Well the last couple of days I have been traveling westerly back and forth to Bangor. My wife and I have been seeing some nice looking toms moving around. Then those morning I took a short drive scouting and saw a small group with a nice tome shading the hens around. But it’s looking like the past few years as the flocks break up they tend to leave the fields for the most part.. It just adds to trying to figure them out. I still have to wait until May but it’s great to see them..

Also for something interesting a large tom was given a transmitter to help record its movement. They had recorded it to have traveled almost 50 miles. While it was the only one recorded at that distance I find it very surprising. One of the areas it went through wasn’t far from my camp. So not all turkeys act the same..

Turkeys will follow the food.

Amazing to hear one went that far though.

- Jake

Well the turkeys are still traveling through where I saw them a week ago. I saw 2 lone toms in a cutting in there when I was traveling by. Our season opens up tomorrow so hopefully they will come out and play.. Youth hunting was done this past Friday and Saturday. I was able to see a quite few birds posted from the youth hunters. Nothing gets your blood pumping then seeing those young ones getting the birds..

I scout 24/7 every day of the yr I can.
Tonight 5/3/26 i found 2 pods of 3 mature Toms basically with no hens. I can hunt that spot. Peared in the next field over i saw eell over 20 jakes with a few hens.
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Then on my way out a third field a Tom with 4 hens. Man i was on a roll. Traveled further fown the rd and 2 more strutters with 4 to 5 hens. New field I've watched for yrs. Might try an evening setup there.
I have a 30 mile loop Irun.. I found another single tom going to roost and then a real nice tom in strut in the field all by himself. Didnt see the hen but she had to be close with him strutting like that.. All in all i saw 3,3 2,1 and 1 tonight.
My 1st season opens Wed.

DTC and I have been testing or an occadionsl phone cal. The 2026 DTC & JW Excellent Wisconsin Adventure is in 3.5 weeks.

But in the meantime my 1st Wisc season starts May 6. I let others shoot the dumb ones....lol
So ya ive got a few around

JW

Well I am still not seeing very many birds hens included. I only had 1 big tom gobble back and that was only 1 time. It’s strange hunting with no gobbling and mostly seeing them moving in the early afternoon. I did manage to get a shot at 1 and I lost it. I was using Remington Nitro Turkey loads which was the only turkey rounds I could find. It knocked him down at around 20 yards. I thought for sure I had it with it flapping around on the ground and all. As I was walking up to it. It got up and ran so I put another round in and by then it was around 80 yards. I figured it was already hit once so I may as well try again. Knowing that I would be very lucky to knock it down at that distance. No I wasn’t lucky at all and with that experience I went looking in the place I was in before the season opened. What did I come across this time? Some Winchester DoubleX!! So yes I grabbed 2 boxes and they only had a limited supply of them. So hopefully I can get something on the board shortly.. I did manage to try a new area around 50 miles north of here and saw a quite a few hens. When heading out 8 jakes crossed a dirt road in front of me. But that was it and hopefully the turkey hunting will soon be picking up..

That’s too bad. Remington Nitro never patterned well in my gun but at twenty yards it should have been effective.

Thank you and I would have thought so as well..