How Will The

[4pointer]

Hard Rain & Wind effect have on the Birds,,, The weather is Callin for all that on Openin day ~~Monday,, Due you still hunt them the same way??

[hoosieroutdoorsman]

I would think the wind would play the worst role,,you may try it? I would think getting closer to the roosting area would be better, they may hang tight to thick cover to get out of the wind. Our season doesn`t open until 4-25.

[bigskyscott]

have to agree with Tracy.

They will stay roosted longer in cover... I know that in the mountains of Pa., we always found them in grapevine thickets and stands of hemlocks. When on the ground, they could be found in patches of laurel also.I guess the laurel breaks the wind when their on the ground. Whitetails do that too.
If I were you Larry, check out any pine thickets. Any break in the weather will bring them down from their roosts. If the wind dies down or stops and you can finally hear, try calling to them if you know where they are. They may not come to you right away, so be patient and just sit still and wait em out. They heard you and know exactly where you are.If you hear hens, try to match their calls and pull them in.... the gobblers will follow them like their on a string.
One time in Northern Pa., we had really rainy and windy weather.But I still could hear gobblers on their roosts at 10:30 in the morning. I got to within 300 yards of them and started calling. I had between 7-9 gobblers on their roosts above a grape thicket. Everytime I called, they ALL gobbled their stupid heads off !
This went on for about a full hour while they were still roosting that late in the day.
Unfortunately, when they finally flew down, a couple of them started heading my way, but got turned around by those darn hens that flew down at the same time and joined up with the Boss gobblers that were going in the opposite direction, chasing the
hens ! Females will do it to ya every time ... especially when you have been up on "The Roost" all night and morning !! ;D

One other thing, if is was raining all night and morning and it finally stops, it's likely the birds will be on or traveling to South facing exposures. They want to dry their feathers out in the sun and preen after a good overnight soakin.

My two cents worth.