As is always the case for the state’s youth and general turkey openers, some gobbling was reported. However, the general consensus was that the hunting may have been slightly below normal with an abundance of henned-up gobblers. Of course, if you put enough hunters in the woods, some will encounter red-hot gobblers ready to run to a gun. Several of our hunt advisors, or their kids, have already put a turkey in the freezer. Here are the county turkey reports.
Coffee/Dale Co.: Bernett Jergenson reports, “As we start this year’s turkey season, it seems the weather just wants to stay cold. The week prior to opening day the weather kept all but a few gobblers from sounding off. As I do most of my hunting on Fort Rucker, there was very little gobbling. Hopefully this will change as the weather tries to warm up.
I had traveled a good 500 yards from the spot I’d been listening from at daylight just to get within working distance of the big gobbler that had pitched into the field 75 yards from the tree...
I eased the hammer back on my old single-shot 12 gauge and pressed my cheek to the stock. When the big mountain bird took the last-needed step, I dropped him. The second gobbler was checking out his...
The big public-land gobbler had covered a lot of ground and was now getting dangerously close to decapitation. I had pulled the bird from the creek bottom below and over a high ridge opposite my...
Every once in a while I find myself tangling with a bird that is seemingly reluctant to leave me but does it anyway. I’m not talking about the ones that give a few courtesy gobbles as they...
