I do all my scouting from a long distance. I set on the highest hills (You can hear best from open fields) at daylight and dark a couple of weeks before the season when they have claimed their territories are gobbling good. You can hear them for a half of mile or more. You get in the woods with them and you can't hear very far and you train them.

I stay out of the woods and don't care about droppings, loose feathers, scratchings or where they were before they claimed their territory.

I just want to know where they are going to be roosting on opening day and I will be there.