Rainy day Question
 

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?

RE: Rainy day Question
 

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 ;)

RE: Rainy day Question
 

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.;)

RE: Rainy day Question
 

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;)

RE: Rainy day Question
 

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

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

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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...

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

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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...

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

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In a light rain, I'm out there. But in a hard rain or downpour like we had last Saturday, I head back to bed and see if it gets better later. It did finally stop raining . . . about 1/2 hour after hunting hours were done for the day!

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daveH - yea sat. wasNASTY wasnt it? I went to Green ridge hoping it would just rain a little (or none) but it freaking pourrredddd. I was a little upset. If i knew it was that bad, i wouldnt have went. But yea, a drizzle to moderate rain fall i can stand, but a downpour it just isnt fun or really productive. Getting all wet, not hearing 50 yards ahead of you and the fact that the turkeys cant really hear me gets me discouraged. But i will be out this weekend if mother nature allows. DAVEH, what part of country do you hunt?