Several years back I wanted turkeys on my property in the worst way . At this point I regret that and now know why you Texans call them corn buzzards. They have become quite the nuisance and literally run deer away. I’m going to try hard to shoot several this spring. But is there any good deterrent in the short term while deer season is still open. Thanks in advance.

Take away the corn and they will most likely leave to a neighbors that has the corn, but that is not what you want for the deer. hunting

What I hate on my place there is the corn buzzards are there in the Winter but not many around in the Spring. The place I have been hunting in Texas not often are they on it in the Fall but plenty of them for the Spring season.

they do spread out come spring but we still keep quite a few around the place...

My place now is pretty thick timber, 25 year old oaks, along a creek. When 20 acres were in soybeans and open field there were plenty of turkey birds buy a half acre food patch isn't enough open for them in the spring with some big fields with big timber around them 3/4 mile away.

My place now is pretty thick timber, 25 year old oaks, along a creek. When 20 acres were in soybeans and open field there were plenty of turkey birds buy a half acre food patch isn't enough open for them in the spring with some big fields with big timber around them 3/4 mile away.

Come to bama and u won’t have that problem. Our good ol days are over in a lot of places. Don’t get me wrong we still have pockets of good numbers but not like it use to be.

Our Hey day for turkey numbers was in the 80s when soy beans were in about every opening that could be planted. Now many of those fields are in pine trees, the habitat change made a lot of difference in the turkey numbers around my place. I did set out oak in 12 acres that were bean fields on my place but in that swamp beavers would have cut down the pines if setout along the creek.

In the 80s to early 90s going out in the spring and killing a turkey was pretty easy. If I wanted a turkey I went and killed one, now same area on a good crisp clear Spring morning i might hear a couple gobbles.

Yep same happened here. Nobody really knows why some areas seeing less but clear cutting timber at a higher rate than it’s being replaced plus all the land that use to get planted are catfish ponds with nothing planted now. Hardly drive areas and see turkeys in fields where u use to. Between the two the crops not being planted may have more to do with it.

Hello Joedav31, if you need any assistance with in trying to get one or two of the turkeys off your place let me know. I could use some turkey tacos this Spring!