Well I guess that depends on what part of Ohio you live in. I always thought that the timing for turkey season was right on the money until the DOW made the start one week earlier a few years ago. Now I think it starts too early. The third week of April, the birds are still in their winter flocks up here. Very few hens are setting and basically you follow flocks of 30+ hens around hoping to lure a satellite gobbler over to where you are. Hunting doesn't get really good (and I mean REALLY GOOD!) until the first and second weeks of May. Even the third week of May is rockin'!
A friend of mine made a trip to southern Ohio this week and commented on how green the fields and grass are. Up here in the far north, it looks like February or March or any other month with nothing growing.
The DOW does not want to split the state into northern and southern zones so I guess the current start date is a good compromise. Starts too late in the south and too early in the north.
