I had a bunch of misc. pictures of tracks, feathers, dropping, etc. from my scouting this weekend so I decided to just put them together with some description of what it is your looking at.I collected most of this while scouting from the truck. I covered ground you could not have walked in a week! If your hunting in an area with sandy roads its T H E B E S T, Q U I C K E S T, way to locate turkeys, bar none.
Turkey hen dropping. When their green their real recent!
This is some good sign I found from the truck. Hen dusting, gobbler and hen tracks.
A pair of gobbler tracks in the wet sand near a mud hole in the road.
Hens tracks!
Hen tracks and scratch sign. Notice, the scratching is in a "V" that points
in the direction the turkey is traveling.
Large gobbler track!
Pair of Jakes with huge feet walking together. Compare them to the hen track
in front of my left foot. Really the only way to know whether a big track is a jake is to actually
see them make it which, I did! I ran up on them around the next curve in the road.
Big gobbler track!
Hen scratching and traveling to the left. It's a little unusual to see
scratching in hard damp sand like this. I expect she was looking for gravel for
her craw.
Pair of running Jake tracks!
Jumbo Gobbler Track!
Bear and turkey tracks!
A very small hen track. It's much smaller than it appears in the photo.
Hen tracks and scratching in the edge of a mud puddle in the road.
Gobbler tracks.
Gobbler and hen tracks! Gobbler in middle moving left to right.
Tracking from the truck!
Gobbler and hen tracks in a sand road.
Strut sign! That is the 3-4 closely spaced lines that parallel another
set of 3-4 lines. Note the gobbler track in the middle, moving
from right to left. The gap between the parallel wing drag lines
can vary between 5" and 14" apart. typical is 10-12"
More strut sign from a gobbler strutting for a nearby hen.
A lot of turkey sign is very subtle and you need to really be paying attention to pick up on it. Once you
get you mind trained for what your supposed to be looking for you can easily pick out a turkeys toe nail sign on a hard road that does not take a foot track.
The picture I included here are all of pretty obvious sign otherwise you wouldn't be able to see anything in the picture. Successful hunters pay attention to detail that most people overlook so keep this in mind when your out in the woods, even in the off season.
Good Huntin'
Larry S.
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