This past year I killed a gobbler behind my house. He was decent 20 lb, 1' in spurs and a 9 3/4 in beard . But other than that I heard no gobbling besides that bird. And the bird had not been breeding, he had pretty much all his breast feather still on him. But before season I saw 4 longbeards together back behind my house. But when it came around gobbling time there was no gobbling going on around my house and in fact the bird I killed wasnt until the second week when the bird was first heard gobbling.My neighbor saw 3 longbeards and 2 hens together after season wasout though . But Imdont understand why the birds I saw before season and why the 3 he saw didnt gobble at all. And if there were hens down there why did my bird have nothing but full of feathers and hadn't been breeding. Me and my neighbor planted biologic and we have seen turkey tracks down by our biologic. Could anyone answer why these birds didnt gobble and if there is a possibility there could be more turkey on my land since we have seen the tracks in the biologic and maybe the hens had a decent hatching.
Thanks