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Button Buck
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I'm pretty new here so this may have been asked before?
I do well out west with birds on the roost but in Georgia they pee in my corn flakes alot.
I probably take about 20-25% of my birds in Georgia off the roost and roughly 70% after 9:00 a.m.
The other 10% are afternoon birds.
I just wondered how everyone else does?
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I would have to say for my friends and myself here in central pennsylvania that most of our success is before 0800. However, anyone who knows PA Longbeards knows that early morning as very tough and requires a lot of patience. Our turkeys are, if nothing else, very very stubborn and often henned up. In my experience, my easiest and most exciting hunts have been after 0900. My favorite tactic is to go to a known strut zone and take a nap. Rather than going back to camp and sleeping the morning away like so many hunters do after the gobblings tones down, I sleep in the woods. Not a deep sleep, just cat naps. I periodically wake up and call, and more than a couple times have found a late morning gobbler strutting his way towards my setup. Hope this helps.
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after lunch, when the hens go to nap
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Button Buck
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Our birds are pretty stubborn too. In fact most Easterns I mess with are stubborn. Fortunately, so am I..
I have done well with late morning birds between 9:00 and noon and rarely leave the woods before the noon hour.
To an extent I think its about putting your hours in looking for that encounter that pays off. For sure if I left the woods after dealing with birds on the roost or at 9:30 I wouldn't have killed nearly the amount of birds that I have.
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I have taken all of my gobblers within the first couple hours of shooting light. Which here in PA is from 530 am until 9 am. I have yet to encounter a gobbler between 10 am and the noon stopping time.
The trick to being sucessful is to locate the birds the night before when they are on the roost, then get in there early the next morning and setup 100 yds or so from the roost.
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Afternoon for me, I am at work when they are still sound asleep.
Joshua 24:15 "But as for me and my household, we will serve the LORD.”
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I have my Lifetime GA license. I'll be there during April to hunt. Most birds I have gotten there are towards noon, go figure.
In Alabama I got them soon after they got off the roost.
In Missouri, again like Georgia, more towards noon.
Finally, In NJ, it is just like GA & Mo, late morning:
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I have killed majority of my birds between sunrise and 9:00am but his year with the early hot weather I am going to change my tactics
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Got this guy this year at 0635 HRS:
http://www.mossyoak.com/forum/Topic53198-18-1.aspx
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