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Other Hunting => Turkey Hunting => Topic started by: SpokaneSlayer on May 06, 2009, 03:13:30 PM

Title: Turkey's in the rain?
Post by: SpokaneSlayer on May 06, 2009, 03:13:30 PM: Go or no go?
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Post by: strutnrut1984 on May 06, 2009, 03:16:44 PM: go, they like to come out in the open during rain. it deafins there hearing in the woods.
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Post by: Machias on May 06, 2009, 03:18:12 PM: Definetly go
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Post by: bearpaw on May 06, 2009, 03:19:03 PM: turkeys will be out longer in light rain.....
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Post by: SpokaneSlayer on May 06, 2009, 03:19:17 PM: Cool! That's all I needed. Time to bust out the rain gear.
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Post by: tlbradford on May 06, 2009, 03:46:29 PM: Grassy fields and clearings like strutnrut said.
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Post by: Wayne1 on May 06, 2009, 07:44:35 PM: Looked out in my field tonight...rain coming down pretty good.. 1 nice tom had 8 hen's with him
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 06, 2009, 07:53:01 PM: Well, you can do it... but it may not be pretty.... :chuckle:
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Post by: Backstraps on May 06, 2009, 07:54:56 PM: :chuckle:
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Post by: parrydog on May 06, 2009, 08:00:17 PM: Holy cow are you sure that thing was alive when you shot it! :chuckle:
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Post by: sparksbr on May 06, 2009, 08:09:27 PM: Lol! I killed one last weekend that looked very similar to that one :chuckle:

I wonder if my taxidermist can reproduce that look?

Oh well...They all taste the same. Good Work!
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Post by: BLKBEARKLR on May 06, 2009, 08:10:35 PM: Oh that look is easy to resemble, just dunk it in some paint thinner
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Post by: carvermoe on May 06, 2009, 08:23:37 PM: I was wondering about the rain also
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Post by: sparksbr on May 06, 2009, 08:31:37 PM: :lol4:
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Post by: rut16 on May 06, 2009, 08:47:14 PM: Looks like he was half cooked LOL good job :yike:
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Post by: yelp on May 06, 2009, 09:40:24 PM: Try and keep dry..and when the rainshowers quit...one of my favorite times to be in the woods yelping. Hard rains will keep turkeys inactive sometimes they will roost midday..watching us idiots walk around the woods all soaking wet! :chuckle:
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Post by: Pathfinder101 on May 07, 2009, 08:32:15 AM: Quote from: parrydog on May 06, 2009, 08:00:17 PM
Holy cow are you sure that thing was alive when you shot it! :chuckle:

Actually that was CoryTDF's bird from a couple of years ago. After he shot it, it rolled down the hillside. The thing looked so horrible he had to take a pic... :chuckle:
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Post by: SpokaneSlayer on May 07, 2009, 08:34:46 AM: Well, no luck yesterday. Didn't hear a dang thing. Saw 3 while driving and nearly ran a hen over.
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Post by: Intruder on May 07, 2009, 08:47:10 AM: Quote from: parrydog on May 06, 2009, 08:00:17 PM
Holy cow are you sure that thing was alive when you shot it! :chuckle:

LMAO.... now that's funny :chuckle:

They're killable in the rain but they are tougher to call in my experience. I usually head for cover and wait for the afternoon break in the rain when the sun comes out and they get super active. Life's too short to sit in the rain :P
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Post by: turkeydancer on May 07, 2009, 05:42:11 PM: Rubbing against the wet brush starts penatrating their feathers ... they don't like that so they will head for openings. As mentioned it also effects their hearing (a main defense). And if windy, they can't rely on their other main defense (their eyesight) with the brush moving every which way.

Where most guys will head for the camp or motel, I put up an umbrella blind in a tree (over my head) along a field edge or a logging spur road and call softly and occassionally ... very effective too!
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Post by: robb92 on May 07, 2009, 07:37:52 PM: I was going to ask about this as well. been pissing down here for the past 4 days. Last time I went out and it was raining was back in 06 and it was dead quite in the woods, didn't see or hear a thing.
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Post by: Jekemi on May 14, 2009, 05:20:31 PM: Come on guys (and women). We sit outside in the wind & rain during duck and goose season. We sit out in the snow and wet during hunting deer. We can't handle a little rain during Turkey season? We live in the Northwest! :)
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Post by: bearpaw on May 18, 2009, 07:29:16 PM: congrats......