All day spring turkey hunting

Looks like they want to try out an all day spring turkey season starting with a split season in May. Seems like too much pressure on the gobblers to me and a lot of folks road hunting looking for the birds out in the fields feeding before going to roost. It will mean less compettion for us early risers though as many will opt to sleep in since they have all day. I'am not sure If I like it or not.

No. I dont like it. Therefore its almost certain to pass.

Didn't it already pass? I thought I read it was already going to be in place for this year's season.
 
I like it. Opens up the opportunity to take the kiddo after school, just not enough time before. I just don't buy the "shoot 'em off the roost" theory. If a guy wants to limb bang one, he can do it anyway in the morning.
As far as shooting them on the way to roost, guys do that now, just in reverse. The sneak in before dark and bang 'em on the way to feed. been going on as long as turkey hunting has.
 
 

Bought my tag last spring and went out the first of May and got a longbeard- then found out Ct had opened the season a week or two earlier in April. Gotta read that darn book now and then.
  Dont think that opening early is much different than going out all day. The turkeys are mostly all bred and eggs laid before a season opens any way wherever you go.
   The numbers go up and down each year because of so many weather related issues that I really dont think hunting has much impact with them like it does with deer. A  very wet Spring here a few years ago really slowed them down for a while. Those late evening hunters would do the same thing by a roost early in the day - slobs is just slobs.

They were probably doing it all along any way- just no one hunting to see or hear it. Those kind of HUNTERS dont change. Who knows, maybe a legal guy or two around will actually slow it down for you guys. Used to hear the same thing about "them"  roost shooting in PA  40 years ago.

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Didn't it already pass? I thought I read it was already going to be in place for this year's season.

that was my understanding because i knew about it last year during turkey season and it noted that it was the 2011 season.
it's a double edged sword... it benefits the guys who can't go out in the morning before work during the week, but also benefits the jags who will go out and try to bust them off the roost at sunset

In favor also, I work 1st shift and Saturdays and have to mess with work schedule in order to participate in hunt. Looking forward to an opportunity to take long beard in afternoon without having to schedule vacation time off for the AM. hunt. Usually gotta dress for the cold and damp when in afternoon hours can go out in lighter outfit just less crap to deal with as for popping them out of the roost in the evening it just don't matter to me if they want to take the chance of shooting after shooting hours sounds to me like they would do this no matter what the hunting hours are anyway.Gonna go and be thankful for this freedom that we Americans have .                                                  

I hunt 1B and have for 37 years . All I eat are deer and turkey and that's all anymore seeing the grouse are all but extinct here. I know this is for turkey hunting BUT as you mentioned the deer herd. Cant help remember what what was told to us hunters about antler restrictions and why. I would safely say that 8 out of 10 hunters I know and talk too were not in favor of this even with a 25 dollar fine on mistake kills . OH and all that have turned themselves in for mistake kills were fined 500 dollars. I was careful not to drop a undersized buck and have not been one of those who were beguiled on that subject. This law we have has caused me to pass many borderline bucks and the ones that I did harvest were pretty respectable racks,but did not taste very good because of old age (like eating an old cow)In the past all my buck kills were usually 1 1\2 to 2 year old deer and tasted really good.(Never ate an antler and don't care about lining my walls with large racks) All this was about was timber and insurance companies big $$ They knew this would wipe out the deer herd with all the doe being removed by the hunters and the fawns by coyotes so where does the majority stand? All us hunters have a say in this why not poll us on what we want in stead of them telling us what we want!           

I don't have a problem with taking spring or fall long beards been pretty successful in this! Wouldn't mind going in the fall without having to schedule vacation or losing overtime just saying. Looking forward to it.

Um my bad please don't take my star away its the only one I got, meant to say spring previous post

Hey 09-
I completly agree- old buck tastes just like old buck. Horns are nice but not very tasty. When we see a nice one though the last thing we think of is- tender or tough?
I live in CT and we dont have all day Spring either- didnt know only about 4 states are this way. I do agree that in the Fall PM hunting around a roost is very productive and also wonder a bit about gross harvest but I still think weather influences the following years crop of birds more than hunting ever would.

Hey retired guy  We have been seeing a lot of great younger bucks running around our neck of the woods. Borderline legal and less than and I miss picking out a nice 6 point or 5 ya know. The quality of the harvest is very satisfying to my family. Verses the mind blowing antlers on the old uns. Personally I never care for old buck flavor maybe a kerosene marinade would help. As for the people who may shoot turkeys in a all day spring hunt from their roost after hours Im pretty certain they would do so anyhow. I remember about a dozen years back I was archery hunting on the gamelands roughly a mile south of lake erie in erie county and came across what could have been over 20 turkey carcasses all thrown in a ditch with their breast cut away. I was almost convinced this was done after hours probably even in the night for that many birds to be killed without them trying to escape. It wouldn't take much of this activity to decimate the turkey flock. So there are that sort out there. Just wish I would had seen the party responsible could have got a plate # but they were long gone. Awful to say the least !     

Second the motion.

I cannot for the absolute life of me figure out how and heck people shoot people every now and again while hunting. Aside from being completley  out of touch with what they are doing and totally ignorant of basic safety issues they are also completley incompetent.
 They feed the Anti hunting movement and Anti gun folks more that anything the die hard protesters could ever accomplish. This aside from the anguish they create within the family and friends of the victim.
  All too often we later hear that they are again afield and again involved in yet another " incident". They must be held far more accountable than they presently are. There was a Post about such a HUNTER recently and it has apparently yet to be resolved in the courts. I for one say one "accident" is too many and a second demands VERY harsh prison penalties.

09-
You cannot teach "common sense" and those perps - like the guy running up with the shotgun at ready are simply NUTS. Surprised he didnt shoot again cause he probably didnt even know where he was at the moment.
  Classes and school cant teach  some things  these wierdos go off to another place..You can learn from a book about swimming -but ya dont know a darned thing till your  in deep water. We all had BUCK FEVER at some time.  Guess for some it blinds them or something, Clearly they go out with the Enterprise to "where no man has gone before".

BTW -- Have had my hen call "stalked" in Gobbler season twice--   Cannot write what I said, would get dotted out. Hope it had some impact. Called "shock therapy"- they got a  good dose.
   Did notice one thing- both were lousy hunters. They came in real loud and fast straight to my calls-heard them coming long before seeing them- and i'm hard of hearing.. Had no idea what they were doing, you could see how excited they were to be closing on a Turkey-scarey stuff. They thought they could just run up to a turkey in the woods and shoot it. They had all the right gear though  like camo cloths, face mask, and seat so they had thought it through beforehand-but when they heard a BIRD they lost it.