lbl turkey hunt?

[hoyt 09]

Can you hunt lbl with a gun during the 14 day season? Or is it bow only until the quota hunt?

[quackrstackr]

The quota hunts are before regular season. You can use a shotgun during regular season there.

[hollandhunter]

quackrstackr is right. An just my two cents worth but if you go to lbl you better be ready to put in the boot work and get off the beaten path because the birds next to the roads and easy access areas seem to have doctrines in turkey hunting. I had to get way back in the woods like 2 miles before I could ever work birds.

[hollandhunter]

I would not mind going back sometime though I just enjoy getting away sometimes from my spots here at home. I would like to here some other peoples success storys at lbl and unsuccesfull stories before I go back.

[quackrstackr]

The last one that I killed in LBL, I killed in the middle of the day and hadn't been out of the truck 20 minutes. 2 weekends before that, I walked a GPS'd 12 miles and heard one bird gobble right at daylight. Somebody beat me to him and killed him as soon as his feet hit the ground. You can never tell about LBL but it's no cake walk, for sure.

[NonTyp]

LBL can be and usually is tough. Those birds have had everything pulled on them but a knife! Last time I was there I heard one gobble at daylight and that was it for the day. I did kill a yote stalking my decoy set-up though.

[Semp]

The last time I turkey hunted LBL was about 3 years ago. Since they are not bonus birds, I don't make the trip down there as often as I used to. If a bird gobbles, assume another hunter will be heading to it. I've had some encounters over the years. Be extra careful.

With that Haint call on the market, I expect there will be some accidental shootings. I wouldn't use it on a public hunting area like LBL.

[wademup]

quackrstackr is right. An just my two cents worth but if you go to lbl you better be ready to put in the boot work and get off the beaten path because the birds next to the roads and easy access areas seem to have doctrines in turkey hunting. I had to get way back in the woods like 2 miles before I could ever work birds.

Even the ones in the boonies are above average tough Soft calling and stealth really seems to pay off in LBL. In other words I get bored with em and try to stick with the loudmouth dumber birds on the MC side of KY Lake

[hoyt 09]

THanks for the info guys I got drawn for 13th and 14th of april hunt I geuss I will be heading up that way to try it. While I am up look to see if I can find a decent hunting lease as well if anyone has any info on where to find a lease in christian trigg or lyon counties or surronding counties would be much appreciated!

[drakeshooter]

I got drawn in like 1998 or 1999, first quota weekend, hunted zero minutes and haven't been back. We didn't run into anybody else while scouting and had 3 birds in mind in the Bacon Creek area. We camped out Friday night and got $&!+faced drunk and passed out in the camper. I wake up just before daylight to what sounded like a convoy driving by our campsite. By the time I got to my first, then second, then 3rd spots, there were 6-10 vehicles up and down the road at each bird. The first shot I heard was 15 minutes before shooting hours and so I've never went back to those free for all quotas. If I ever considered it again, it would be a situation where I had run out of county birds to hunt and during the regular statewide season and like has been said, find the path less traveled.

BTW, I guess being from west KY I'm spoiled by an abundance of flatness, but LBL is some of the hilliest, roughest, thickest, deer tick infested land anywhere in places, that I've ever hunted.