Favorite destinations

[Txag12]

Guys I'm putting a list together of places to visit in up and coming seasons. Not asking for spots or what public ground to chase, just generalizations of where you've had the most fun chasing turkeys over the years. I am planning a trip to the New Mexico mountains next spring, and a trip for florida osceolas the following spring of 2019. I'd love to cover new ground and just see different scenery on one or two trips every spring. I think it's always great to hear of other guys favorite trips and places to hunt. I've turkey hunted all over various areas of Oklahoma and Texas, with a few hunts in Upstate NY off lake Ontario as well as the southern tier. I would say for anyone looking for something different it would be chasing turkeys in mesquite country in West TX, very different from what I see most guys post up and probably think of when it comes to a stereotypical turkey hunt!

[hobbes]

I moved West going on 11 years ago, so I've lived in what some folks would consider destination states. 

The Colorado mountains were a fun place to chase Merriam's  (probably much like NM).  I lived there for 5 years so it wasn't a destination at the time, but I'd like to go back some day.

I've not been in a while, but Northwest Nebraska has been one of my favorites.  I don't think it's as good as it used to be but the scenery hasn't changed.

I've only been to Kansas once and we only hunted two days due to rain and a massive storm bearing down on us, but I thoroughly enjoyed it (a tom apiece for my son and I didn't hurt).

It's been years, but I loved south central Missouri when I hunted it.  It was much like where I started hunting turkeys in Southern IL.

I drive through the Black Hills at least once a year but still haven't hunted it.  It is on my list for sure.

Cottonwood riverbottoms in NE,  CO, SD,  or MT are a different experience that's a lot of fun.

I'd love to make it to Florida for Osceolas, but that's a tough trip to make from MT.

I've not hunted Easterns for a couple years so I'm ready for a hard gobbling Eastern in hardwood ridges just about anywhere.

[FL-Boss]

New mexico...wyoming black hills....south florida...all hard to beat ..

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[Gooserbat]

South East Oklahoma Public Land, because it's where I learned to Turkey hunt and it will separate the men from the boys.

[MT elk slayer]

Montana in the dark timbers, hands down, some of the hardest birds I've ever hunted and a whole new ball game

[Cottonmouth]

River bottoms in Mississippi.  Nothing like seeing one come in strutting through the old growth hardwoods. When they gobble, it will send chills up your spine. If that doesn't light your fire, your wood is wet.

[LaLongbeard]

I like the pine uplands in Louisiana also the bottom land along the Mississippi I learned to hunt turkeys in both places.