Turkey Hunting Question

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Is the breeding season for turkeys like the deer rut, couple good weeks and it fades or will they keep going strong until the end of the season?

Iam debating getting a second tag, but don't want to buy it to find out the birds aren't interested in calls.
 
As the season progresses you have to change how you hunt. Right now the jakes/toms have their choice of mates making your job harder. As we dig deeper in to the season you will notice more hens spending time on their nest, leaving the males to go looking.. This process will create "batchelor groups", now you have a group of horny boys looking for females, they tend to run seniority and fight for what is left (you). It is certainly not the same hunt as the early season but your odds of a big tom are better due to the lack of hens and increase in competition.
Get another tag and have a great hunt!
 
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Pyd said:
As the season progresses you have to change how you hunt. Right now the jakes/toms have their choice of mates making your job harder. As we dig deeper in to the season you will notice more hens spending time on their nest, leaving the males to go looking.. This process will create "batchelor groups", now you have a group of horny boys looking for females, they tend to run seniority and fight for what is left (you). It is certainly not the same hunt as the early season but your odds of a big tom are better due to the lack of hens and increase in competition.
Get another tag and have a great hunt!
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Yup! Great time to get the boys with the long spurs;) Sorta like closing time at bar when all the pretty girls are gone and you have to fight over whats left or go without:D
 
grnhawg said:
Yup! Great time to get the boys with the long spurs;) Sorta like closing time at bar when all the pretty girls are gone and you have to fight over whats left or go without:D
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Like when the DJ says "last call! if ya haven't got it, ya ain't getting it" Then all you see is drunk dudes trying to pick up ugly large women?
 
Bugs are bad here as of yesterday. The foliage is out, so sight and sound gets limited.

However, up till now, our gobblers have had their choice of hens, and have not responded to any calls. (They're all clumped up)

As soon as the hens nest, things should get interesting!!
 
Got a jake during opening week, 3 walked right up to my decoys (while I was distracted with my gameboy), and gobblers have been answering left right and center, they love all the calls, they just never seem to show up.
 
I've got to say you turkey hunters have the best humor of all...:D

On a more serious note, buy you're second tag.
There's more ways to bag a Tom than just calling one in.

Ive walked up to one mature Tom and just shot it as he was trying to hide, and flushed just five feet from me.
A very methodical approach with great cunning is required to pull something like that off when the birds are in late season and not responding to calls.
It's all for fun and getting out there....So I say get another tag to learn more and enjoy more time out...:)
 
Well I got my 2nd tag.

Saturday went out to same spot and had 3 birds gobbling 2 left for parts unknown. One stayed and would come in but I couldn't see him. After 1 1/2 hours I could not take it I stopped responding to his gobbles and he stopped gobbling ll together.

Sunday, one gobble then nothing, being mothers day I had to leave early. Get to truck 7 hens 1 big tom and 2 other males in field cross road, get in truck go around corner 3 birds at least one male run across road out of field I had just left.

Maybe next weekend.
 
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