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trkyspur
Jake
Joined: Wed Dec 08, 2004 5:27 pm
Posts: 30
Location: Norton, Va
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 Earliest gobble? I know that this subject comes up every year, but I think it gets everybody looking at the calendar and noticing that it actually is not that long until we can get out and hear a few gobbles. Personally, the earliest I have heard any gobbles were on Feb. 27.
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:31 am |
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MD TURKEY HUNTER
2 Year Old
Joined: Sun Jan 16, 2005 12:13 pm
Posts: 72
Location: WASHINGTON COUNTY MARYLAND
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when i lived in illinois, the turkeys gobbled all year. i was hutning coyotes with a buddy the 3rd week of january. it was 2 degrees and we had about 25 gobblers going nuts all around us at daybreak, i got it all on video. i have heard them gobble here the first week of feb a few years ago when it warmed up. in ohio where i bowhunt, i hear them all the time in november.
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:49 am |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am
Posts: 3800
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I do not think they ever stop gobbling for the fall or winter nowadays ...I have heard birds gobble every month of the year. A warm still morning in the winter is almost always puntuated by a gobble near a palce I duck hunt in...if you mean hard gobbling where they just keep it up and go for 30 minutes, it would be february when that starts usually, at least around here ...
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 10:49 am |
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Freddy
Boss Gobbler
Joined: Fri Dec 03, 2004 12:50 pm
Posts: 3138
Location: Goodview, VA
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Gobbling like they meant it (which I am sure the hens paid them no attention) is Feb 22nd for me.
I have heard them every month except August... probably not out there enough to hear one then...
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:10 am |
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Charliedog
2 Year Old
Joined: Mon Dec 20, 2004 5:01 pm
Posts: 96
Location: Crozet, VA
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Earliest was around 4:30 AM 
Actually I had two gobble at me nasty yelps last Sunday which was late January.
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:30 am |
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Gobblenow
Co-Owner/Dog Feeder
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 10:20 am
Posts: 3800
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I have heard birds gobble hard in the middle of the night, particularly on a bright full moon in late march or april. seriously charliedog.
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 1:02 pm |
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shopson
Longbeard
Joined: Fri Dec 10, 2004 8:00 pm
Posts: 204
Location: Greeneville Tenn
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My son heard two toms gobble a total of 14 times on the morning of December 27. I don't know if that's early or late!
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| Wed Feb 02, 2005 8:54 pm |
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Struttinbird
Longbeard
Joined: Sun Jan 16, 2005 9:03 am
Posts: 285
Location: Alleghany County
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I hear them gobble in the fall but not very often. Earliest late Feb.
Keep em Gobblin!
Struttinbird
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| Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:18 am |
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FlatLand Gobbler
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 8:46 am
Posts: 753
Location: Hampton, VA.
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I am still pretty new to the Turkey Hunting Addiction, but I will say that I saw birds strutting and gobbling in early March my first season. That was three years ago.
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"Turkey hunting, when you knock all the feathers off it, is a game of infinite variables, played on a field of unlimited dimension, against an opponent who doesn't know the rules and wouldn't play by them if he did." ...Jim Spencer
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| Thu Feb 03, 2005 9:42 pm |
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Neill
King of Spring
Joined: Sat Dec 04, 2004 8:30 pm
Posts: 988
Location: Lexington
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I heard two gobbles tonight just before dark where I live in KY....I hear them gobble hear just before dark occasionally throughout the year, but I've never heard a gobble in the evening during the season.
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| Fri Feb 04, 2005 11:11 pm |
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Diablo
King of Spring
Joined: Mon Dec 06, 2004 11:46 am
Posts: 832
Location: SC by way of WV
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earliest was late January...hunting ducks last day of season in SC.
earliest in the morning was way before 4am in WV...full moon...crazy experience.....coyotes screaming as well
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