Let me set this up, I called in a mature gobbler last spring and took the shot at about 25 yds and rolled him over. In fact I knocked him over and down into a 8 foot deep drainage ditch that I had no idea was behind him. I was set up in an area that I have never hunted before. I couldn't beleive after the shot he wasn't lying there because I could hear the wings flapping like crazy. I go over to where he was standing and there are feathers and blood on the ground. As i stood there all of a sudden out from the ditch he he comes running like he was shoot out of cannon. I fired again at him and he rolls again, not sure if I hit him or if he just stumbled. He runs thru some thick low hanging eastern cedars when I lost sight of him, never to be seen again. I went back to the drainage ditch and there was blood, feathers and what looked like part of his waddle on the rocks. Clearly he was hit but not good enough. Is there certain things a tom has a tendency to do when hit, hiding places, etc. There are plenty of articles writting a tracking wounded deer but I don't ever recall seeing any on wounded birds. I'm sure that bird died at some point either from the shot or a predator got him. My question is........ I have never had to track a tom like a wounded deer that I know how to do but how does one go about trying to find a wounded bird?