Looking forward to getting my first turkey. I have owned my hunting property for 10 years now. The turkeys are much like my pecans.....I planted the trees nearly 40 years ago....see lots of pecans every year but the squirrels get them ALL....yet to get a single pecan.. Back to turkeys.....I see them on my trail cameras in good numbers until the season opens and I'm actually there. I have a Browning Maxus that takes a 3 1/2 shell and set of chokes.....seems ideal, but I need the turkeys to cooperate.
Move off to a different breeding area for a couple months. Pretty common for Rios, not sure if the other subspecies do the same or not.
Any clue as to what terrain is considered their breeding area ? My place is heavily wooded/ creek bottom land....have seen them roost a couple of times on my place but generally seems like they are passing thru....but not consistently.
I’m not all that old, and I remember those days. My family quail hunted south of Jet in the 70’s and early 80’s, and it was an event to see a deer. I don’t remember ever seeing a turkey back then.
When my dad grew up in central Kansas, if someone saw a deer it made the paper.
I'm not sure what makes them do that or why they travel to the area that they do. The place I hunt north of me they are on my on my place from about the end of Feb through May, and I'll never see them again until the Feb. May thru January they spend all their time 2 miles to the southeast, and it looks nearly identical to the place I hunt lol.
This group of toms are on the move. The camera locations are 600 yards apart, and the pictures were 51 minutes apart.
Our last lease we had turkeys move in in Oct just in time for fall season, and they would leave in early Feb. They were absolutely nowhere to be found in the spring. Come October, here they are again.
Somewhere in my dispute with dev I lost classified privileges. So- if any of yall have a mossberg 510 mini 410ga you’d like to sell, I’d be very pleased to hear about it.
