How many of you guys do this?

[Shanman]

35yr veteran of gobbler track stomping.

 

[rifle02]

Wow! I have never even thought about stomping out tracks. My turkey hunting experience has been sadly lacking thus far.

 

[rifle02]

After several hours of boring turkey hunting I say Turkey Schmurky and I start looking for deer tracks instead.

 

[Groundhawg]

I step out every track I come across unless I am on my own personal land. You guys do the same?

Nope

 

[Cull Buck Hunter]

Not going to lie about it but, not going to forward info either, unless i can trust you.

 

[Monk74]

Never heard of this. Is it a public land thing? Guess I'm late to the party.

 

[Popcorn]

Wow...
Yall need something to do or a job or something!

That would be funny ifn it werent sad....

 

[Spurhunter]

Absolutely every track , turd and anything else they leave behind! Learned that years ago from an old timer. Now it's just second nature I can't stop myself!

Same here.

 

[Gravey]

A first for me as I've never heard of this but don't hunt public these days. I have in the past but never crossed my mind.

 

[CBU93]

Never heard of this. Is it a public land thing? Guess I'm late to the party.

IMO it's more a matter of cutting your teeth turkey hunting in areas with low populations. Public or private...low populations and high hunter populations make for interesting tactics and ethics.

 

[PalsPal]

Absolutely.

I've taken it a step further and carry a gobbler foot with me. For every spot I check with no gobbling I'll put a few fake tracks in soft mud on the way out just to throw them off !

Actually I haven't done that, but now that I think about it , it's not a bad idea.

 

[Spurhunter]

My cousin and I watched THP last night and was making fun of the long haired chic taking video of every gobbler track with a hand beside it for size reference. Cousin was scouting some public land in MS today with a buddy. He told me they cut one gobbler track in a particular area, so, of course I asked if he took a video of it with his hand next to it. He said, "I was going to but my buddy stomped it out before I could." I think wiping out turkey tracks is taught in Kindergarten in Mississippi.

 

[Layne]

I'm with Andy, I look for any spot with boot tracks that look like a turkey hunter has been dancing, that's where I start listening.
To really hide it you first have to stomp out the tracks, then get a pine branch and scratch out your boot prints, then hide the broken pine limb, I look for those too...

 

[muddyboots]

Well I did yesterday since I read this. Lol

 

[megalomaniac]

Last year on the juvie hunt in MS, Ethan and I tent camped out on the lease to be the first to the sign in shed and to scout. We came across a set of gobbler tracks on the main dirt road that went on for a quarter mile. I made Ethan stomp out every single track on that road, then I rode over his stomping with the 4 wheeler

With very few actual birds down here, just finding a track is a big deal... and a single fresh track is all I need to stay in an area even without gobbling to find a tom. Heck, I did that twice on national forest last year... cut a fresh track, stayed in the area, after a while a bird gobbled, and he then came in and got shot.

I didn't do much track stomping the past 4 days.... I covered 25 miles walking in 3 different counties, and only cut one fresh track

 

[muddyboots]

I covered 8.2 miles yesterday and cut 3 gobblers and 1 hen track. Far cry from the good times.

 

[Bone Collector]

I ain't gonna lie. I went scouting yesterday. I was on private first (no one else is supposed to be there) so I just looked around and made mental notes. On public I stepped on every one. Never heard of this before. Didn't mess with the droppings, though.

you didn't tell me to step in the poop and since i was taught at a young age not to I avoided stepping in it.