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View Poll Results: When do you call it a day if you don't harvest a turkey?
8am-9am
5
12.82%
10am-noon
19
48.72%
1pm-3pm
6
15.38%
4pm-dark
9
23.08%
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What time of day do you usually pack up and head home during spring turkey season

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Old 02-12-2012 | 10:11 AM
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Can only hunt til noon in NH.

Some years I've gotten my bird at first light before they are henned up. Other years it has been later between 9ish and noon.
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Old 02-12-2012 | 04:18 PM
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Stay until noon gotta b out by 1
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Old 02-15-2012 | 10:45 AM
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My gun is loaded till 1pm on public land. If I am having an incredibly crappy day I may take it in early. I hate hunting on extremely windy days so I may pack it in early on those days. Otherwise, I hunt as long as legally possible.

I have even left work after working a 12 night shift and hunted till 1pm. Having a WMA just a few miles away helps. I just need to make sure they never do a parking lot check for guns at work!
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Old 02-17-2012 | 06:11 PM
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As long at it's legal. If you don't take a longbeard off the roost and he gets henned up, the longer you stay out the better chance the hens will break free and he will start roaming looking for another hen to breed. I've killed birds right up until legal quitting time, which is well past 7PM up here in MI in May.
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Old 05-10-2012 | 05:38 PM
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i ussualy quit at about 930 to 10
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Old 05-10-2012 | 05:41 PM
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Our hunting ends at 12 noon as well..
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Old 05-10-2012 | 06:46 PM
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Originally Posted by newton29
I will generally hunt until noon to see if a gobbler who was with hens at daylight gets lonely about 10 or 11. I have hunted in the afternoon, and have called a couple in at 3-4 o'clock, but not enough to give me the confidence to stay all day all the time.
Same here. If i cant get them to come in right away in the morning, I usually wait til 9 am, which i call the magic hour. I cant count the number of times after 9 am the toms get lonely and start looking for another girlfriend, which can be a very easy time to call them in. Seems like they get real vocal again too.
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Old 05-11-2012 | 05:12 AM
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I hang in there until the very last legal minute. The only thing that sends me home early is if I get caught in a downpour, no bird is worth getting sick over.
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Old 05-11-2012 | 06:47 AM
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i can not answer with a vote as i will hunt till the law says i cant. we have a split season here. where the first 2 weeks it ends at 12 noon and last 2 weeks it ends at sunset.
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Old 05-11-2012 | 12:41 PM
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i usually leave when i get one, 4 oclock when i have to go to work and weekends at dark
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