The last ten flydowns I observed, as I can recall, went North, North, West, Southwest, North, South, South, Southwest, West, South. As I ponder this factoid, I am amazed to also realize that I cannot recall a flydown to the East, in all the turkey hunting I' ve done!! I' m not saying they don' t, and I tend to agree with BG2 that the attribution to Primos simply repeats an old wives tale, and that my experience is a statistical anomaly, but when I started recalling all the birds I' ve seen fly down, and realized I' d never seen ANY fly down to the East, I was amazed!!


I just remembered a hen that flew East!! Whew!! (She went to a gobbler already on the ground, and may have been spooked, as I' m pretty sure she spotted me, based on her sharp putts, rather than tree yelps before flydown. She was only 25 yards away as it grew light.)