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Post by drgibby on Jan 2, 2024 8:12:04 GMT -5
Hernando county Attachments:
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Post by Stumpy on Jan 2, 2024 8:30:55 GMT -5
Ugh...you just made my heart skip a beat! |
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Post by walkerdog on Jan 2, 2024 8:47:42 GMT -5
Saw some last week. All toms and jakes in the bunch. Two were white headed.
Sorting out the pecking order for this year’s breeding season.
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Post by cracker4112 on Jan 2, 2024 10:21:16 GMT -5
Strutters on cam down here in manatee county the last couple weeks.
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Post by pinman on Jan 3, 2024 13:13:25 GMT -5
 Strutters? Did somebody say "Strutters"?!?!?!?!? |
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jan 3, 2024 15:03:43 GMT -5
Heck yea! Time to go to all the quota hunt WMAs that you DIDN'T get drawn for and practice your turkey calling.
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Post by meateater on Jan 3, 2024 15:53:42 GMT -5
Heck yea! Time to go to all the quota hunt WMAs that you DIDN'T get drawn for and practice your turkey calling. i like to practice my run and gun style then see how many i can call into 10 feet before jumping out screaming got you father mucker,, dinner island and allapatta flats are 2 great areas to hone your skills before the season starts. |
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jan 4, 2024 7:40:11 GMT -5
Be sure to crank up the volume on them calls, call loud and frequently, just like they do on YouTube. Trust Me, it helps.
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Post by JS84 on Jan 4, 2024 8:16:27 GMT -5
East or west of 19 Dr?
I'll be riding around on my Ebike with my Bluetooth speaker playing recorded sounds from Texas mountain lions. Going to normalize them to the cats before season starts!
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Post by rayi on Jan 4, 2024 17:57:50 GMT -5
Saw some walking opposite side of swamp today at Grove Park
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jan 4, 2024 20:08:43 GMT -5
Spot Burner! Lol
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Post by meateater on Jan 5, 2024 10:52:18 GMT -5
gonna take my mullet rifle out tomorrow morning , do a little jigging in canal as i walk some dirt roads in the wma i got a permit for. still early for hardcore scouting but see if birds are in this area and maybe get a speck or six.
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Post by One Man Gang on Jan 5, 2024 11:44:56 GMT -5
Uh, Meat? That's called a canal rifle.  |
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Post by drgibby on Jan 6, 2024 6:48:59 GMT -5
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Post by swampdog on Jan 6, 2024 8:55:06 GMT -5
Always enjoy watching them. They are more interested in their strutting for each other at this time. Hens are more interested in feeding. Once they determine who’s boss the gobblers should separate. However, I’ve seen subordinates trail behind the dominant birds all season.
This is my anecdotal thought, and not science that I know of. Many times the birds are related and will get along for the most part. The breeding will kick in shortly and most of the hens hopefully will be bred before the season opens and the gobs get taken.
I need to pattern a new Browning o/u 20 to see what it likes, for this season. Have my mixture of loads ready to go. The clock is ticking…
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Post by drgibby on Jan 7, 2024 7:20:08 GMT -5
Swampdog, I agree.
In the next few weeks, you can actually start to tell the birds apart by the broken fan feathers. Once the scrapping begins.
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Post by wildman on Jan 7, 2024 7:28:12 GMT -5
It's going to be over before season starts. Everyone should just turn their quota permits back in to get pref points back. It won't be worth applying for reissues either....  |
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Post by flconch53 on Jan 7, 2024 16:45:28 GMT -5
Saw a big flock in Hardee County this AM.
Mostly all long beards. About 50 yds from Rt 17
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Post by meateater on Jan 8, 2024 10:43:27 GMT -5
2 hens, 1 group of jakes, small 2 inch beards 7 of them in group, 1 gobbler strutting and walking down the middle of dirt road at 9am. 20 oscars,10 ciclids,1 peacock,4 largemouth,4 gar. not 1 speck. part of big cypress saturday morning. went thru 10 beetle spins
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Post by cracker4112 on Jan 10, 2024 9:46:41 GMT -5
 In camp. Lol |
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Post by meateater on Jan 10, 2024 10:07:47 GMT -5
crazy birds, sometimes it seems so easy to kill one then other times it seems impossible. few weeks back took the grandkids salamander hunting up in the smokies, while turning over rocks in the creek 25 birds walk by us at 30yds, mix off gobblers ,jakes,hens. if i could only hunt 1 animal it would be turkeys. |
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Post by JS84 on Jan 11, 2024 8:42:13 GMT -5
Watched 11 birds last night (9 hens 2 toms) at sundown just west of the Suwannee in Dixie feed around and fly up. One of the toms had a nice beard that looked a foot long at 100yards. Has to be a big beard.
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Post by Crkr 23 on Jan 11, 2024 11:03:57 GMT -5
I saw a flock of at least 12 gobblers last Friday. They were on hwy 26 on the Alachua county work farm land. I bet it's going to be interesting when them boys start figuring out the pecking order.
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