What is a strut zone?

[Gobble!]

A zone he likes to strut.

[yelpaholic]

ANYWHERE HE LIKES TO GET AND STAY AND STRUT AND GOBBLE USUALLY ABOUT 75-100 YARDS FROM WHERE YOUR TRYING TO SHOOT HIM FROM

[jwhunter]

ANYWHERE HE LIKES TO GET AND STAY AND STRUT AND GOBBLE USUALLY ABOUT 75-100 YARDS FROM WHERE YOUR TRYING TO SHOOT HIM FROM

[RemingtonRules]

The best way I know of to locate them is visually, or where the hens go to feed in the morning, or hear him gobble from one location as he moves back and forth in a small area.

I don't worry too much about the labels of spots, just hunt where turkeys are and where they want to be.

[Spitten and drummen]

a place that he feels comfortable in. he hangs around displaying where hens can see him. find one of these and hang out , and you will kill him. if one flys down and goes to the same place 2 mornings straight , its a good bet he will be riding in my truck. you pattern one that goes to a particular ridge or logging road to display on , you should kill this bird.

[paboxcall]

Where ever the hen he's trailing happens to be standing.

[silvestris]

I have never held a belief in "strut zones".  I do believe that areas have acres that contain the elements conducive to the comfort of turkeys and that they will spend a great deal of time there.  But a spot that they dedicate exclusively for displaying for hens?  No.

[deerbasshunter3]

A zone he likes to strut.

Well, that makes sense.

[Cut N Run]

We had a strut zone at my old lease that was where a powerline cut crossed a bench just below the highest ridgetop on the property.  It was about the only open spot for 1,000 acres of woods and turkeys loved it. Gobblers went there to see, be seen, and challenge other gobblers as they called in hens.  It has been the same year after year and produced boss gobblers for me every Spring I hunted there.  Gobblers fought to control the area and hens moved through the area consistently as long as it didn't get too much pressure. I've never seen another one exactly like it, but I'm always looking.

No matter where I hunt, I look for elevated spot that gets sun and has a quick escape route into heavier cover.  If you're hunting an area and regularly hear gobbles from the same vicinity, try to put those things together and find a place close to it in the shade where you can set up in range.  If you find multiple days worth of strut marks in the ground, you're in business.

My experience is with Easterns in wooded areas only.  I've hunted agricultural fields about five times in 33 years of hunting turkeys.

Jim