How is the hunting after 10 or 11 oclock?

[charlie (ky)]

Indiana, has extended the hunting hours, dawn to dusk. Is the hunting any better or worse after noon?

[Doemasters]

Speaking this good ole Alabama point of view, I love hunting mid-day & afternoons. I have a higher success rate on up into the day if I can get one to respond to me. That's the trick. A responding tom isn't always going to gobble. around 10 or so I like to walk logging roads & call every 150 yards or so until I get a gobble. Later in the afternoons I like to set up on fields & do softer feeding calls. I also use more than one call at a time to sound like the family is around. Thant's just my 2 cents though.

[Rob/PA Bowyer]

There are times when hunting mid morning can be more productive than hunting first light. Many times when gobblers hollar off the roost, hen's move in and steal them from you...that's what nature intends...the hen goes to the gobbler...as hunters, we try the opposite but can't compete with the female of the species.....so mid morning when hen's move off after breeding....many gobblers are out looking for hens...this makes them very acceptable....course hunting pressure and calling pressure can shut them down...

This past Saturday, PA's first youth day for spring gobblers we had birds all day hollaring but hen'd up....at 10:45 on my recommendation we headed for a well know strut zone to setup but on my first call we had a lone tom answer...scrambling to setup we shot a 10.25 in 2 yr old out on his own....earlier he might not have been so eager....so don't give up as the morning grows on.

[triplespool]

HELLO CHARLIE, I LIVE IN INDIANA, I WILL TELL YOU THIS YEAR THE BIRDS ARE SOUNDING OFF IN THE ROOST WAY AFTER DAY BREAK. I WOULD SEE THE TOM FLY DOWN ONLY WHEN HE HAS ALOT OF HENS UNDER HIS TREE. THEN THEY WOULD STAY IN THE WOODS. IT HAS RAINED ALOT AND THEY DID NOT HIT THE FIELDS. THIS I COULD NOT BELIEVE. THIS IS PRIVATE LAND AND NOT HUNTED HARD AT ALL. AFTER 11:00 I NEVER SEEN A BIRD. I STAY OUT ALL DAY AND I TAKE MY LUNCH WITH ME. SO WITH THAT SAID I WILL ONLY BE HUNTING IN THE A.M. .HOPE THIS HELPS.