older gobblers and big trees?

[bogobble]

I've always heard the older gobblers are bad about scratchin around the base of big trees. is this a fact, or just an opinion?

reason I'm askin, since I can't find any turkeys on our lease this winter(first time in humpteen years) I went down to lagle lake, which is waaaayy back down in the sticks. my F-I-L has a camp down there. we rode down there on 4-wheelers yesterday, and we found a good bit of turkey scratchin right along beside the lake, with most of it being around the base of large oak and pine trees.

IMO- this is bein made by 1 maybe 2 old gobblers, because there's not enough scratchin for it to be very many turkeys.

have ya'll heard the same thing? is it a fact, that the gobblers are the ones that do this?

I'm goin back down there probly sunday evenin and stay the night in the camp. I've already picked a spot to put my blind, and I'm goin to set it up around 1:00, and then slip back in it right before dark, ans see if I can here em fly up. I think their roostin around there close.<img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle>

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Bo,I've heard the same thing and to tell you the truth I dont know for sure!Our birds in my general local are opportunistic feeders!Where they find the food is where the scratchin is at.We have alot of scrub oak and manzanita thickets and I've seen these thickets tore apart almost like hogs have been rootin in there only to find a large flock of turkeys had been feeding there!I like your assessment though a few birds this time of year could very well be a group of gobblers!!

Monarch isn't a butterfly it's the King of the Spring!

[bogobble]

that's what I was thinkin Bob, there's not all that much scratchin, so I know it ain't a whole flock of turkeys. and I've heard those older gobblers are bad about stayin to theirselves. I wished I'd have thought, and took a little corn down there the other day, and scattered it out, that would have kept them in that spot till I could have gotten down there to hunt em

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