I see turkeys everywhere I go. In garrett I can remember seeing a flock of at least 150 birds in a friends back yard which was like a two acre field honestly it was probably a lot more birds than that. But that was in like 97 i was like eight. im 22 born in 91. I think you'll connect on savage and you will for sure enjoy the views and scenery. It's such a big place, this areas not bad at all for pressure.

If you are accurately shooting 20 and 30 yards you are ready. When I go I'm using ground blinds instead of tree stands to get me closer, I have shoot through mesh so they won't see what hit em. I'm glad to hear your dad got in on some nice land down there, awesome he was seeing lots of them really gets me pumped. Remember when our regs book had a sika on the cover like six years ago? I've been wanting to hunt them ever since. It's sad that I live here and the furthest I've ever went downstate was Baltimore. So I've never seen the bay or any of that
My first bow was a bear plain black I wouldn't even call it a compound because they were just simple wheels on the ends. Very simple bow. It was big too probably four feet tall. Lol it had no peep sight but that didnt matter because the draw length was 5 inches behind my ear so I just had to shoot instinctively. I killed my first doe with that bow. After I had my first kill an older guy gave me a pse nova because he was switching to crossbow. I feel comfortable out to eighty yards with it now several years later.
If you have a newer bow and practice all the time you shouldn't have a problem shooting out to 50-60 yards by the end of the summer. It's more working that archers muscle and creating muscle memory. Focus on form formost. Draw back the same way every time, push and pull equally. If you don have a kisser get one because that took me from 60 out to 80
Early season we'd get all the nice stags, sept.7 I think is opener?