Turkey Question

[RKE]

Morning all. This is the first year that we are trying our hand at turkey hunting. With the youth season being this past weekend, we headed out both days. We located a good number of toms and jakes on public land both days and set up to call. We would get a gobble response about 1/2 the time, but they weren't interested in coming in. The temps were in the low to mid 40s with rain and even a little snow on and off, could the weather be the reason they weren't very interested?

 

[kabose1]

Morning all. This is the first year that we are trying our hand at turkey hunting. With the youth season being this past weekend, we headed out both days. We located a good number of toms and jakes on public land both days and set up to call. We would get a gobble response about 1/2 the time, but they weren't interested in coming in. The temps were in the low to mid 40s with rain and even a little snow on and off, could the weather be the reason they weren't very interested?

More likely they had hens and didn't want to leave them to find you.

 

[GUNDOGLOVER49]

What kabose1 said, plus sometimes they just get hung up for whatever reason. when that happens to me, I stop calling for a while then start again with just one or two soft calls.

 

[ilovesprig]

Morning all. This is the first year that we are trying our hand at turkey hunting. With the youth season being this past weekend, we headed out both days. We located a good number of toms and jakes on public land both days and set up to call. We would get a gobble response about 1/2 the time, but they weren't interested in coming in. The temps were in the low to mid 40s with rain and even a little snow on and off, could the weather be the reason they weren't very interested?

Same thing happened to us on our youth hunt...The birds always had hens around them and even single toms picked up live hens...I thought we had one when his hen split off and came right into the decoys...He stopped and strutted at 70-80 yds...What we didn't see was, there was another hen behind her...Pretty frustrating for sure, but that's a common scenario......

The 2 birds that were taken were single jakes out cruising around...........

ps...The other problem we have is, we can not move and relocate our position..........

 

[HATCHET1]

I hate rain birds .gonna be playing the game this weekend myself ..No Knuckleheads in tow this year..just me..I'm Abit apprehensive...scared if you will... performance anxiety...damn yardbirds make me nervous...

 

[180ls1]

Morning all. This is the first year that we are trying our hand at turkey hunting. With the youth season being this past weekend, we headed out both days. We located a good number of toms and jakes on public land both days and set up to call. We would get a gobble response about 1/2 the time, but they weren't interested in coming in. The temps were in the low to mid 40s with rain and even a little snow on and off, could the weather be the reason they weren't very interested?

Yes, blue bird type of days are generally ideal but that may or may not be the crux of the issue.

Turkeys are not a math problem, as I am sure you know. Sometimes you can do the same thing have have completely different responses. Stick with it and keep trying. This is probably a situation where you didn't do anything wrong, things just did not come together.

 

[RKE]

Thanks for the help and info fellas! We had a blast and are headed back this weekend!