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Title: Snow
Post by: CJ1962 on April 27, 2014, 07:09:10 AM: In the NE corner for Turkey's. Anyone have any tactics for hunting in the snow? Right now all we can think of is driving around looking for tracks

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Title: Re: Snow
Post by: seth30 on April 27, 2014, 07:49:16 AM: Im having the same problem. Loojs lije my 2nd tag will be tag soup.
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Post by: Grizman on April 27, 2014, 08:01:46 AM: They are still roosting. We are almost at "white out" conditions right now at 3200 ft.

Give them about an hour after it quits snowing and they will get busy feeding.
Title: Re: Snow
Post by: CJ1962 on April 27, 2014, 08:30:55 AM: We are at about the same elevation. It started to let up, but now is snowing harder.

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Post by: PA BEN on April 27, 2014, 09:24:21 AM: At 7:20am 6 Jakes and one long beard walked along a creek line and stayed in one spot puffed up not strut and just stayed there, not feeding no hens. In about an hour they moved along the field line and into the woods. Not one gobble last night or this morning.
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on April 27, 2014, 10:02:34 AM: Had the same problem a few years ago on opening weekend. We woke up to 6" of snow up above Chewelah so we hopped down into town and hunted some state land that was lower in elevation with no snow and whacked great bird.

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Title: Re: Snow
Post by: CJ1962 on April 27, 2014, 07:20:41 PM: Kevin, we took your advice and scored. One of the guys in our group was on his 1st turkey hunt with a brand new gun and we called this bird in front of him at 8 yds. (https://hunting-washington.com/smf/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fimg.tapatalk.com%2Fd%2F14%2F04%2F28%2Fy8ama6uq.jpg&hash=9f264d33e649e3c76886416b5375ea22995a7b8a)

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Title: Re: Snow
Post by: Gobble Doc on April 27, 2014, 08:11:41 PM: I was in the snow also. I thought it would stop but the longer it went the less sound the birds made.
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Post by: Dan-o on April 27, 2014, 09:46:58 PM: Nicely done, Mr. G.
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Post by: PA BEN on April 28, 2014, 05:46:20 AM: Rain doesn't seem to slow down the breeding all that much, but that snow put the breaks on. Once the weather cleared it was game on.
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Post by: kevinlisa06 on April 28, 2014, 07:27:46 PM: Right on good for you guys!!!

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