Favorite Place in Georgia for Long Beards?

• Feb 27, 2008

• #1

K.E.B.

Member

Where in Georgia do you think has the most birds? I love to hunt around Columbus and the Alabama state line, also from covington to lake Oconee seems to be loaded. I've also been seenin a ton a birds up around Hiawassee. We got a state full of birds and just thought I'd get a little chatter started about some of your favorite areas. Not lookin for GPS coordinates just a little friendly conversation

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #2

hevishot

Banned

Taylor county gets my vote...

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #3

wack em

Senior Member

I dont care as long as im hunting!

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #4

ADDICTED2HUNTIN

Senior Member

any where i have hunted in west ga seems to have alot of birds, from north to south

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #5

Doc_Holliday23

Senior Member

SoWeGa... Blakely, Cuthbert, Ft. Gaines, etc. Covered up in birds.

I also hunt a good piece of property in Hancock.

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #6

Huntinfool

Senior Member

I typicall hunt three counties: Hancock, Morgan and Newton.

Hancock has, by far, been the best county for me. Morgan would be second and Newton is actually new for me so I'm hoping it'll be a good 'un.

But as I think about it, the property in Hancock is private and ONLY gets hunted when I go down there with my buddy who owns it. So there's no pressure and no competition.

Morgan is second. But that property is a hunting club. So there's always folks out there the first couple of weeks of the season. I'm sure that messes things up for a while. I can usually kill one bird a season off that property. But it's hard earned.

So I think, what you'll find is that it is less "where" the property is and more "how much pressure" it gets. I think just about any area in Georgia is gonna be good for turkey hunting if there's no pressure.

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #7

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Cane_Creek

Guest

Wrightsville, GA

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #8

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nmcc13

Member

putnam cty..

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #9

jbird1

Senior Member

Oglethorpe county seems to have rebounded some....just very spooky even on private land

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #10

ADDICTED2HUNTIN

Senior Member

jbird1 said:

Oglethorpe county seems to have rebounded some....just very spooky even on private land

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why is it spooky, i have some land in oglethorpe that i hunt but has very few birds in fact i didn't even hunt it last year, i haven't seen a bird down there in 2 years, although at the beginning of bow season i heard one gobble every morning for about the first 2 weeks of bow season

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #11

jbird1

Senior Member

I saw 2 gobblers in 18 year select cut(my lease on the south fork of the Broad river near Carlton) in early February and have seen lots of hen and gobbler tracks recently. Ours are roosting in old cedars...basically hollowing them out. They can basically hop in and out of roosts like penguins...silent

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #12

threadfin-nole

Senior Member

Harris, Troup, Chattahoochee, Stewart.
Ft. Benning is loaded with them.

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #13

WarEagleMatty

Member

best place

troup.....

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #14

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flatwoodsgobbler

Senior Member

The flatwoods and swamp bottoms of SE Ga.

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #15

kevincox

Senior Member

Washington county

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #16

G Duck

Senior Member

Flatwoods Swamp Gobblers are the most fun for me.

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #17

tbgator

Banned

Funny, I hunt 4 of the counties mentioned here.

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #18

palmettoswamp

Senior Member

My buddy has some land we hunt in Emanuel County that has some big ole easterns. His property runs along some small river. Love them gobbling GA birds!!

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #19

romeocadet08

Member

my girlfriend's grandparents (Mom's side of the family) have a 150-200 acre goat farm, cattle farm right outside of Oglethorpe. I ve deer hunted the property a few times over the years but i have never tried to chase the birds down there. Mainly because the times that i have visited has been during thanksgiving or Christmas. Her grandad has told me that "there are turkeys every where" plenty of times but i have never seen one. I have been down there on three different occasions...each time we stayed a minimum of 2 days.

Her Dad's side of the family owns a considerable amount of land ( 500 acres < ) in Toccoa, which is in Stephens county. I have never been down there but she told me that there "were like 50 of 'em in daddy's back yard everyday we woke up". Her and her brother made a trip down there over the summer for a weekend and she said that they saw birds everyday they were there.





I was really giving it a serious thought to go down and hunt one of the options listed above sometime this season.


Which place would you go, Oglethorpe or Toccoa?

Why?

Have you had any experience in these areas? How was it?

 

• Feb 27, 2008

• #20

HenryHunter

Senior Member

Only hunted a few places, Henry and Putnam counties and the ONF and have had good luck. Our club in Putnam does not seem to have the birds it used to due to all the thinning the timber company has been doing. Gonna give Pike county a try this year as well.