whenever fall turkey starts seems to be.....but im really not out there before hten being i dont bow hunt lol.....but ive seen more bigger bucks on the first day of fall turkey then any other.....one day alone me and dad had 3 that would all been on the wall within bow range.....there we were..shotguns and turkey calls in our hands.....fun to watch.....neat how the kinda let their gaurd down and sniffed our trails and walked rught up to us and one i swear got so close to dad my dad had to scare it away before it attacked him or something....it followed dads trail RIGHT to the tree he was sitting at and got to where my dads feet were stopped and starred right at my dad..when it started moving its head dad jumped at it to scare it off.....dont know what it was thinking......think thats called the rut but im not really sure! lol