They are highly unpredictable this time of year. Food sources & roosting cover I think are the prime factors. Where I hunt, a large number of hens & toms spend their entire spring & summer here, and then the hens disappear completely in fall and stay gone for the whole winter. I don't know where they go. But in late winter, all the hens slowly return....starting about now. But there's usually a group of toms (14 this year) that stay around all winter. So it would seem that wherever you are seeing them right now is liable to change in the coming weeks. Of course there is still plenty of time to figure it out. With Indiana's very late hunting-season start date, they're going to become much more visible, long before the season starts.


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