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Missouri, Tennessee, or elsewhere for first eastern?

Started by JMalin, February 18, 2020, 11:20:52 AM

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Rzrbac

The good ole days of hunting SEMO are certainly gone. I can hunt several days in a row without hearing a gobble. There were so many days of hearing 8-9 birds a morning back in the 80s and 90s. Even up until early 2000's you would still hear multiple birds.
I think the non-resident hunters have thinned out a bit in my spots. Used to see plates from about every state in the southeast. Last year I did see one NY rig. I've never had any problems from any non-residents. I don't live in the county I hunt and I've had problems with some locals. Got shot at about 6 years ago. I walked a long way to get to a bird. Never heard anybody calling at all. Called the bird up the ridge and shot him. It was a pretty short hunt once I got to his ridge. While the bird was flopping somebody shot over my head twice. I hung around waiting for a confrontation but I never saw anyone. There weren't any rigs parked anywhere on the road I was parked on. That's about the worst that's happened to me. I've had several locals meet me by my truck and complain about it being crowded. I even had one guy tell me this was his last year hunting during season. He was gonna go back to killing his birds before season. I guess there's good and bad no matter where you go. I think the lack of birds has led some folks to abandon courtesy. As far as MO goes, I think it will only get worse. I've been thinking about a TN hunt, I would like to hunt somewhere that had a decent population.

James gang

Agree totally we are going to tn again this year have had good luck there.I here that everywhere i go ( not waiting for season so out of towners can try to run me out of my spot ive hunted all my life) im sure  killing gobblers early in the mating season is great for our turkey population.

There is no way of knowing where people park or where they are in the woods as many hunters as we have people are going to bump into each other.Thats way different than parking next to someone and going after a turkey they are allready working. My old man would of slapped me silly if i parked in sight of another truck ( have some respect they were here first he'd say) I had a mississippi guy pull up to me next to my truck last year asked if i had any luck.
I had just heard two birds gobble just before he stopped .I told him and he said well ill go on so you can get after them.I told him sounded like two birds he may as well come with me.We didn't kill one that day but made a friend and got invited to hunt with him in mississippi a little respect goes along way.

Dtrkyman

I bailed on a botched hunt on private in Missouri second week last spring, drove 40 minutes to public and killed a suicide tom that ate the call up around 10am.

It was the third day I have hunted that section of ground and i have killed 2 birds, guess I should spend more time in there!

I agree on the points made about being able to hunt all day in TN. though!