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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: PA BEN on April 17, 2015, 03:23:22 PM

Title: Anyone else notice the birds shutting down today?
Post by: PA BEN on April 17, 2015, 03:23:22 PM: The birds have been pretty hot for over a month or so. Last night they roasted in a different roost and went a totally different direction. Not a lot of gobbling. Can't beg a gobble today. I have been watching the barometric pressure when the birds were hot and not. Rising or lowering quites them down.
The barometric pressure was dropping last night and today, the only gobbles last night was after fly up. Yesterday morning they were real hot. BTW, these birds haven't been messed with at all. So hunting pressure is out the door. Maybe nesting is in full swing and the hens are taking the Toms out of their nesting grounds. I know toms will bust up a nest so they can keep breeding the hens. :dunno:
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Post by: sneakyjake on April 17, 2015, 03:48:19 PM: Hell yes. Good early but they went mute the rest of the day. The only ones we heard talking later were the ones we shot up the days before. Called in 5 screaming jakes around noon whom obviously found their voice after I killed their poppa.
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Post by: buglebuster on April 17, 2015, 06:38:14 PM: This morning they were going nuts on the roost here, but silent once they hit the ground.
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Post by: PA BEN on April 17, 2015, 08:40:58 PM: Not one gobble tonight. :bash: Anybody else have the same. Pressure is still dropping.
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on April 17, 2015, 08:58:23 PM: Pretty calm down this way??????? :dunno:
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Post by: buglebuster on April 17, 2015, 09:34:37 PM: Quote from: PA BEN on April 17, 2015, 08:40:58 PM
Not one gobble tonight. :bash: Anybody else have the same. Pressure is still dropping.
You need to hunt where there's turkeys :chuckle:

Sorry had to :chuckle:
Title: Re: Anyone else notice the birds shutting down today?
Post by: PA BEN on April 18, 2015, 05:58:51 AM: I know you are being funny. I've hunted this area for 25 years for turkeys longer for deer. I seems that every year they shut up sometime during the first week. I'm blessed to have turkeys all around me and am able to watch them every day. Last year was the first year I started to pay more attention to their gobbling and the weather. I had a new phone that has a Barometer, it sures looks like when its jumping up and down or a pressure rising/lowering sharply they shut up. Hens too. Not one gobble this morning and the pressure is rising sharply. I could be full of it, but I have never really kept track of them like I have the past 2 years. Could be the moon phase thing.
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on April 18, 2015, 06:54:05 AM: I refer turkeys to being like elk a lot. Maybe figure out there menstral cycle and egg dropping and develop an APP then we will have them dialed in. :tup:
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Post by: wannabhntr on April 18, 2015, 08:08:10 AM: Could of very distant gobbles this moribund that was it for us.
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Post by: wannabhntr on April 18, 2015, 07:01:38 PM: Quote from: wannabhntr on April 18, 2015, 08:08:10 AM
Could of very distant gobbles this moribund that was it for us.
Just read my last post. Wow, not sure what happened. Should have said, heard a couple of very distant gobbles but that was it.
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Post by: HUNTINCOUPLE on April 19, 2015, 06:26:21 PM: Not sure what the barometer is doing or the estruss cycle of the hens but the toms were done fired up today!!!!!!!
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Post by: earlmarne on April 19, 2015, 08:08:08 PM: They sure were.Been silent on me all season til today
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Post by: Tom Tamer on April 20, 2015, 05:50:15 PM: Hens.