Turkey "Management" Paying Off....

[bearcatbaseball10]

Earlier this year I was looking through old turkey pictures and noticed a common occurance with our farm....when we were able to disc our food plots EARLY, we harvested almost double the birds. With that in mind this year, and the advantage to great early spring weather we did the work and waited for the birds to show.

I hung a camera over the plot with full intentions of getting some videos of birds strutting, but it turned out to be harder than I thought, stupid things would always follow the hens around . I was lucky enough to get these three videos...And not to mention there has been 2 birds harvested off this plot already this year, and 14+ in the last 13 years....hopefully more to come this year and upcoming years :way:.

4/5/12

http://youtu.be/5xnwOOHOn-Q

4/25/12

http://youtu.be/0tlp3CJVudY\

4/26/12

http://youtu.be/ILMXtJBERJM

With that being said, what do you guys do to prepare for the turkey seasons on your farm? Mowing? artificial dusting areas? foot plots? ect...

Good luck to those of you that have tags left!

 

[Liv4Rut]

We don't do anything. My dad does mow the corn stalks which I think helps a lot. One thing he did do just recently was our back 3 acre standing bean plot is now over run with tall grass in the beans. The birds still go out there but it sucks setting the blind up in the tall grass and the birds only go in it if it is dry. He took his 15ft batwing mower and mowed 3 strips right down the center of it. I am going to hunt it Friday night hoping the birds will use it as a strut zone. I can't imagine they wouldn't. We will see.

I always thought if a guy chopped corn stalks in certain areas to create strut zones it would work well. Or mow areas in alfalfa / grass fields where they could strut it would work out too if the grass is tall. In a normal spring it is not an issue but this year all the fields I planned on hunting have way too tall of grass.

 

[LoessHillsArcher]

If we get the chance, any big fields we burn and allow to green up before turkey season are dynamite for bird hunting. Particuarly fields that leave a lot of seed on the ground after the fire. We didn't do any of these burns this year though.