Hunting in the rain
04-04-2004, 11:35 AM
#1
Nontypical Buck
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Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Helena Mt USA
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Hunting in the rain
Well, it looks like opening day, (April 10th) will be a soggy day. It will be my first time hunting turkeys in the rain. Does anyone have any tactics that work in the rain?
04-04-2004, 01:15 PM
#3
Join Date: Apr 2004
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RE: Hunting in the rain
For the rainy days i like to just sit it out and hunt it like a regular day. Just pick a spot where you know turkey will be and sit it out. Dont be impatient and leave the spot to early just because of a little rain, because rain does not effect turkeys all that much, however they tend not to move as much in a thunderstorm. But if its just going to be raining then i would sit at my best spot and wait it out, but keep your calls dry and sit still because they tend to gobble less on rainy days and you never know when one will be on top of you in no time without you knowing it.
04-04-2004, 03:52 PM
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RE: Hunting in the rain
In Montana, I assume you're hunting Merriam's. To me, they are less a woods bird and more a field bird in the first place than, say, Easterns. I'd find their cottonwood roost and set up in a field adjacent the roost site. In my experience, the turkeys will stay clear of the woods as much as they can, and will go to the fields. If you already have scouted and discovered a field they frequent and know their typical entry into that field, set up there.
I'd bring my Ameristep Doghouse and set that up. Stay dry, birds are unafraid of it. BUT, I'd get in the field, not in the woods adjacent, as I've seen birds parade by 65 yards out in the field.
I'd bring my Ameristep Doghouse and set that up. Stay dry, birds are unafraid of it. BUT, I'd get in the field, not in the woods adjacent, as I've seen birds parade by 65 yards out in the field.
04-05-2004, 11:26 AM
#7
Join Date: Dec 2003
Location: Ionia County, Michigan
Posts: 44
RE: Hunting in the rain
Like they said, the birds will be out in the fields. I took my biggest to date (11 1/16 beard, 1 5/16 spurs) during a steady rain at 5:30 in the afternoon on a fall hunt. There were literally 35-40 birds out in a small alfalfa field surrounded by woods. The best part was I forgot all my calls... I just set up on a field edge, waited about 45 minutes and 6 or 7 birds wandered by less than 30 yards away before the big guy committed suicide by walking right at me.
Unless lighting is cracking, there's good huntin' in the rain for turkeys.
Bill
Unless lighting is cracking, there's good huntin' in the rain for turkeys.
Bill
