It doesn't look like there's any clear roosting over water features. I always heard they did that too.

I am with BD. I would like to know the dates of those. I at least strongly feel to have figured out. Some turkeys tend to stay in same area for first few weeks of season. Then in my opinion when they breed all the hens around start bouncing around often in search of more. Seems when the "always there" turkeys start the moving around the actual calling one up season is basically over in a week or two. Other turkeys that I would guess are the more subordinate birds are just hit or miss all over the place at any given time. Either that or just quiet for a few days after being put back in there place. These seem to be the ones that are more the Ready to die turkeys when you find them. I think they run in quick trying to get a hen before they get caught by the boss.

I think that just has to do with the particular turkey and his area. I have flushed a bunch of turkeys out of trees that hang over sloughs in the Alabama river while bowfishing at night. Even had one big ol gobbler freak out and fly off into the darkness only to hit another limb, fall into the slough, and had to swim to the bank.

I saw that too. he also had some good graphs showing turkey movement relative to hunter movement.

Not sure on the dates from the study above. He did mention in the podcast that his research shows that if you hunt a gobbler consecutive morning in the same roost area it is most likely different birds one morning to the next. He said the same bird will roost in the same tree once every few nights but it's not likely the same bird will roost in the same tree back to back nights.

I hunt one place where there is always a gobbler roosted almost every time I hunt there property. On the same little hardwood knob. It's hard to believe that it would be different birds back to back nights but he says that is what his studies suggest.
I really like listening to him because he is a turkey hunter and I believe he truly has an interest in preserving the resource. He has also been studying wild turkey for over 20 years in the southeast.

Gobbler has been telling us this for years, but a lot of folks wouldn't believe him. I thought studies from long ago showed gobblers averaging about 2500 acres during the spring. This turkey seems to have a smaller range than average if that is correct.

If I had a data map like that of the gobblers on our place this year, all the red dots would be across our property line. I hate a turkey.

I’ve had the same bird roost in a total of 3 trees, all within 50 yards of each other 15 of my 17 hunts this year. He died this morning

Some don’t travel.

Glad you got him! If I’d hunted one that long and he did the same, I would have long since cut them trees down.

Need to be careful what you read into his findings. I too have had plenty of occasions where I hunted what I believed was the same turkey off and on over the course of a multiple days. I can tell you when I killed him, the woods went silent.

Historically, if I had to put $ on a turkey being in a tree, it would be this one.

Can see 2 pastures to pitch to, and on a creek.

Just playing devil’s advocate here but how do you know for certain it’s the same gobbler and not different gobblers rotating through?

He’s jbc. He knows everything remember.

Just my opinion, but it’s a fairly contained environment

I could very well be wrong

You’re right Hoss Cartwright. Keep on keepin on

Of course you never know. But, if you go back a few times and fail to hear one in or near that tree, he dead.

Agreed. Multiple males over varying types of habitat would add a great deal of validity to this.

How do you know it was the same turkey? This is when PCP usually tells the Dam Turkey Story. We had one we called hilltop. For 2 years this turkey would gobble on the top of a hill about 500 yrs from where we parked the truck and he always gobbled more than every other turkey on our farm. Well dad missed him one day and I went back and killed him 3 or 4 days later. The next weekend he was back in the same place and gobbled more than any other bird. Some places are just the place gobblers want to roost no matter what
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I’m no pro by all means but if you have hunted a location many times and have a little head sense you can tell by the gobble to an extent of its the
same bird... I know some will say they all sound alike but to my experience you can tell the difference if he’s got under your skin more than once..
I hunt a bird every 5 days and he’s within 100-150 yds of same roost of an evening and in the same hay field every day... he’s beat me for 2 years
But he stays there.... far fetched maybe so but I’ll agree with some don’t travel... and I’m positive some do..

some of ya'll would argue with a rock.......

So now we are identifying individual gobblers by their gobble.