Question about turkeys in the rain...

[WNCTracker]

If you could hunt in the morning for two hours in the rain or in the afternoon for 5 hours in the rain which would you choose?


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[Ericbrooks]

I would choose morning. Why? Because they are a little more predictable in the mornings

[WNCTracker]

Just putting it out there to hear everybody's 2 cents.  I could be convinced either way but am partial to mornings.


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[Tail Feathers]

I would choose mornings too.  I usually have an idea where they start their day, but where they spend their afternoons is much harder to track where I hunt.  Plus I would have less time to be soaked.

[nativeks]

I'd be ready the second the rain let up. They hit the fields to dry off and get fired up.

[HogBiologist]

I chose afternoon. If you know where they roost, you can catch Mr. Lonely going back to sleep it off. I really like afternoons.

[WNCTracker]

The rain is supposed to let up midday when I can't get out. I do know where they roost at, same spot 2 yrs in a row.


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[kyturkeyhunter4]

If you could hunt in the morning for two hours in the rain or in the afternoon for 5 hours in the rain which would you choose?


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Morning for me

[Snoodsniper]

Morning. They're going to head to the fields if it's raining and will probably stay there all day. Unless the rain lets up.

[WNCTracker]

This is interesting some people indicate turkeys head to fields after rain to dry their feathers and some say they go there when it does rain. It makes sense to me either way. I always thought they went to fields in the rain because their hearing is decreased due to noise of the rain and they go where they can see further to keep safe. Opinions?


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[Ericbrooks]

This is interesting some people indicate turkeys head to fields after rain to dry their feathers and some say they go there when it does rain. It makes sense to me either way. I always thought they went to fields in the rain because their hearing is decreased due to noise of the rain and they go where they can see further to keep safe. Opinions?


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that has always been my thinking as well.

[nativeks]

Around here they go somewhere to try and get out of it. I hunted a monsoon a few years ago on Easter. Found the gobbler and his hens huddled under a tree near the edge of a field. He came gobbling straight to me when I started calling. And that was between 11 and noon.

[jblackburn]

If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning.  I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show.  Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.

[Snoodsniper]

If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning.  I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show.  Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.

Yes. We must conceal how we actually hunt in order to live up to the expectations of the elite....!

[Gooserbat]

If I had an idea of where they headed (usually a field) in the rain, I'd hunt the morning.  I'd take a blind to stay dry and happy and maybe even decoys ( ) and sit there calling every 15 minutes or so in hopes they would show.  Then I would post on OG that I sat in the rain, with no decoys, only yelped three times on a homemade wingbone or better yet, a blade of grass so that others would accept me as a turkey hunter, not a cheater.

I would just claim I went to texas and shot it at 250 yards with a 22-250.