Rainy day Question

[Dr Andy]

If you wake up at O-Dark:30 and its raining hard do you go to the woods at the usual time or do you go back to bed and get a late start?

[RayC]

I'm at least at the woods with a jug of coffee, turn the wipers on once in a while to see how bad it really is

[maytom]

ORIGINAL: Dr Andy

If you wake up at O-Dark:30 and its raining hard do you go to the woods at the usual time or do you go back to bed and get a late start?

Raining hard, I'll go back to bed and if it appears to be slowing down later in the morning, I may head out then. Personally, hunting in a heavy rain just aint fun in my book. I save up vacation time to hunt during the spring turkey season. So I feel that I don't have to hunt the "off" days weather wise.

[OhiobowHunter56]

i do... seems from my experience everytime its raining hard i go out and setup and it starts to slow down...someof these mornings have even been sucessful... just my experience i know kinda wierd... but i guess i go out just to get away from the house sometimes

[Totemkopf]

One of the best times to hunt turkeysis right after the rain stops.

[Dr Andy]

Seeing as time is limited and I have to travel to where I hunt I'll probably set up in the rain

[Arrowmaster]

I had that experience today. It was pouring and then lightened up and I was already sitting in my blind. It payed off with a 25lb double beard with 1 in spurs. So dont sleep in just go getem...

[old longbeards]

yep....i'm there at half past oh dark thirty...thermos in hand and plannin on gettin wet...lol......didnt you know turkey huntin's an obsession???...lmao

[Strut&Rut]

I bought a cheap, after-season clearance blind from Walmart this Spring for 2 reasons; 1) a 5-yr old daughter who just has to go turkey hunting with her papa, and 2) rain soaked days I can sit in a water resistant blind and stay dry!!

From my experiences, the birds move to open areas, and are call shy during rainy days. Sit on a field edge, or a small secluded draw (open strut zone or sheltered forest), put out the dekes and wait. Patterning is the key to those days...

I won't go out in thunderstorms though. My experience with boomers is this...all of the woodland creatures simply disappear...and the woods explode immediately after...

[acurtis]

i wouldnt go out in a down pour but if it was a lite shower i would go