What turkey loads are you using in your Parker

[Dean Romig]

There’s gotta be some kind of explanation for that Tom.





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[Tom Flanigan]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

There’s gotta be some kind of explanation for that Tom.

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I've never seen anything like it in all my years of shooting. I was shocked to say the least. Our bachelor groups are small, usually four or five birds, sometimes more, but rarely. I wish I had my camera with me. I took my friend back to see them and he was as shocked as I was. I have no explanation. I'm going to take my camera with me from now on in case I see it again. There were no hens in the field at the time. I carefully looked at every head to make sure all the birds were gobblers. A few of the birds were spreading their tails.

[Bruce Hering]

Originally Posted by Tom Flanigan

I've never seen anything like it in all my years of shooting. I was shocked to say the least. Our bachelor groups are small, usually four or five birds, sometimes more, but rarely. I wish I had my camera with me. I took my friend back to see them and he was as shocked as I was. I have no explanation. I'm going to take my camera with me from now on in case I see it again. There were no hens in the field at the time. I carefully looked at every head to make sure all the birds were gobblers. A few of the birds were spreading their tails.

Tom:

I do not find this too unusual. We regularly see large "groups" (40+) of mature gobblers over winter and on into about this time in the spring. There are, of course, some smaller groups.

I suspect for your area you are coming off several productive seasons. What would be interesting would be to try and establish a hens/gobbler ratio.

[Andy]

Originally Posted by Dean Romig

There’s gotta be some kind of explanation for that Tom..

We had a very mild spring upstate last year so they're probably one year olds Tom? I have never seen so many deer, and the grouse were up this year too.