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Rain???
« on: May 05, 2010, 02:14:32 PM »
Does rain have any effect on a turkey hunt? Does it effect a turkeys daily routine? Can you hunt in the rain and still be as succesfull?

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Re: Rain???
« Reply #1 on: May 05, 2010, 02:16:08 PM »
Yes to all three

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Re: Rain???
« Reply #2 on: May 05, 2010, 02:16:37 PM »
Does rain have any effect on a turkey hunt?

Yes, you will get wet.   :chuckle:   Sorry I couldn't resist.

Honestly I don't know the answer to that. But I don't think there would be much effect, other than making your turkey calls harder to hear.

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Re: Rain???
« Reply #3 on: May 05, 2010, 02:49:17 PM »
Never had any luck in the rain!  As a friend of mine said last week, he said "well, they are not much different from humans they rather do it in the sun than in the mud and rain"  :chuckle: I think is is on to somethin :chuckle:  We saw birds in private fields feeding with hens and toms but no tom was strutting.  :dunno: 

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Re: Rain???
« Reply #4 on: May 05, 2010, 06:08:19 PM »
Yep, you can call them in in the rain. Most of the time they will: not gobble as much, be less active, come in more silent, sit on the roost a little longer, seek and spend the day in openings. But if it is raining too hard, setting up on a bird that isn't gobbling much isn't a whole lot of enjoyable. And if you are going to hunt for consecutive days, getting your clothes soaked isn't always the greatest option. I'd go eat lunch and take a dry nap. (Hard to tell, but it is raining in the picture.)

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Re: Rain???
« Reply #5 on: May 05, 2010, 06:35:02 PM »
I just put my umbrella blind in a tree along a logging road/skid road, field edge, or other forest opening and wait for the parade.  Just need a place they frequent, and I'm nice and dry ...
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Re: Rain???
« Reply #6 on: May 06, 2010, 01:40:15 PM »
I just put my umbrella blind in a tree along a logging road/skid road, field edge, or other forest opening and wait for the parade.  Just need a place they frequent, and I'm nice and dry ...
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I do the same thing. My BEST HUNTING FOR EASTERNS has always been in the rain!
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Re: Rain???
« Reply #7 on: May 06, 2010, 04:01:34 PM »
The Ideal thing is for the sun to come out and warm up fast after a rainstorm !  They tend to be real active after the sun comes out.

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Re: Rain???
« Reply #8 on: May 06, 2010, 04:24:15 PM »
That's a nice bird on this thread! 

 


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