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3toe
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High wind

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I am sure you guys have discussed this before, but being a new guy on the board I thought I would ask again.

Neither rain, sleet, snow, weddings or funerals will keep me from going turkey hunting. I have turkey hunted in lightning storms before. But high wind will sure enough make me stand there on the porch thinking if I am going. I have killed very few in high wind and I think most of them were the turkey gods smiling down on me for my persistence.

How do you guys hunt turkeys in high wind? High I mean 25+mph steady. I have on several occasions slipped an entire hunting club checking bottoms, thickets, creeks, fields, powerlines, and even dug out a couple fox holes to see if they were hiding in there. Around here they just seem to vanish altogether in high wind.

I sure would like to hear where you guys are finding wind turkeys and how you hunt them.
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With GA having one of the longest spring seasons in the county, if the wind is howling when I get up, I get back in the bed and catch up on sleep. Same with rain. I pick my days. Gil
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I hadn't had much luck in the wind either. I camp out on them in adverse weather conditions, it’s not the most popular way to hunt them, but it can be effective. I will use decoys a little more when it’s windy as well. Even when it’s windy a turkey is still a turkey and will spend the vast majority of the day on his feet eating, breeding, or trying to do both. Knowing that gives me a shred of hope that one will haplessly wander by me. I get limited days to hunt and my birds are far from my house I go no matter what the weather is doing.
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I haven't had a lot of luck in the wind either.. I do hunt in the woods when the wind gets howling. I figure that the turkeys probably wont be on the field edges when it is blowing. :turkeywave:
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If I am hunting a windy day, I find that I can slip around undetected more easily due to my sound being muffled and the general movement of everything in the woods. I also try to anticipate where I think birds might be and get upwind of them. Calling carries much better with the wind than it does against it, although hearing a response may be more difficult.

If no one hunted when it was windy, there would be no turkeys shot in the entire state of Texas.

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Slip hunt 100% for me when it's windy as described here. When I get a visual then I set up. Either that or I go home early and rest up for the next morn.
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wont waste my time in the high winds
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GLS wrote:With GA having one of the longest spring seasons in the county, if the wind is howling when I get up, I get back in the bed and catch up on sleep. Same with rain. I pick my days. Gil

Me TOO. Wind sucks.
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Yes, now that I have children and limited hunting days. Killed a great bird in AR last year in 25 mph winds. 90% of my midwest hunts are in wind.
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i love high winds! easy to sneak around in the woods. use a high frequency call on a windy day, get close to a tom and he ends up dinner.
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They are in fields and open areas more when the wind blows to rely more on their eyesight since hearing is diminished. In the hills I find them on the downwind side where the wind is less noticeable.
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I despise wind as well.. Nothing worse than getting up and goin out side and realizing the day befores wind has not died.

Hunting outwest and living in a noted wind vane back home you have to deal with it.. I do the same thing I do most every day but hunt slower, glass more, call louder and more frequently.

IME if you can find a gobbler on a very windy day he is feeling the same urgency as you are in finding a hen as you are in finding him and makes him pretty easy.. But the trick is lucking in to him.
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drenalinld wrote:They are in fields and open areas more when the wind blows to rely more on their eyesight since hearing is diminished. In the hills I find them on the downwind side where the wind is less noticeable.

This is my experience.
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If you know the lay of the land, wind can be beat.

take for instance, I grabbed my .22 on a really windy day to go check my food plots. Walked into the woods and when I got near a bowl on the far side of the woods, I noticed a flock of turkeys. Went and got my bow, and had them in my lap and missed a hen. shot clipped her wing feathers and deflected my shot as she zig zagged. Left, hour later, they were back in the wind break.


years before that, I kilt a good tom by hunting the far side of a woods. it was still windy, but nothing as severe as the other side. Gobbler was 40 yards and when he gobbled, sounded like 200 yards. he went with the hens, and I crawled down a ditch, crawled on a deer trail and smote that sucker at 20 yards...after hen alarm putted in front of me at 5 yards. I cut hard on my mouth cll, he walked and strutted into the deer path I was on and bang, flop.
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