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<blockquote data-quote="megalomaniac" data-source="post: 5589973" data-attributes="member: 2805"><p>I spend 100s of hours studying maps, property lines, and satellite imagery.</p><p></p><p>THEN I put boots on the ground before season to see if they are actually what looks like good habitat to me.</p><p></p><p>But that is my greatest weakness. 95% of the spots I pick out as being perfect end up being a total blank with no birds, even if the habitat looks good (to me). I still haven't figured out how to translate online maps to real, actual turkeys.</p><p></p><p>It's getting frustrating to the point where I'm about to start picking out the worst looking spots on imagery and checking those... im that bad apparently.</p><p></p><p>I just wish I had a fanbase to send me pins of where gobblers were so I didn't have to find them myself. </p><p></p><p>I will say I'm better than average when it comes to spotting and identifying actual sign (tracks, scratching, poop, stray feathers, kill sites, etc) and how old it is. I've killed several gobblers down here just by cutting a fresh track, heading the way he was walking, then striking and calling him in.</p><p></p><p>My other weakness is I tend to hit spots that I've killed birds before in years past assuming they should still be good. Ends up being a waste of time mostly. I've never killed a bird on public down here where I've killed one in years before. Until I figure out what I'm doing wrong, it just seems like turkeys are where you find them.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="megalomaniac, post: 5589973, member: 2805"] I spend 100s of hours studying maps, property lines, and satellite imagery. THEN I put boots on the ground before season to see if they are actually what looks like good habitat to me. But that is my greatest weakness. 95% of the spots I pick out as being perfect end up being a total blank with no birds, even if the habitat looks good (to me). I still haven't figured out how to translate online maps to real, actual turkeys. It's getting frustrating to the point where I'm about to start picking out the worst looking spots on imagery and checking those... im that bad apparently. I just wish I had a fanbase to send me pins of where gobblers were so I didn't have to find them myself. I will say I'm better than average when it comes to spotting and identifying actual sign (tracks, scratching, poop, stray feathers, kill sites, etc) and how old it is. I've killed several gobblers down here just by cutting a fresh track, heading the way he was walking, then striking and calling him in. My other weakness is I tend to hit spots that I've killed birds before in years past assuming they should still be good. Ends up being a waste of time mostly. I've never killed a bird on public down here where I've killed one in years before. Until I figure out what I'm doing wrong, it just seems like turkeys are where you find them. [/QUOTE]
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