Question about jakes

[chow hound]

I always feel like when I see I jake I am in the wrong area.  It seems like jakes are almost always pushed several hundred yards out of the core long beard and hen area.  What does everyone think?

[MT elk slayer]

Here in MT I find a mixed bag. Sometimes just makes by themselves, sometimes jakes with hens, sometimes Tom's with hens, sometimes all three together.

[darn2ten]

Nope, I see them together in close proximity all the time. I've seen a couple jakes and a single long beard together quite a few times throughout the years.

[Greg Massey]

agree, of being a mix bag around my area. But i've never seen many jakes and long beards together around matting season together...

[spaightlabs]

I've shot a big tom hanging with a pile of jakes, I've seen a group of jakes run a tom off and I've seen a group of jakes kill a tom.

I've seen toms come through after jakes left and I've seen jakes come through after toms left.

There isn't a jake area and a tom area.

[Gobble Nole]

I can tell you that jakes move a lot from year to year.  We have around 900 acres in NW Florida and I have let at least 50 jakes live over the past 5 years. 

But each spring we will have 3-4 longbeards...

There is no telling just how far they range from year to year...