I've been keeping an informal eye on the posts, PM'ing a few other hunters and comparing with my experience here in Mass, NH and NY. I had one bird to work the third day of the season in Mass and got him. I've heard one mid-morning gobble since. We heard some on the roost in upstate NY the first week and I tagged the only bird we worked there. Now I'm hearing that they're quiet, too. I have yet to hear a gobble in NH. The PA hunters have had the same experience, nearly state wide.

Seems like a combination of late nesting and still henned-up birds (although I've seen lone hens almost every day), and some natural selection (gobbling birds are getting shot, eaten, or harrassed, especially by coyotes here). But remarkably consistent, all the way out to the midwest.

I shot skeet yesterday evening. Our field is surrounded by woods and we had one gobbling as we finished up, about 20 yards behind the low house. He must have been watching us shoot and decided he was pretty safe. You can't make this up...