2018 Oglethorpe County Hunt Reports

[transfixer]

Went to the lease yesterday to check on things, looks like the hogs have been very active in recent weeks, lots of tracks, fresh rooting, actually smelled them a couple times but didn't see any, only one turkey on camera, didn't find any turkey tracks to speak of, anyone know if hogs cause turkeys to leave the area ?

Put out some corn to draw the hogs to a couple areas, set up cameras, going to try and go back this weekend, hoping to get on some before Todd E gets them all ,, lol

 

[Triple C]

We have awesome turkey habitat on my place and no turkeys. Never seen a turkey crash like this. Couldn’t sit in stand in 2011 - 2015 without being covered in turkeys. They are a rare sight these days. More quail than turkey.

 

[Arrow3]

We have awesome turkey habitat on my place and no turkeys. Never seen a turkey crash like this. Couldn’t sit in stand in 2011 - 2015 without being covered in turkeys. They are a rare sight these days. More quail than turkey.

I grew up right here. There used to be turkeys EVERYWHERE. Now, they are the exception and not the rule. Breaks my heart too because there's nothing I love to do more then turkey hunt. I know where there's a bird or two here and there but the morning a of hearing 7 to 10 are long gone I'm afraid.

 

[transfixer]

I had a few on camera last fall, but between Christmas and this past weekend, I only had one on camera, what do you think is happening to them ? yotes and hogs getting to the nests ? or yotes taking out the birds ?

 

[Todd E]

Who knows?

Chicken litter
Coyotes
Hogs
3 bird limit

One thing is for sure. Most all people overlook and do nothing about bobcats. Bobcats are serious turkey predators.


Transfixer... get you some TSC true hog feed, cracked corn, and a bottle of hog shine. Mix it in a bucket.

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

Went down and checked cameras Sunday. Had a good many birds on one camera and my other camera that had birds on it was taken over by hogs. No more turkeys in that area. I moved that camera and one other camera that I haven't had any birds on.

I'm with all of you on the decrease in turkey population. It's really strange and I wish I knew what was the true culprit

 

[Todd E]

Okay, who let my pigs out. LoL

 

[Todd E]

This was last picture taken. It was taken as I was on foot headed to trap. Blur on left is a pig headed into briars. When I walked up to trap, there was nothing in it but tracks. As I was looking around puzzled, I could hear the lil jokers grunting in the briars.

 

[Buford_Dawg]

Lol.....

That is frustrating and sorta funny at the same time. They made there get away as you approached. Good luck getting them this week. I bet they come back real soon. I hope to get down this weekend and scout a little and check on my camp. Gotta get camp ready to do some camping the later part of this month.

 

[jbird1]

The birds are hard to figure sometimes. A few years ago, my son and I rolled into camp and busted a hen off the roost.....20 feet from the fire bucket. She has a nest full of eggs. I'm thinking that hen was pretty smart and figured she'd snuggle the nest up close to camp to help evade detection from predators. She hatched those out as far as I could tell. This was before I was into the game cam thing but did get a video of the nest on my son's ipod.

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

Checked cams again. 2 of the 3 had good promising signs of some birds! I also have an abundance of Jake's it seems this year also. One picture showed 7 Jake's!

 

[Buford_Dawg]

Well, heard a bird...

I did hear one gobble Saturday AM on the roost. Not on my property, actually about 1/4 mile away, but it was nice to hear. Coyote hunted with eCaller on Friday evening and Saturday AM and no luck. But have lots of trail cam pictures of them. Just can't figure out how to kill one. Youth weekend for turkeys is this coming weekend. If you have a young hunter, get them in the woods early. Before the mad rush hits the following weekend

 

[Arrow3]

Checked cams again. 2 of the 3 had good promising signs of some birds! I also have an abundance of Jake's it seems this year also. One picture showed 7 Jake's!

You always have a bunch of jakes ?

 

[ADDICTED2HUNTIN]

You always have a bunch of jakes ?

No joke! I don't know why that is

 

[Buford_Dawg]

Well, I am officially looking for another club or ...

Some land to lease in the OC area, particularly north of HWY 78. But would look at below 78 as well. If anyone knows of anything, please PM me. Still have one club in the Sandy Cross area and would like to have another option close to it.

 

[Arrow3]

A buddy of mine called me today about lunch time and said he had some hogs in his trap and asked if I could bring a gun

 

[Triple C]

Arrow...That's a mess of pork right there! After 2 years of few turkeys I was surprised a couple of weekends ago with a couple of nice flocks roaming the woods and gobbling taking place in the bottoms. Son sealed the deal yesterday morning with a new decoy. Big enough to hide behind and had a tom on a bee line checking out the decoy.

 

[Buford_Dawg]

Looks like a good weekend...

Arrow, that is stacking them up. Somebody gonna eat good for a long time.

CCC, Congrats to your son on a fine bird. Good to see someone have luck.

I did hunt Saturday AM on my CC club, my lease runs thru turkey season. There were 5 of us hunting it, so it was tight, no one heard a bird. Which I figured.

A buddy of mine called me as I was coming out of the woods and invited me to run down to Siloam, so I took off and called in a large group of birds down there, but they would not commit. Wanted to stay in the edge of the field and not commit that last 25 yards Oh well, it was fun hearing some gobbling in late afternoon.

Still in search of a new club or land to lease if anyone knows anything, PM me.

 

[Todd E]

A buddy of mine called me today about lunch time and said he had some hogs in his trap and asked if I could bring a gun

I think I recognize that tree. LoL

 

[frdstang90]

I saw the most birds during deer season that I have seen in the 10 years I have been on this club so I was really looking forward to opening weekend. I only heard one bird Saturday morning which was a real let down. It was so smoky around our camp that it was hard to breath and I don't know if that had anything to do with it or not. Well we will give it another shot in a couple of weeks and hope it gets better.