Now that deer season is done I spend whole days in my hunting areas mostly looking over terrain and marking ridges etc that I will gobble scout in late March. Example:Back in December I found a ridge way back off a log road that had been logged recently. The only way to access is walking a long ways crossing a creek and then uphill for awhile, or walking a long closed road to get to the spot. I'm certain a gobbler will set up on the ridge it's a flat open place to strut above a large creekbottom with little access so shouldn't get pressured. You'd have to walk a mile from any direction to hear a gobbler on this ridge. I found this place after a half a day of walking. Well worth the effort. Late winter before the woods get thick and no worry about spooking birds, one of my favorite times of the year. You shoot them in Spring, but you kill them in the winter with scouting.
