Question about turkey patterns from year to year...

[cornfedkiller]

Do turkeys generally travel and strut in the same areas year after year?

Reason I ask- on one of the properties I hunt, while hunting last year, I would glass birds across the property strutting and walking around on this same hillside almost every day (while I was set up in another location) - its a cattle pasture with short grass, and there is woods on each side of it - probably 150 yards between the two pieces of timber.

This place is out of state, and I only have two or three days to hunt it, so scouting a bunch isnt really possible. Im just curious if when I go back this next spring, is it a safe bet that they will be hanging out on that same hillside again??

Also, is the earlier spring going to mess this up if I am hunting there the same weekend as last year, or should the toms still be using that same area?

[DMP]

Generally they will use the same areas unless something with the land changes.  Ex: our place has changed each year the last 6 years due to logging on and around our property.

[cornfedkiller]

Generally they will use the same areas unless something with the land changes.  Ex: our place has changed each year the last 6 years due to logging on and around our property.

Sweet..Nothing has changed on the land - a large cattle pasture, with a creek that runs through the center, and then smaller tributary creeks that feed into it, and woods along the creeks.

[Frankinthelaurels]

Without question...I have a few places here in PA that throughout the year you rarely ever see a turkey..once mid-march rolls around they are polluted with turkey...So I'd agree with the above statement. Same thing with seeing them in certain fields and openings... Also power lines are a big big attractants in the spring as are gas wells and right of ways.