need help on locating birds!!
03-20-2008, 01:05 PM
#1
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: Tennessee
Posts: 23
need help on locating birds!!
Me and my father just recently leased a 1200 acre farm that's abundant in wildlife but i have only been out to scout 3 times, i have saw quite a bit of turkey sign but no birds,i really dont know where to try to zero in on a good flock of turkeys because 1200 acres is a lot of land to live on if your a turkey...there are three nice really green fields that were sown with corn a couple years back and they are surrounded by a couple big white oaks and some tall pines so i figured they may roost there...there is also a 30 yard wide clearcut gas line that runs thru part of the property and i thought that would be a good try as well....if any of you know how i can locate a few good birds in this type of landscape please let me know!!!
good luck to allyou guys this season!!
good luck to allyou guys this season!!
03-20-2008, 01:13 PM
#3
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Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: gainesville, FL/Blakely, GA
Posts: 580
RE: need help on locating birds!!
exactly my thoughts. get out and listen to maybe get an idea of one of their roosting areas. Or You could even go a little after daylight and just glass that gasline or other open areas.
03-21-2008, 08:08 AM
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Join Date: Jan 2008
Posts: 409
RE: need help on locating birds!!
These guys know what they are taking about...no one can get the most out of scout by walking 1200 acres looking for turkey poop, scratchings, dropped feathers. The locate several possibilities one must study the "Big Picture."
Get out there before first light and and at dark the first two weeks before the "Opener" locate yourself at high point, different locations each time and listen. Make some notes on an areial map and mark it up with your findings from year to year.
By listening from open fields that over look wooded forest, hills and valleys one can best tell exactly where the calls are going from.
If you have some pasture or clear cut areas, check them out around 9-10 AM but with binoculars from a far. That out of the woods and don't call until opening day....Use the tactic of Surprise......
If you are hearing lots of gobblers and would more like some more thoughts, call me I can be there dressed in camo.....
Get out there before first light and and at dark the first two weeks before the "Opener" locate yourself at high point, different locations each time and listen. Make some notes on an areial map and mark it up with your findings from year to year.
By listening from open fields that over look wooded forest, hills and valleys one can best tell exactly where the calls are going from.
If you have some pasture or clear cut areas, check them out around 9-10 AM but with binoculars from a far. That out of the woods and don't call until opening day....Use the tactic of Surprise......
If you are hearing lots of gobblers and would more like some more thoughts, call me I can be there dressed in camo.....
