RE: Public land blues
I hear ya. Like you, I've been making my annual spring turkey hunting rituals out to western MD. And for all but, this year, I hunted public land with the hordes of others--several of which were what you described and some were far worse. I finally have some private land to hunt now, but the turkeys weren't where they were in previous years and when we located them, they were right on the border to another farm--and that place was hunted all week long by some real idiots who obviously were clueless about turkey hunting.
We had fun and great weather, but came home without turkeys.