untill 1:00 today got with in 60 yards once but i didn't shoot. they will be there in the mourning. they must have gobbled 70 times. man what a show!

[Cotten]

They gobbled early yesterday morning but quit soon after. Probably hen’ed up. Headed out now to try ‘em again.

[South Woods]

They are gobbling, i have had to change up calls a good bit more than normal to get much response when they hit the ground.

I got one this moring, 9 1/2" beard and 3/4 spurs, he probably only gobbled 10 times. A buddy of mine about a mile from me killed a pretty big bird, 11 1/2" beard and a little over 1 1/4 spurs, this morning that he said gobbled about 75 times.

[RebelYelp]

they're just gettin fired up for the most part, heard 3 birds this morning, only gobbled a total of about 10-15 times together, but that's a big change from tuesday morning, yesterday mornign was same story, hopefully by next weekend.......

[Jeff]

They aren't doing crap around me where I hunt in Hattiesburg. Between myself and my hunting buddy we have been out every morning since a week and ahalf before the season opened. We have heard three birds gobble all in the same morning. I tracked a gobbler after the rain on Wed, and go w/in 60 yds of him in a food plot. He was by himself, I made some calls and he showed absolutely no interest in me. He just fed in the plot for about 30 min and then left. I think they are way behind schedule over here near Hattiesburg, but that's just my opinion. However it makes no sense that they would be hammerin' in N. Miss and not S. Miss.
If it helps you, when I was in school in Memphis, I used to Hunt Holly Springs a ton, and the third week was when they normally really started getting going, however when you could find one gobblin this early you could usually kill him. I had a lot of luck in the early season in Holly Springs, just didn't hear a ton of gobbling.

[Cotten]

We got busted this morning. Only heard one gobbler and he was a good 15 minute walk away (in the hills). You could see pretty well and he was still in the tree but we got too close and watched as he flew the roost (opposite direction of course).

Got back to the truck and had a voice mail from my business partner giggling about having gotten his already. He said they had about 10 different gobblers around them and bagged the closest one by 6:10 AM. They set up on another one but the birds quit gobbling once it started to thunder.

[MemphisStockBroker]

Went with a rookie this morning. No gobbling...
But he did kill two. Both with 9" beards. Didnt know any better.
Guess I will have to turn him in to the boys in green...

[chopper30]

Where I have been hunting (Starkville area and north of Sardis Lake) they ain't doing CRAP for me!!!! Yeah I know, buh hu hu! I have been every morning and afternoon (with exception of this afternoon) only seen one strutting bird, and only heard gobbles 2 mornings. Neither morning was the gobbling within a mile of me and didn't gobble enough for me to close the distance. At my club north of Sardis Lake I didn't see a gobbler with a hen over the first 3 days of the season (although I must have seen around 50 hens a day)!

But I'm glad someone is having some luck! Keep up the killing, and would it hurt anyone to post up a pic??? I would like to remember what they look like!

[missed mallards]

i was hunting just south of you chop. got word that a good friend killed one this a.m. with a 9in beard. no gobblin or nothing just walked in the field he was in. holmes county i think. going to head over to starkville and hunt some family land this weekend. i hope they do something. glad to hear that ya'll are killin some. keep up the good work

[matador1]

Got on two Rope Daddies this morning but they had 13 hens with em. Followed em til 2:00 pm trying to get ahead, no luck. Only time they gobbled was when I worked the hens in close and they gobbled back to the middle of the field.

[Jeff]

okay guys can you post the general vicinity of where you all are hunting. I don't want to go there, but from looking at your locations, looks like most of you are hunting Jackson and North of there. I can't for the life of me figure out why they are doin' it up there and not down here. I am befuddled.

[Cotten]

[quote="Jeff"]okay guys can you post the general vicinity of where you all are hunting. I don't want to go there, but from looking at your locations, looks like most of you are hunting Jackson and North of there. I can't for the life of me figure out why they are doin' it up there and not down here. I am befuddled.[/quote]

Warren County this and yesterday morning.

[South Woods]

Jeff, I am in south MS, about an hour north of Hattiesburg. I have heard them gobbling for a little over two weeks. The one i killed this morning was the second bird we have gotten on my place this week. Monday I called one in for a friend of mines kid.

Neighbor down the road said he heard like 6 or 7 different birds Thursday morning. Said he heard two other birds this morning other than the one he killed. I didnt hear anyother birds than the one I killed.

I hope you can get on them.

[Wingman]

I'm am an extreme novice at this but went Wednesday and Thursday morning south of Carthage and heard narry a bird. Saw 4 hens Wednesday morning in my wheat/clover plot.

Do they sit tight when it's cold like it was mid-week?