Blinds & turkeys

[Tacomaboy25]

If you can pick and choose the days you can hunt than warm, calm, sunny days would provide you with the most vocal/ active birds and exciting hunt. For me I have found wet windy days provides for usually a lack luster hunt and a wet bird doesn't make for as pretty a picture. Unfortunately for most you got too hunt when you can and a shelter option can make the best of it in the worst of it.

Lucky for me I can pretty much make my own schedule at the farm so the only time I'd be going out in bad weather would be on weekends with buddies.

[cantgetright]

A horny tom is a horny tom. What doesn't work one day may very well work on him the next. I've called to a tom who had several hens and jakes with him, he would respond but not come in to me. After an hour I moved 150yds further from him along the bush edge, started calling and the whole works of them came to me in under 10 minutes

[410001661]

I've been debating whether I will use one on rainy days or just not go out. I'm leaning towards not going out if the weather is bad but that my change depending on how successful I've been.

Rainy days are good for turkey hunting (see my above post......that is one soggy Tom).

[genec]

Rainy days are good for turkey hunting (see my above post......that is one soggy Tom).

I have had good luck in open fields on rainy days.
i felt that the rain forced turkeys out into the open areas more because they couldn’t hear predators as well in the woods due to the rain - just my theory anyway, but it paid off on many rainy days.

[Tacomaboy25]

Rainy days are good for turkey hunting (see my above post......that is one soggy Tom).

Good to know!

[Tacomaboy25]

A horny tom is a horny tom. What doesn't work one day may very well work on him the next. I've called to a tom who had several hens and jakes with him, he would respond but not come in to me. After an hour I moved 150yds further from him along the bush edge, started calling and the whole works of them came to me in under 10 minutes

My buddy has had similar experiences.

[rippin_355]

Not according to the biologist I worked with during the trap and transfer here. We fed a spot out in a wheat field during the winter. We put shelled corn down for several nights in a row. We had to put a large branch near the corn, stuck into the snow. The bio said turkeys have no memory, and need something to orient to. Without the branch, they would not find the corn each morning.

Would that not be remembering? Using an object as a reference. Recognition is memory.

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[smokin'stoegie]

There must be some type of "learned behaviour" that one could say it was "memory" . Not wanting to argue the point though.

As far as blinds go I'm sorry to say that as I get older I am getting somewhat softer. Nothing beats a blind in a windy, rainy day.
I have a busy teenage boy and I really enjoy the very few days I get to hunt with him. The blind guarantees he'll still want to go out on those crappy mornings.

[ben1983]

You should watch "My life as a turkey". Turkeys do have a memory. They recognize things that are out of place. If a blind has been there for a while it just becomes normal to them. A horny Tom or Jake is less likely to care if they think they can get some "action"!

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i watched it after i read this. i think they imprinted more on him then he on them