Been living on this 90 acres for 7 years. Have always seen 3 or 4 Longbeards together and a few Jakes during Deer Season. Come Spring I was always able to kill 1 or 2 Longbeards off this small tract. Last Spring there were 3 Longbeards Gobbling good and saw 4 Jakes together. Killed 2 of the Longbeards and left the other alone to Breed any Hens not Bred. This past Deer Season would see 1 Hen every so often. Back the first of March had 9 Hens on Camera....once. Since about March 10th only one Hen Occasionally. Camera is on a logging road they love to walk especially after a rain. Haven't heard a peep from a Gobbler. Either somebody killed them during Deer season or neighbors are feeding them HEAVY is all I can figure.....This is in Chambers County 4 miles North of Waverly.

Probably feeding heavy…we have seen the same if not more on our properties this year

My first guess - neighbor feed hard

Did u feed corn during deer season ? If u did - would think u would hav seen gobs - Of course - they may hav just out fed u

I would not hunt over it and it needs to be gone for 10 days before u hunt over it - if u see they not gone show - throw out some corn amd see if they show. Then u know

Well you killed 66% of the adult gobbler population last yr.

We talking bout…..90 acres.

We really gonna make population assessments on 90 acres of observation.

I’ve hunted places - large tracts - with high numbers and good quality habitat over the whole place. But there may be 90 acres inside that, where you won’t hear a bird, or find a track all year. Just the way it is with turkey.

What in the heck does that matter for 90 acres.

We still talking bout……90 acres.

This land is 100 to 150 year-old BIG Hardwood......10 acres of open Land.....Chufas Planted......Guess these Turkeys have become Democrats and don't want to Scratch for a Meal...

Dang - would thought they be all over chufas

Something is up

The Back side is a HIGH Bluff.....can hear a Turkey Gobble on a calm morning as today at least a Mile or more......Anymore Comments from you "Only 90 acres Folks"?? Here's Your Sign....

Maybe there's been some changes to the landscape around you such as major clear cuts growing up and getting thick

I can never make sense of any of his comments

Well if there are only a few turkeys in the area say 3 gobblers for the nearest 1000 acres and he killed 2 of those 3 on his 90 acres and someone else killed the other one there may not be any near him currently. Maybe the jakes took up shop 500 acres away who knows. I just know lots of times when you dont hear, get pics of and or see gobblers its because there are none. I know its just 90 acres.

Small properties seem to go through ups and downs with turkeys. I own 40 and keep up and hunt 80 beside it. I have pines and hardwoods on mine the 80 is big hardwood and 30 yr old natural regrow. I’m surrounded by pasture, big pines, big hardwood and different other timber types. 16 yrs ago we occasionally had birds but they never gobbled. 10 years ago they moved in and would hear 2-4 birds a morning. 5 years ago was the end of that though. Now we may hear 1-2 different birds a year. We normally hold 4-5 long beards a couple of jakes and 10-13 hens in winter. This year we had 4 long beards 6 jakes and 18-20 hens. We’ve heard two birds and that was Wednesday and my son killed one of them. I don’t know how to build a turkey paradise but you can have everything a turkey needs and still not have them.

Could be many things. Talked to my south neighbor yesterday and he mentioned a lack of birds on his place. He has historically held more birds than me because he has hillier terrain with more mature hardwoods which they seem to prefer. However I did a 50 acre clear cut last summer and it is apparent they like that better because I have a bunch on my place this year. My buddies who I let hunt have killed one and been on birds every hunt. No bait involved at all just preferred habitat.

Habitat, predators, weather, hunting pressure. I may not have them in the correct order

An adult gobbler has a spring range that averages around 2500 acres. I'm sure that some range over more and some less, but something around that figure seems normal. And the 2500 acres won't be a rectangle; it could take any shape. What I take away from that is that it's very normal for a gobbler that was on my place a couple of weeks ago to be 5 miles away today. It doesn't mean that anything is wrong; they have just gone somewhere else in their range for a while. If you have good habitat, they will be back.