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Prime turkey land/habitat
#4125656
05/02/24 10:31 AM
05/02/24 10:31 AM
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 20,193 Northport, AL
GomerPyle
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Impatient Stinky Britches Wearin’ Off-Roadin’ Guru
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Joined: Aug 2014
Posts: 20,193
Northport, AL
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what do you consider absolutely textbook perfect turkey land/habitat? Like, if you could snap your fingers and create a turkey hunting "Garden of Eden", what would it look like?
There are 3 certainties in an uncertain world:
1. All Politicians Are Liars 2. All Gun Laws Are an Infringement 3. Taxation Is Theft
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
#4125678
05/02/24 11:01 AM
05/02/24 11:01 AM
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Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 3,631 Spanish Fort
TurkeyJoe
10 point
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10 point
Joined: Mar 2016
Posts: 3,631
Spanish Fort
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Deep, oak timbered draws with corn, soybeans, and cattle on every ridge and hill.
Micah 6:8
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: TurkeyJoe]
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05/02/24 11:13 AM
05/02/24 11:13 AM
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Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 4,838 LASW
turkey247
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Feb 2011
Posts: 4,838
LASW
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Deep, oak timbered draws with corn, soybeans, and cattle on every ridge and hill. Park like oak timber? Nesting habitat? Poult habitat?
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
#4125702
05/02/24 11:51 AM
05/02/24 11:51 AM
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Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,884 AL
Gobble4me757
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Mar 2015
Posts: 4,884
AL
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Go no further than Jackson county 😂
2017 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion 2018 Team Aldeer Turkey Contest Champion
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
#4125707
05/02/24 12:02 PM
05/02/24 12:02 PM
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Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,901 Awbarn, AL
CNC
Dances With Weeds
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Dances With Weeds
Joined: Jun 2012
Posts: 21,901
Awbarn, AL
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Highly organic soil…….plenty of early successional understory with a proper mix of grasses, broadleafs, and woody structure……..mixed with some mature hardwood timber and open fields…….
We dont rent pigs
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
#4125714
05/02/24 12:13 PM
05/02/24 12:13 PM
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Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 7,570 Boaz,AL
CarbonClimber1
14 point
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14 point
Joined: Dec 2014
Posts: 7,570
Boaz,AL
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Gomer..id care to take a dare…most folks on here dont know…but my answer is…any land that has a source population….and consistent disturbance with fire and plow…and sunshine that can hit the ground…yall made fun of my pine puns…but they really are in my mind…the easiest to manage and control for a normal dude with a tractor an a disc…everbody loves big purty hardwoods…but they are a desert for wildlife if thats all there is…variety is the spice of life when it comes to wildlife…and even then becomes undesirable pretty quick without some kind of manipulation…but im just a dummy…a dummy with a slip clutch that wont come off🤷🏻
"I dont quit.. And ill fight alone if i have to"
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
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05/02/24 04:15 PM
05/02/24 04:15 PM
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Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 15,473 Ourtown, AL
BCLC
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Apr 2017
Posts: 15,473
Ourtown, AL
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The one thing most folks could do to benefit their turkey population is leave a 30-40ft soft edge around all greenfields and food plots.
We’re not dead. We just smell that way. Dayum. - AC870
Yessir! I’m always gonna shoot what makes me happy and I want everyone else to do the same! If you shoot one be proud of it and don’t worry what anyone else thinks. - SJ22
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
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05/02/24 06:54 PM
05/02/24 06:54 PM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 19,080 colbert county
cartervj
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 19,080
colbert county
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Mixed pine and oak ridges with cows in pasture and ESH adjoining both. Above the mixed timber mostly mature hardwood ridges
All encompassing about 10,000 acres with no pressure on that acreage.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: GomerPyle]
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05/03/24 08:03 AM
05/03/24 08:03 AM
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Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 19,080 colbert county
cartervj
Old Mossy Horns
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Old Mossy Horns
Joined: Feb 2007
Posts: 19,080
colbert county
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Seems they do gravitate toward creek bottoms, at leas the best properties I’ve ever hunted had big creeks.
“Socialism only works in two places: Heaven where they don't need it and hell where they already have it.” ― Ronald Reagan
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Re: Prime turkey land/habitat
[Re: Forrestgump1]
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05/03/24 12:26 PM
05/03/24 12:26 PM
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Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 5,217 South Alabama
gobbler
12 point
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12 point
Joined: Apr 2000
Posts: 5,217
South Alabama
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Diversity is key, looks to be majority of hardwoods and not pines gobbler. Diverse yes!. But while there is a lot of hardwood, it is not the majority. There is 990 acres of hardwood or natural pine/hardwood. 1,560 acres of pine (some longleaf, some loblolly, some young, some older and thinned), of which there is 630 acres of open quail woods. The diversity key is also to have some of everything, all over!
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