My favorite time is the first two hours

Next favorite time is 9 - Noon.

This is the fourth w/end of our season in Tennessee (5th counting the youth hunt). Now that the weather has returned to normal I suspect that the hens are ready to leave big boy earlier and go to nest. That leaves him alone at mid morning looking for love.

I can't stand hunting over decoys, so I like to go find turkeys if the early morning gobbler gets with hens and shuts up. Once I think it's time to go find another turkey I start walking and calling. I do this until I get a gobble or I'm ready to go somewhere else. I use a variety of mouth and pot calls, some high frequency and loud, some softer. I cut and yelp, starting with lower volume and building up to as loud as I can call. Several times I have seen gobblers respond only to the loudest calls even though they weren't so far away that they couldn't hear the preceeding softer ones.

I killed a birdthis pastSaturday at 1:15 andanother the next day at 11:45. Last year I killed one at 11:30 that gobbled his head off.

The turkeys are still out there, you just need to go find 'em. I don't have the patience to sit somewhere in one spot and wait for one to stumble across me - too much like deer hunting.

Mouthcaller