For those who think the rain hurts the hunt

[KYLimbHanger]

It has rained here all morning long. Just got a break and now sunshine and partly cloudy skies. Just got a call from my hunting partner doing some recon work out on a farm we hunt on. He glassed two seperate flocks: one flock of 3 hens and a strutting and another flock of 6 hens and 3 strutting gobblers. Just goes to show you how the rain seems like it spoils the hunt, but, hang in there guys. Even though rain might be forecasted, make it to the turkey woods/fields.....it's mid April in KY, where else would you rather be?

[atoyota4x4]

Thanks for sharing. Gives me a little more hope for Saturday. I was considering holding off Saturday morning, but I think now I will just get out there and see whats happening.

[jeff-ward]

i dont mind rainy days, just go to the feilds...
ive had alot of success on the worst of days in them..

[P. Beyer]

They love a light/moderate rain. Two years ago thats how I got both Birds, on just such days.

[cliner]

Hit the feilds, as long as the wind isnt blowing 40 mph...

[turk2di]

But for those of us that dont have fields, we will jus do R best;)

[KYLimbHanger]

But for those of us that dont have fields, we will jus do R best;)

Logging roads, powerline strips, creek bottoms, .... basically anything that has openess to it. I use to hunt alot of powerlines and loggin roads back in hill of eastern ky when I was a boy.

[lab]

keith meador and I will be set up on a road bed first thing Saturday morning in hopes of spoiling a very vocal two year olds morning. If that does not work out, we will be heading to a clover plot that some birds have been frequenting as of late.

Fields are a definite if your area has them. Birds will hit those fields for better visiblity during those rain showers and also when the rain stops and the sun comes out in an attempt to dry out faster.

[RutNBuck]

i was just listening to NOAA and they said that chance of rain in NKY for saturday was 70% and get this a chance for SNOWWWWWW...
and sounds like the weather isnt gonna be favorable until next week that figures....oh well makes the tough get tougher and weaker stay in bed...just trying to decide which class im gonna be in..haha rain,sleet,shine i'll be out there

[kyvahunter]

I had scouted this flock of three gobblers for several days during the season last year and when I woke up on the day I decided to hunt them and had roosted them the night before, It was raining hard. I went any how. As i climber the side of the mountain in the dark pouring rain to near where I had rooste them I second guessed my efforts but decided to keep on trucking. A little after sunrise and a while after the toms shoulf have been gobbling I got a bit depressed. All of a sudden a loud crack of thunder boomed and they sounded off right after it... As i crept over the ridge I saw them, still roosted. To make a long story short...I saw the hens with them and all four, not three gobblers pretty close. I didnt get one, because i had to leave for class and got hurried, but I know for sure from that hunt that the rain is sometimes a friend and not a foe. Don't give up.

[BowHunter!!]

I killed one of these bird in the pouring down rain and the other in a slight drizzle last year. Rain never effected either of them any.

[cornbread]

I took these two in a light rain at Fort Campbell a couple years back.
http://www.americasoutdoorsman.com/LRGC-trophy-shots/albums/userpics/normal_scan.jpg

[tomcbigbucks]

I always see a lot of birds in the rain they just don't seem as vocal to me. Anyone else notice this?

[UKDucks]

I'm concered that tommorow's rain is a bit much... downpour all morning and 22 mph winds. I think march and april got mixed up this year.