Great job getting some nice birds guys!! Your making KEE KEE KREW look good!
My season starts 4/10 and I am fired up! I went scouting Sunday and Monday in an area I have seen flocks before, I went in 30 min. after daylight and heard one gobbler on a ridge I know they roost and strut on.
Still 4 inches to more than a foot of snow on the north ridge sides, I'm pretty sure with in the next 2 weeks more turkeys will come into the area.
About 1 mile away I found 3 areas down by a creek I believe to be strutting areas but I'm not sure, they where covered in gobbler droppings a month or more old with only a very few hen droppings. I found 3 sets of gobbler tracks at least a a week old. The creek is surrounded by steep mountains and each strut area is located at a cut or easy access between the mountains.
I set up trail cameras on the gobbler ridge and at the middle strut area to see if any gobblers come into the area. I plan to check the cameras next weekend and reset them. The bad think about these strut areas if that is what they are is that there is one way in and one way out for hunters. A set up here could easily get ruined by another hunter, the ridge would be safer and a better set up area, wish me luck.
Anybody have a resource to more accurately judge the age of turky scat? After a month old I have no idea.