I hunt the Rocky's and here the Merriam turkeys are at around 8,000 in the spring and they go lower in the fall to avoid the deep snows and find food. They move about a mile or so depending on their location, to and from their spring and winter habitats. Your turkeys will most likely do the same.
Turkeys use their feet to move the leaves as they look for acorns and other food they will do this where ever they find food even in the roost area, if you have found a large area 25 ft. or more with the ground really chewed up they will return. If you see or hear turkeys before 10 am or after 4pm (depending on your sunset) they are relatively close to their roost.
Go into the area at a high point and use a coyote locater call to locate the roost at dusk or dark early morning when you do either stay high and watch them fly down to pinpoint the roost or mark it and go in in daylight to pinpoint the roost. Then pattern them, Turkeys roost in the same general area if not the same tree. Then you can look at maps keep an eye on the turkeys and find their spring habitat and you are ready for next fall.
Toms and hens make similar sounds, hunter specialties web sit has some sounds you can listen to, hens yelp all day in the fall and spring while the toms fan out and vocalize little in the fall. The fall group will split into smaller bachelor groups and come spring larger groups will come together. Read the turkey hunting tips section and you will learn much.
If you are in a farming area the turkeys will frequent soybean, corn and other fields winter and spring on a daily basis, find their field and you found one place to hunt them, find the roost and you have two places to hunt, now find their travel rout and strut zone. The strut zone may well be the field.
Good luck
Last edited by RockyMtnGobblers; 01-29-2011 at 04:56 PM.