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My first day to hunt, which was the second day of the Arkansas season in April, was questionable. It started raining lightly as I was driving to the woods and by the time that I got there roughly 30 minutes before daylight, lightning was cracking everywhere. The thunderstorm kept me in my little trailer until nearly 9:00. It was still sprinkling a little when I finally walked on up the ridge and I mentally thought that the day was a " washout" but decided that I would give it a shot anyway. Well, I set up on the ridge top and started clucking lightly and heard a distant gobble. A little while later, I hit my Lohman' s pump yelper and the two big toms came on in quickly with it still drizzling lightly off and on. I got one of them! Three days later it was right at 32 degrees early that morning and we actually had a few light snow flurries. About 11:00 (still in the lower 30' s), I called in a trio of gobblers close but couldn' t quite get the right shot due to the brush and terrain. In late April, I went hunting the morning after a night of rain and thunderstorms and the wind was pretty bad. It settled down a little (probaly 10 m.p.h.) later that morning and I again called in a pair and harvested one of them. Thus, I had multiple good experiences in less than perfect weather this year. Turkey are like other animals in that unsettled, rapidly changing weather (as long as not too severe) is stimulating and motivating. They particularly like to " shock gobble" at thunder! Thus, don' t let moderately bad weather keep you out of the woods! " You don' t catch fish with your line out of the water" . Roll the dice.

i totally agree

Here In Wisconsin hot Sunny days are the hardest hunting days I know of. When temps go from consecutive 60 degree days to upper 70' s + in a quick change, The birds get real quiet and difficult to hunt. They will often gobble well in the morning, but by 8:00 or 9:00 am they are tight lipped ghosts. I know I get uncomfortable out there when the day warms up. I prefer cloudy days or even rain over warm sunny days myself. The next worst situation is high winds. allthough You can at least use the wind to your advantage when trying to slip in tight to turkeys without getting busted by noise. My perfect day in the turkey woods would be as follows

Dawn: Clear skys wind calm & temps in the upper 30' s
Mid day: Clear skys, Wind Calm, Temps in the mid 40' s
after That I will take cloudy and a good breeze with temps between 50 and 60
or even a day of rain showers over Hot and sunny.

I have killed birds or seen birds killed in all typs of bad weather but when it gets real hot they are ghosts. On those hotter days Turkeys seem to hide out in cool shady places and avoid being out in the direct sun. They also tend to get tight lipped and often wont answer calls untill you are right on top of them. You have to slow every thing down when it comes to movement to avoid bumping birds. And when its hot out they tend to come in silent if at all. So my best advise is to find a nice cool shady place where you can see for a good 50 yards, and just stay put for a few hours calling every 20 minutes or so. And keep a keen eye open for the sneeky slilent gobbler.

Just my .02 cents.

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Jerry you crack me up!
jerry' s point on Temp. is so right,,

I' m not always right but I believe that Turkeys feel the weather the same as we do. I also believe that in the Wrong kind of weather , a hunter is just adding Presure to the birds he hunts. If the birds do not want to work there not going to. Not all the time they all shut down, even in the hot weather as Scrapper will vote aswell for , you can get the odd bird too work, on the most part bumping birds tend to happen. This past spring in PA , a nice morning sun up , Temp. running up into the low 70* ,Scrapper,jaljva and I , spotted a strtting Tom far aross a holler , and this bird was in strutt in the Shade of a growen Pine. He did not move from that shaded side of the tree. This told us that the bird was feeling the heat. So what have I learned about the OFF days,,, Go hunt your Buddies birds ! ...BT

For me, whenever there was bad weather, I had no luck. I console myself by telling myself that, " I didn' t want to bring home a " soggy gobbler" anyway...

I STILL go out if it' s not a downpour....light rain doesn' t bother me...turkey season is TOO short to mess around with waiting for great weather....and, I appreciate every nice day that we do get[8D]

In Georgia it does get quite hot later on in the season. I shot my second longbeard on a day it was over 80 degrees and sunny. It was hot but I set up on him and he did what I thought he would do. I saw a lot of turkeys on days it was rainy, just find an open area and set up and be patient and they will come. You can shoot a turkey in any weather, but you can' t shoot one on the couch in front of the tv.

You all need to hunt Texas!I' ve hunted gobblers in temps that hit in the mid 90' s there and the birds would still work!Fowl weather means slow down for me.Patience and persistance kills turkeys on these nasty days!I' ve spent many mornings just hanging around to have the weather either break-up or slow down a little to have the birds start firing off!One of my favorite conditions to hunt gobblers is when the morning breaks in nasty and wet to have it break-up and the sun come out in late morning or even afternoon!You can bet a little sun can stir up ole gobbler as the wet weather and clouds give way to warmer temps!I dont mind the rain or even snow a bit but the absolute worst conditions I hate afield is the dang WIND[:@]Even clear days the wind hinders the hunter!Not being able to hear because of it really puts me at a disadvantage,and you can bump alot of birds!

I' d agree with Turkey Addict on the hot days in Wisconsin/Minnesota. They sometimes gobble a little right at first light and then you' d swear there wasn' t a bird in the county.

When it rains really hard and the wind is heavy (Gale force) I stay in the truck as I' ve never had much luck then. It make sense as the trees are moving around so much and the wind so strong that they can' t use their senses to detect danger and I think alot of them just fly up to roost until it passes. I did take a gobbler this year in Wisconsin after it had rained all night but had quit by morning. It was a little windy but not excessive and I figured they' d be out feeding and drying off as well.