Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
11-29-2005, 09:32 PM
#21
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: Kentucky
Posts: 67
RE: Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
Kentucky for me. I live here and chase big gobblers all spring long. I run a small guide service and have excellent success. There are a ton of long beards and not a lot of hens. Birds can still be tough at times. Its not uncommon to kill a bird that weighs upwards of 27lbs. Big Easterns...doesn't get much better than KY.
12-01-2005, 07:10 PM
#22
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location: Fortson, Ga.
Posts: 23
RE: Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
Friend, how can you say Georgia is not a turkey state? I have taken 3 birds every year for the last 5 and all on public land. I think maybe you should go with someone that does make consistant harvest, before you give up on this great state. Remember it doesn't matter how good you are if there are no turkeys on the land. Scout, Scout, Scout and then Scout some more.
12-07-2005, 12:38 PM
#23
Join Date: Dec 2005
Location:
Posts: 18
RE: Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
I have never hunted turkey's in any other state other than PA. Thats why i am gona hafta day that it is the best state for turkey hunting. but i would like to try hunting them in other states.
01-15-2006, 11:20 PM
#25
Join Date: Nov 2005
Location:
Posts: 534
RE: Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
No real opinion on this, but I have to say that California has improved its numbers in the last 15 years big time, where now in some counties they are calling the turkey "natural nuisances". I find the numbers in the canyons where my ranch and my families other ranches are greatly increasing, since I and others been keeping the yote population in somewhat a check. An that too. California as well as other states have seen an explosion in predator numbers. I have to say though, those turkeys out here are well fed from my food plots, as well as the neighboring oat and clover fields.
01-16-2006, 06:12 AM
#26
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: PA
Posts: 1,689
RE: Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
Like some of you guys said there are lots of variables. If you go for challenge I love PA. If you just want to get into birds I love Kansas. Well then theres Nebraska.
01-16-2006, 06:28 AM
#27
RE: Whats is the best turkey hunting state?
Tennessee is awfully good ... Ive only been turkey hunting for about 3 years but we do have a lot of them in southern Tennessee and north Alabama ...me and my partner got our first double last year..
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