EAST TEXAS HOG DOGGERS FORUM

How many of y'all are stopped by Turkey season? Blows my mind. Just as we get the dogs in good running shape in Feb. and March we have to lay them up for turkey season.

Man I’m so glad we don’t have more turkey. I guess we just have too many hogs, yotes, and bobcats for them to do well. The food and water is plentiful and the cover as well. They’ve released them numerous times but they just never get going. I think people also factor in. Now if the hogs, yotes, and bobcats would just start impacting the deer like that.


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We aint completely shut down but a whole lot of what we can hunt is shut down by turkey season some places now dont want you on there 2 weeks before turkey season crazy to me

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It’s all about the money. These land owners want to charge crazy prices for leases. These ignorant city slickers will pay it and they have no clue about nature or how one thing impacts another or doesn’t. So because of the ignorance they don’t want anyone to mess up their chance of killing game on their over priced lease. If they understood things they would understand that what we do benefits them way more than harms them. Just my 2 cents on it.


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I have had turkeys in tree right above dogs baying just steady gobbling I dont know how they think we running them off

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I wouldn’t want anyone hunting a day or two before I knew I was going to for fear of changing patterns up that I might have scouted, but it wouldn’t be for fear of making them leave. If I loved hunting them that much I sure wouldn’t want predators in there that would impact my population.


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Last year I didn’t think about it and not knowing I hunted right thru turkey season on public land. Now I’m gonna ease back so I don’t get a dog shot or a fine. Year before last I was on a small place, as I got to the end of the property, my male jagd and that heideterrier were hustling around about 50 yards away in some tight brush. I heard a weird noise and a turkey gets flushed, that jagd was pretty birdy. Well they go right back to the same spot, when that jagd starts screaming at the top of his lungs, now it’s on, he found a boar laying in those briars and got smashed by him, the female tried to play catch dog and got tossed. None of that has anything to do with turkey season I guess, just got me remembering an exciting brief moment with a turkey involved..

I’ll see my way out.

Cajun how long is y’all’s turkey season?

I’m disappointed Hollowpoint. I thought you were a rebel!


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We dont shut down here completly but loose a lot of spots to go. It is even worse when the Osceola turkey only lives in one part of the country. It is a huge money grab here it is out of control.

Funny story there was a guy guiding turkey hunts here. He was setting out tame farm raised turkeys and charging people for Osceola turkey hunts. He did a boatload of hunts and no one could tell the difference.

That’s what I mean. Those city slickers just gobble it up!


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t dog, I’ve been a rebel most of my life and it’s gotten me nowhere good. My goal is to keep out of the wardens cross hairs, so far I’ve been doing just that. Not that I’m doing anything illegal, but there are a lot of rules regarding the public land.

Lol I’m just picking bud. I don’t think any of us want to be in the wardens sights.


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Yeah I know, the warden in charge of the county I spend a lot of time in seems to be the sort of fella looking to make a name for himself too. The couple times I spoke to him, I got the feeling he didn’t care for our style of hunting. I may not consider myself a rebel in my old age, but I will wear the badge of nonconformity with great pride.