strutting
01-28-2007, 03:08 PM
#1
Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: southeastern,Pa
Posts: 677
strutting
i found there roosting tree and there is a old road to the left and a ridge behind them. what is the best strutting zone and i found dusting bowl yesterday that enters into a semi open woodlot with a good trail in the middle about 4 feet wide. the dusting bowls are 200 yrds from the roosting tree. when do they dust. and what is the best strutting zone?
01-28-2007, 11:17 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Oakland OR USA
Posts: 2,929
RE: strutting
They have already started some strutting and early morning gobbling where I live in Oregon ,I believe a lot depends on your weather as to when they start . A few days of sunshine makes a lot of difference .
01-29-2007, 08:15 AM
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2005
Location: Iowa
Posts: 1,858
RE: strutting
Depending on where your located, it may be a little early for strut zones. Toms like wide open fields to strut in so they can be easily noticed. When it is early like this, I look for field tops and open fields, make a note of them, then check them closer when the season gets a little closer. Even though you may find one strutting here and there, it don't compare to what it will be like in a month or two when just about every field has a strutting Tom.
01-29-2007, 08:42 AM
#7
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,076
RE: strutting
ORIGINAL: zubba
Depending on where your located, it may be a little early for strut zones. Toms like wide open fields to strut in so they can be easily noticed. When it is early like this, I look for field tops and open fields, make a note of them, then check them closer when the season gets a little closer. Even though you may find one strutting here and there, it don't compare to what it will be like in a month or two when just about every field has a strutting Tom.
Depending on where your located, it may be a little early for strut zones. Toms like wide open fields to strut in so they can be easily noticed. When it is early like this, I look for field tops and open fields, make a note of them, then check them closer when the season gets a little closer. Even though you may find one strutting here and there, it don't compare to what it will be like in a month or two when just about every field has a strutting Tom.
When I saw a big boss tom standing on top of a dead fall tree in a well wooded area just 120 yards below the hill.
There was trees all around this gobbler but yet he went into full strut and I noticed he had five hen's in front of him.
In most case's a boss gobbler will pick a ridge top or a clear meadow and even the edge of a field.
