Turkeys gobbling in GA
 

Went out this morning to see if I could here anything, by 6:15 I had heard six turkeys. Three of the Six would gobble at anything. When the turkeys flew down all but two of them didn't say another word. The two birds that keep gobbling talked untill about 7:30. What a great morning to be in the woods. Can't wait untill this weekend.


If anyone else has anymore information write me back. I will read this about two to three times a day. Would really like to hear back from some of you all.

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Sounds good, I'll be hunting near Valdosta March 26 - March 29. Thanks for the update, and hopefully we'll be getting more. The turkeys are starting to gobble better here in MO, and I'm ready to break nasty on 'em.
Widow Maker

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Hey Mossyhead! What part of GA are you in? I'm above Dalton and hadn't been able to get out and listen yet.

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Hey trizey I hunt around the augusta area.

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mossyhead,

I also hunt the Augusta area. Cant wait until sat. I went out this am and heard three or four. Dont have much time to scout this year. Trying to rely on last years data. You hunt private land or WMA?

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I hunt in Ga as well. Opening morning I'll be in Hawkinsville (if anyone knows where that is). Sunday I;m gonna hunt up around Forsyth, and I hope to hunt in Tifton on Monday morning. As far as the gobbling, they're getting real hot real quick. This weekend should be equally good for anyone in the state. The weather looks like it's gonna be perfect. I'm filming all this weekend's hunts for a show on the Sportmans Channel. We'll be on pretty soon. If we get one, I'll let yall know so you can watch. Good Luck and let us know if you get one.

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Hey Bubba where do you hunt at around augusta. I hunt private land. I have some more good news. This morning I went out and heard some really hot birds. I say I heard about 4 to 6 birds. The birds kept gobbling well after they hit the ground. I could not stay and see how long the birds would gobble. We all have this little thing call work that gets in the way of everything. I was out there untill around 7:15 are so this morning. Hey Old Faithful my brother and I are also filming are hunts. I will send you some if you would like to see them. We have 4 nice hunts from last year. I hope to have some PIC for you all this weekend if evrything works out like a hope it will.

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mossyhead868, I also went out this am and heard about 5-6 birds, we werent in the same place were we? Just kidding, I have to hunt WMA land because I'm up here in school. I usually hunt Yuchi. I had to get to class but the birds I left were still gobbling at about 6:50. Are the birds you have been watching henned up yet?

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Hey bubba were do you go to school at. I am also in school. If you ever want to go hunt some private land give me an email. I have a few places we can go. My family owns about 2000 acers. I think it has some of the best turkey hunting around. Good luck in the morning to you.

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mossyhead; I'm a Junior dental student at MCG. Any time your up for a little hunting, I am. I have spring break the week af masters-- I know its public land, but I might can return the favor and let you hunt some new territory. I had real good luck there last year. Especially during spring break. Good luck in the morning; I dont know if you read one of the other posts, but hopefully my wife won't miss in the am like she did last year! I could have killed the bird with a stick!!!

bubba

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Ok there Bubba and Mossyhead,

Send them dang birds past Yuchi and down a few miles torge Girard. I was out this morning and yesterday evening looking for gobblers off Griffin Landing road. I heard two gobbles this morning but the were so far away, it woudnt do me no good. I'll be there in the morning but I might be walking around jumping deer:( Seen more deer yesterday and this morning then I did during deer season on that lease![:@] Of course in deer season, it was slap full of turkeys, go figure:( I live in Waynesboro, so be on the look out for a little white S10 with feathers flying out the back:D.

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Well, the birds that I listened to all week and thought I had pegged, werent there this morn. S**T happens. I was on a limited time schedule this morning anyway and didn't have time to chase down the few birds I did hear. Overall, I didn't hear near as many birds today as yesterday. Only counted 4-5 shots. Better luck tomorrow!!

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Well I hunted Alexander WMA this weekend, heard one bird but it was of the the WMA and gould not get it to moved on to where I could get a shot at it. Pretty frustating when you have one that wants to gobble, and you know it is on land you can't hunt, but that is all part of the game.

Robert

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Mossyhead,

As you know our season opened Sat. Mar 20th, I heard 4 and went after one of them, he went over a ridge and wouldn't come back. Sunday, 21st I only heard two, one was the same one I went after Sat., went away again. I got to thinking about what he did and fiqured him out. He would go over the ridge to his strut zone and hang up (by the way, over the ridge was another mans' property and I couldn't go after him). This morning, the 22nd I heard 3, the same one was at it again, went after again, he did the same thing, but I stayed put and kept calling. Had a jake come in, 6 different hens, then finally at about 8:30 a.m. he came in with a jake trailing behind. I got him at about 25 yds. He weighed 18.59 lbs, had a 10 in. beard, and both spurs was 3/4 in. each.

Had to brag a little as you can tell.

dog1

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Is it just me or are the birds acting funny this year. I'm guessing they are all henned up. I can't find a bird that wants to gobble more than once or twice, and they arent roosting anywhere near the same area from one day to the next. Anyone else having trouble??

Whats up with that?

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My opening day was not to bad, just empthy handed.

Well I thought it was going to be a skunky looking morning cause I didnt hear no gobbling and one shot untill about 7:00. Then at 7:03 I heard a few gobbles close enough and on my club, so I decided to move in a little closer. After I went about 200 yards, I waited for about five minutes and nothing. So a did a few yelps and nothing for another five minutes. I was thinking he was across the line on the other side of this creek, when I started moving again. PUTT PUTT PUTT!!!!! Oh crap, fifty yards in some green growth. I did'nt think he seen me, but he knew I was there. I instantly droped to a kneeling ready position, with saftey off. I followed him out of the thick stuff and he walked back and forth facing away. I was ready, but he was to far. Sooooo, I waited. After about a half hour of this son of a gun walking back and forth varying from 50 to 70 yards, he finally walked out of site just over the hill. All the while he was putting and gobbling!! Putt, putt, putt gobble. (wait a few seconds) Putt, putt, putt gobble.

Sniper/sneak mode set in and I knee crawled forward about 10 feet to see if I could get up to a log between us, and look over the ridge. He must of heard me and thought I was scratching for food, here he come a running I'm on my hands and knees with my gun on the ground Ok dont move........hes about 30 yards, oh lord if I could get my gun up But wait a minute his beard, where is it? Crap, its a just nub, Mr. Jake had me thinking I was in a serious pickel.

Ok my turn to play after a few minutes of eye balling me and then I guess he was thinking no turkeys were around, so he started to move on. I let him get about 80 yards over the hill, (and after the feeling came back to me legs and back). I grabed a stick and moved over against a big oak with spanish moss hanging all over. I use the stick and scraped like some feeding turkeys. Let out a few yelps and purrs on my Kaiser Call. Here he came a running.

40 yards, and looking hard! This time he did'nt stay around. He left back in the direction he was heading without a hen, but alive.

This lasted from 7:03 till about 8:30. And I was home by 10:00 to go to my daughters soccer game.


Sunday, I called up two hens with my Kaiser glass call. That was it, and I thought I heard a gobble on the other side of the road. I crossed the road and when I went over some bumps, my shot gun fell off and landed in the mud barrel first. So I quit and went to move my tripod stands before the loggers come next week[:'(]
yall be careful out there. Ill be back at 'em next weekend.

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Better luck than us(my wife and I).

Hey mike bell,

I hunt on the piece of Yuchi thats on the river. I take griffen landing road and either hunt just accross(NE) river road(about 1/4 mile) on the right or about 1/4 mile down river road to the SE just before you go down the first big hill. I drive a Blue Toyota. I reckon were pretty close to each other. Ive been lookin for the white s-10.

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Another Augusta area hunter here.

I've been to 3 diferent locations during this past weekend's opener, and heard one distant gobbles at sunrise but nothing afterwards. I did see 3 deer and a hen but that was it. The week before the opener, they seemed to be everywhere but got all hushed up on Saturday morning. I'm headed out to Yucci tomorrow morning and I'll post the results. I too hunt the section over by the river.

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Sorrry I have not posted anyting in a while. I have been hunting everyday since the season opened. I have only heard 2 birds. I do not know what happen to all the birds that I was hearing the week before opening day. We did get some cold fronts that moved through on the weekend, I don't know if that had something to do with it or not. I have only talked to a hand full of people that has had any luck. Great job on the bird dog1. I'm glad someone is having some luck. Hey Bubba I feel the same way you do. The birds are acting real funny this year. I have never seen the birds act like this. Bubba let me get your email address so we can get in touch and do some hunting. Mike Bell I would love to send some birds your way, but I have to find some birds first. It was cold hunting this morning. It was one of the coldest morning that I had ever hunted turkeys. When I got out of my truck it was 27*F. It was cold. I did not stay out there long because I did not hear a bird. I really do hope the hunting gets better.

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Hopefully it will warm up this weekend coming. Boy thats a first for me:D I hate hot weather[:'(]

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Hey Guys,
Went this am(3/23) Actually got on a bird that was gobbling his fool head off. Then I realized he had company. about 6-8 of the longest scaley legged ladies you ever did want to see! They took him the other way.

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I will be coming through the Augusta area the first week of April, and am looking for a place to hunt on Sat. April 3. Actually, any place along the I-20 corridor between Augusta and Atlanta is good.

Any of you guys have any suggestions or pointers on WMAs in that area? Private land help would be pushing it, I know, but I could reciprocate by hooking you up with a rio or merriams hunt in UT.

Hal

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Hawglips,

You wouldn't happen to be comming to the masters would ya! Just thought I would ask.
What days are you open to hunt?

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OOPS! My stupidity, I just reread your original message Hawglips and saw when youll be here. Sorry.

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Well, this Saturday, I'll be set up with somebodyIve never meet that my dad hooked me up with. I have to met him at 5:00am. Hes supposedly has a hot spot with a bunch of gobbling going on and needs help shooting them[8D]

We shall see:D

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Gave Yucci a try on Wednesday morning. Honestly, as far as I could tell, there were at least 10 different gobblers hammering away around first light.....in every direction around me. I was there from an hour before sunrise until almost 12:30, and there was still gobbling going on. I tried my best but couldn't get a single gobbler to head to my decoy set-up. I did get a couple hens up close enough to see that they were hens but they lost interest and wandered back into the woods. I'm gonna give it another try next week sometime and see how it goes. I believe the boys already have the girls and don't want to wander away looking for more. Soon....Very soon.

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Well yall,

Finally, after almost 13 years since I left Maryland, Ive finally shot another turkey. Although Ive taken a few in the mountains of Maryland. This Georgia Gobbler, sure feels like my first turkey ever. It was an awesome morning to be in the woods. I was truly blessed this Sunday morning.

There really is no great story. Other then text book turkey hunt.

I was parked in the middle of this big dog leg shaped field at 5:30 am. I was prepairing my hunting gear while standing there and making sure I had what I needed. At about ten till six , I thought I heard one gobble at a real owl hoot way off torge the south. So I honked my truck horn to see if he would shock gobble and I if I could get a bead on his location. No response. So I decided to head that way anyway across the field. Fifty yards from my truck as I was walking, a gobbler behind me on the other side the field gobbled at some crows who just started crowing. He was alot closer then the other one, but I would need another gobble to be sure. So I hoofed it over about 150 yards to the edge of the woods to listen. Gobble sounds like he was up over on the ridge 200 yards, but on down the ridge and off our property by about a hundred yards. So I went down about 20 yards from the bottom of the ridge and stoped at a big oak tree to do some soft yelps on my Kaiser Kalls zebrawood glass call from Andy Kaiser. Instant gobble. I figured about right, only he was closer then I thought. Not wanting to bump him, I sat down and got set up. I called again and he gobbled. I pulled out my video camara, because I wanted to at least get my calling on taped for evaluation later on. After about five minutes, a turkey flew down on my side of the ridge, close to where I just walked through. Dont know what it was, but it went the gobblers way but stayed up on my side of the ridge. A few minutes and gobbles later I heard my gobbler fly down

I called several more times over the next ten minutes and he answered back with gobblesabout every other series of yelps. About 6:25 when I thought he went the other way or hung up. Here comes a turkey running down the ridge at about 80 yards I seen a beard, so he was bigg enough to shoot. His direction was headed behind me, when he got in the thick stuff in the bottom a followed him turning to my left.

He poped in a hole at about 30 yards and rolled him with a load of 3" magnum Winchester Supreme #4's turkey load.

I was on top of him in about two seconds, he flopped for a few seconds and that was it.

[8D] 18lbs. 9 inch beard and 15/16 inch spurs.
After using the NWTF measuring system and a fish scale to get the correct weight , I've updated the measurments. I tried using a house hold scale, but his head was on the ground. And a regular Stanley tape measure didnt work to go for the spurs as you will see a 6in. rule is better for the spur measuring.
I'll post a picture later.

Another one gobbled while I was sitting there looking at the bird and packing up. So I cxovered him up with leaves and sat back down and called some. No doing after a few minutes of no response, so I decided I was done and headed out.When I came out the woods into the field the sun was just coming over the tree tops at the end of the field.

I thanked the good lord above what was a truely beautiful start to another day.

And remember yall Kaiser Kalls can make you sound like a pro, even if your an average joe hunter like me:D
I'll post a picture later.

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Ok yall, here I am with em' hanging over my back!


And my new Kaiser Kall I used to get him.