What time of day?

[MK M GOBL]

What time of day do you kill most of your birds?

Off the Roost...            His toes hardly touched the ground
Morning...                   Off the roost and within a couple of hours
Mid/late-Morning...      9am till noon   
Noon/Afternoon...        12p-4pm
Late Day...                  4p till close of season 

Anymore most of my birds are killed in that "Mid/Late Morning"

Of course have killed birds during all these timeframes over the years and through different times of each season early to late. Seems like when I started turkey hunting killed a lot more birds during the "Morning". Here in the early part of WI turkey hunting you could only hunt till noon and season closed. Of course dad and I would spend the rest of the day doing some trout fishing, was also a great way to scout hearing and seeing some birds that lead us to knocking on a few doors

Here is one of my favorite "Off the Roost" birds!

Here's the longbeard I took during (last) 6th season, hit him with the owl call the night before and again in the morning, I made my set up in the timber within about 60yds of him, all I used were a few soft tree calls and my flydown wing, he gobbled from the roost and I could hear him strutting in the tree, I scratched the leaves a bit and watched him fly down, He came in close looking for his lady and I laid him down! Funny thing I had a little buck standing close by and watched the whole thing go down... Talk about a "Morning" hunt He had some good spurs, love these late season hunts.

MK M GOBL

[Rzrbac]

Mid to late is my favorite time. I would guess I've killed more early than late but I like the late morning birds, they seem to put on a better show!

[oldturk]

early off the roost most of mine.

[guesswho]

Normally between 9:30 and 2:30.

[aaron]

Early off the roost and first two hours after.   Then another peak around 11-12.  We sgotta stop at 12 the first two weeks in Ohio.  Last two weeks are all day.  Yet to get on a hot evening gobbler in the few years we've had all day hunting

[kyturkeyhunter4]

Morning off the roost for me

[buzzardroost]

Morning. I never hear much after 9 or so a lot of years in my area.


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[BottomLand54]

9-11:30 am, 5-6pm..... Most my birds make a big circle and with pressure begin to roost eleswhere! This may change this year but I never ever roost a bird the night before and go sit right under him, I'd rather bring him to me! Just the way I hunt. I also hardly ever run n gun mainly set up and watch the sun come up and listen, call, wait..... And normally boom bang

[TauntoHawk]

most the states I hunt you can't hunt past noon or at least the majority of the season so all my kills are before noon and I would say the majority maybe half were first hour of hunting but the last few seasons i've killed a few in that 11-12am window of the last legal hour.

[Dr Juice]

Off the roost.

[MK M GOBL]

Off the roost and early morning is pretty good for me although I have killed at all times of the day. I think your 4 categories kind of leave out the time between "his toes hardly hit the ground" and "mid morning". That's my best time followed by mid morning.

Here is a "his toes hardly hit the ground" bird. Cool hunt too!

Nice Hooks! So were you able to have that bird aged by the tag? Never have seen a WI bird with a tag, don't know if they do that around here.

MK M GOBL

[Happy]

Between daylight and 11pm. 

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[J.D. Shellnut]

From the time he hits the ground till about 10am. I've killed very few birds after noon. But I don't hunt much after that either. I don't like to just set and wait on him to walk up. I like the mornings when he's more vocal and wanting to show off. During midday I like to scout and walk. And if I get on one that's gobbling and I think I can work him that's a bonus for me.

[jakesdad]

mid morning for me. If its going to happen I usually have one down a half hour after shooting time or between 9-11. Seems I have better luck in the 9-11 timeframe tho.

[Tail Feathers]

I would say most are in the morning by the definition provided.  Gotta love being at the diner for breakfast by 7:00am with a tom in the truck tho.