Does cold weather kinda stifle gobbling activity? It was fifteen degrees here in Michigan this morning and I only heard one gobble. I only was out side for a two or three minutes getting into my truck but still I usually hear more that time of morning.
Not one bit.
Where I hunt it does. The birds gobble much less during cold weather.
Quote from: Trumpetyelper on April 16, 2014, 05:19:16 PM
Where I hunt it does. The birds gobble much less during cold weather.
Same here
Cold, crisp and sunny mornings will be the best gobbling of your life. From Wyoming to Georgia to Virginia to New York ill take 37 degrees and sunny at daybreak over 60 degrees all day, everyday.
Cold and rain/wind will shut em down faster than the GOP did the Federal government!
It was 26 here in Missouri and sunny yesterday and the gobbling was unbelievable!! Best I have heard all spring they were gobbling at the sound of my garage door yesterday morning.
I thought this in the past. I don't any more. Cool calm sunny is where it's at. Wind and rain shut it down IMO.
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Quote from: alclark2 on April 16, 2014, 07:27:30 PM
I thought this in the past. I don't any more. Cool calm sunny is where it's at. Wind and rain shut it down IMO.
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Sometimes, but it was windy and raining on yesterday here in WA and they were gobbling their heads off where I was, but a buddy only heard 1 gobbler. I was hunting a deep canyon and it was only a little breeze blowing.
Quote from: BigAL64 on April 16, 2014, 07:05:20 PM
It was 26 here in Missouri and sunny yesterday and the gobbling was unbelievable!! Best I have heard all spring they were gobbling at the sound of my garage door yesterday morning.
Southern Iowa was like that yesterday, too. Cold, but clear with no wind. After the weather we had Monday, I gobbled a couple of times myself. :)
I knew cold and wet would, and based on the last two mornings, cold will too.
At least it seems based on limited evidence, a sudden onset of cold weather will.
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on April 16, 2014, 06:24:23 PM
Cold, crisp and sunny mornings will be the best gobbling of your life. From Wyoming to Georgia to Virginia to New York ill take 37 degrees and sunny at daybreak over 60 degrees all day, everyday.
Yes but it was 15 degrees not 37.
Quote from: Lee Lobbestael on April 16, 2014, 09:15:34 PM
Quote from: VaTuRkStOmPeR on April 16, 2014, 06:24:23 PM
Cold, crisp and sunny mornings will be the best gobbling of your life. From Wyoming to Georgia to Virginia to New York ill take 37 degrees and sunny at daybreak over 60 degrees all day, everyday.
Yes but it was 15 degrees not 37.
It was 27 here in Virginia this morning..... And they gobbled well ;)
That's impressive if you heard any from your house within just 2 or 3 minutes!!!
Quote from: twyoung0 on April 17, 2014, 09:14:01 AM
That's impressive if you heard any from your house within just 2 or 3 minutes!!!
Your right but they are usually going off almost constantly and I haven't been hearing any in the evening from the roost. I'm wondering if they just aren't to hot and fired up yet
Some of the biggest gobblers I've taken were mornings I scraped ice off of the windshield. With that said I have noticed that the further South you go they are a little slower on cold mornings until the sun comes up.... Rain does slow them down but I killed a huge tom that was gobbling at the thunder/lightning one morning in Va. He came right on into the call. ..I was actually laying down when I shot him. I was afraid of getting struck by lightning. :OGturkeyhead:
I shot one the other morning that had ice strands running 6" up his beard. The beard was frozen in sections and was each individual section was swinging around like crazy as he was jumping on my DSD.
heck no
here in the south where I live,it affects them very much(very little gobbling at all)