Scouting Report and Season Outlook

[bornagain64]

Backwater and I are going scouting one of our spots tomorrow. Weather down here in Florida has not been constant or normal. Its been unseasonably hot, until a couple weeks ago, and then got down to 30s and 40s for several night in a row.

They where gobbling, but that might have shut them back up. We will find out in the morning.

We hunt public land, so there are a lot of variables. We might throw a couple of cameras up also.

                              John

[timberjack86]

Good luck guys hope to see some pics.

[jarbo03]

Good luck guys. Prob another month and half before I start scouting. Picked up some new land that holds a ton of Rios, saw a group of 2-300 while deer and pheasant hunting, very excited.

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[bornagain64]

We went this morning to scout. We rode our bikes 5 1/2 miles on a dirt road at 5:00 am, then we walked back to our spot, about 2 miles total. Scouted for 3 hours, And then we had to get back out, about 7 more miles, of walking and biking. Our legs where reminding us that we were not that young anymore.

Did not see much sign. Did put out 2 cameras in some good areas. Ray did find a 4 point shed.

Here is some picture clip of a video from last year. I could not get the video to up load.
We think the gobbler doing the chasing is still alive.

[backwater]

 .... That was a tough scouting trip.  Looking forward to scouting our other hunting spot.  John, I saw we give today's spot another try in the morning.  Lol.....

[timberjack86]

When does your season open?

[backwater]

Our season opens on March 16th.

[timberjack86]

Boy it wont be long! I wish ours started that early. Ours starts March 30.

[jarbo03]

April 10 here

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[backwater]

Going out on another scouting trip in the morning. There is a cold front moving through our general area that may shut them up.  We shall see.

[jarbo03]

Was 16° this morning, saw 3 big toms strutting, I think they are ready for spring also.

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[timberjack86]

I saw 9 gobblers and two strutters the other day near my home.Just wish it was March 30th.

[jarbo03]

Now have 10" snow on the ground, 6" more tomorrow night. Need to get out and do some bird counting.

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[bornagain64]

Ray and I went out again, Sunday before church. He heard a few gobble and we have a nice one on one of our cameras. Now if they are there on opening day and will cooperate and there is no one else around, we could have a good hunt.

                      John

[timberjack86]

I saw a flock of 30+ birds yesterday. They were about 40 yards from the road we were on and there was 2 strutters. I rolled down the window and whistled as loud as I can. I got both birds to shock gobble as they were walking away.