I know it's a controversial topic but it does open up discussion on tactics in different parts of the country. Open fields of Midwest, pine plantations and swamps of the Southeast, open meadows and thick draws of the West, thickly forested hills of the East/Northeast, brush country of Texas.

We have so many large pine and clearcut tracts here in Alabama that we can use some tactics otherwise employed in more open states. We locate birds often times by standing on the edge of some clear cut and calling loudly across the cutover or down into hardwood bottoms. Because of the cutover you can often hear multiple birds within a quarter mile or more from you.