3chunter
Senior Member
I have 26 seasons of experience. And I don’t think I am wrong. The majority of hens are bred last week of March and first few weeks of April in the lowcountry of sc. poults tell the story and the season starts 3/22 now. I was not in favor of moving the date back from 3/15 a few years back. But I know a few hunters that have never killed a bird without a strutter decoy. A group of guys I ran into last year told me they would quit without decoys. I asked one of them what’s the biggest spurs he has killed and he said he had killed 3 gobblers 3 years in a row opening week with decoys. The three he killed all had big spurs. He showed me a pic of one and it had 1 3/8 hooks. He said that was the smallest one. He happened to be messing around on his mouth call and he sounded like a sick half dead turkey. These boys couldn’t have called a turkey if it was born on a farm and locked in a barn. Most don’t have woodsman skills to sneak up on 20 birds early season in the southeast to be able to kill an opening week long spurred turkey.I think your thinking to much into it. if she don’t get bred it’s because no gobbler is there at all. SWGA they start breeding late February. Early March. Season is mid March toward the end. but what do I know.