How does cold affect turkeys?

[WNCTracker]

I'm going out tomorrow either early morning or late afternoon. It's going to 26 degrees in the am. Will this change gobbler behavior?  Would morning or late afternoon be better?


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[Skeeterbait]

I have killed turkeys with ice in the puddles that gobbled to the gun.  A clear but cold day won't put them down if they were already well into it and fired up.  Rain and wind combined with cold is another story.

[mastevt]

I agree with what was just said.   Cold, calm, and sun, they will be active.   Cold, cloudy, and windy, not so much.

[WNCTracker]

Forecast is Cold and clear tomorrow'


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[budtripp]

I was out scouting this morning and the birds were tearin it up. 26 degrees calm and sunny.

[DirtNap647]

rain and wind not my favorite but you should be ok calm and cold

[stinkpickle]

Yep, 24 degrees this morning with clear skies and no wind.  The birds were tearing it up!  I shot one about 1/2 hour after sunrise.

[Tail Feathers]

This cold front sure shut 'em up in E. Texas this morning. 
Gonna be even colder in the morning but I'll be out after em again!

[turkey_slayer]

It bothers people more so than them

[WNCTracker]

Quiet birds today.


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[Wolfey]

Was a very slow morning for me today. Was snowing and windy. Froze my butt off and didn't see a single bird. Tomorrow should be better though just cold.

[AL trout bum]

Cold doesn't bother them. Like others have said, it's the wind and pressure that can mess you up.

[GomerPyle]

I let my dog out to pee yesterday morning at 7am............it was 40*, light but steady rain and a HOWLING wind, probably sustained 20mph with gusts over 30....

yet, as I'm standing there on the porch, over the sound of the wind and trees shaking and swaying and dogs barking (I live at the back of a neighborhood), from the pasture and woods behind me I hear a *purrrr - pock*..............*purr - pock*

I was sitting there bewildered wondering "did I really just hear that?  surely not".

about that time....."yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeelpyelpyelpyelpyelp"

not only was this hen cutting up in this awful weather, she was doing it so loud and vigorously that I could hear her, from at least 150yds away, over the sound of a storm and the normal sounds of a neighborhood on a weekday morning.

all that is to say, "when they're ready, they're ready"

[bamagtrdude]

28 degs in Fayette, AL, and my buddy reported -- MASSIVE GOBBLING & activity; in fact, he called 3 up, and ....  missed the big'un!!    But, he's there for another day...

[bigbird]

It was cold again here in southern Indiana this morning. Zero gobbles on the farm directly south of me and only one bird one time on me. Then it seems on another farm that they've bunched up again, or perhaps the river just got huge and several hens are gonna renest because of damage?  3 strutter sand 28 hens this morning on another one of our farms. And the 3rd good farm we have seen and heard 0 and there was roughly 8 on it with about the same number of hens! Weird day here around my place for sure. Gonna warm up so hopefully they start hammering it out again!