I hunt the same farm every year so things don't change much from year to year. The turkeys there roost and strut mostly in the same places each year. That is the advantage of hunting the same piece of property each season. I realize not everyone can hunt the same place all the time so that makes it all the more important to pre-season scout. My scouting consists of going out starting about 6 wks. or so before season opens and sitting in spots around the edge of the property where I can here good at daylight and listening for gobbles. I mark the spots I heard gobbles from on an aerial photo from Terraserver. When the gobbling quits, I try to get to a vantage point where I can see with binoculars and see if I can see birds strutting. All this is marked on the map or mental notes are taken to use later when the season opens. I check my aerial photo the day before the season opens and generally sit on opening morning closest to where I have heard the most gobbles. This type of scouting works well for me and by doing it from a distance, few if any birds are spooked. MTT