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Okay I know there are hunters out there that are smarter than me. There are also turkeys that are smarter than me.
I've been trying to pattern two flocks of turkeys and they won't do the same thing two days in a row. One flock might fly down in the field or after roosting will go a quarter mile to another field during the night. I cant hunt the second feild.
The other flock is 5 miles from the first doing the same thing.
My guess is that someone is messing with the birds. I have never had this problem.
 
Does anyony have some thaughts .

Befuddled in Maine.

One thing I have found to be consistent with turkeys is that they are unpredictable. About the time I think I have them figured out, they stump me, which is what happened to me this season. I guess if it was easy it wouldn't be nearly as fun. I can hardly wait til 4th season so I can go out again.

Good luck, RGINGRAS!!

A few years ago, me and best turkey hunting bud from SEMO were out on opening morn....he hit the owl call just as a little light was slipping into the dawn....no less than SEVEN gobblers answered, all on the property we were hunting and none further than a half mile......want to guess whether or not either of us killed that day?
Next morning, same place, not one gobble....mid morning, we both set up about a mile apart with a couple of decoys each and killed two year olds within five minutes of each other still without a gobble....go figure!
As slaymaker said, only thing I have found predictable about turkl burds is that they are unpredictable....

hunted this danged things for years and the only thing I know for sure about them is if ya spend enough time in the woods to figure them out, you have been in there long enough for them to figure you out...roost'em and GTFO..come back in before light and set up and hope for the best...sometimes it works sometimes it don't..point in case...couple of years ago I roosed this bird 3 or 4 nights in a row...didn't hunt him the next day for those times waited a few more days then roosed him again,,next morning went in before light from a directions that covered my approach and set up really well set out my dekes..got hunkered down well covered...about 70 yards from his roost..wind was blowing slightly towards him and the dekes were set up right in what should have been his glide path and landing pad..hit the call for a tree yelp just as it broke light..he gobbled, gobbled and gobbled..hit it with a come'mer put and purr..and all he77 broke loose.. I had hens coming and flying down from every direction...5-10-15-25..and a couple of jakes that kind stayed on the outside...they were clucking and yelpin' and talking to just about everyone all at once...he bellowed from his tree top lookout and I knew he was about to fly down..well instead of jumping into the wind to catch the wind he jumped the other way and flapped like crazy until I heard that tell tale thump...he hopped up[ and just kinda walked off the other way..leaving all them hens to me...walked right to another hunter that hadn't even had time to sit down....

LOL TT....happened to me too more than once....but no one ususally got the big boss sumbeech!

The only time I've been able to pattern the turkey here is when the grasshoppers hatch..or what ever it is they do?...we have one area of our property that when you walk through ...the ground moves away in front of you...there are so many tiny little grasshoppers...then one other area that they come in for a short period to hammer scratching it up until the leaves are like saw dust...that is some sort of beetle hatch...other than that they are walking around every where...

We had a bad storm the other day and yesterday I went out to assess the damage...Could not believe the tracks...singles...multiples...Not one area of our land didn't have turkey tracks...yet I hadn't heard a peep except this lone hen that clucked loud enough to wake me..sleep with the windows open...Now I'm not sure where I'll sit on Tuesdays opener

Thanks a lot. I was hoping these birds were acting abnormally normal. As for roosting birds I don't have that much luck. They fly up and then moove. Every time almost.
An yup I've had them do some weird stuff.

I'm absolutely no expert here, but is it possible the birds are on a two day cycle? Roosts at both ends of the routine, staying at each one every other night?

You can pattern them just like deer, until the shooting starts !!!

Then they change their habits depending on how much/often you are crowding their roost tree.