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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.
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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.