What's your best method? I've never had much luck. Hunted this morning and had several in different areas, but couldn't pin point exact locations. Want to get right in their wheel house tomorrow morning, so trying to find them.

Listen for their gobbles at dusk. So I guess you should be there now. Slip in within 200 yards before daybreak the next day

Get as close as you can to the roost sights at sundown. and sit and listen for them.

I wait near suspected roosting sites and owl hoot just as it is getting dark. This sometimes gets a gobble in response. Sometimes they will just gobble without the owl hoot. If you are close enough you can sometimes hear their wing beats as they fly up. It has been my experience that turkeys will often move sometime during the night. I have seen them fly up and know exactly which tree they were in at dark and then the next morning find out they were 50 to 100 yards away in a different tree. Nothing for certain with turkeys..

Coyote howler will get them to bust off.

I was coyote hunting once and a a tom gobble ten times in a rows when my call started.

Spooking birds off the roost can ruin your hunt.

Locate them later in the day a see where they head to near dark!

I rarely had time to roost them before the next day's hunt and the few times I tried I only found them once. I always tried to find them in the morning with crow calls or a predator call. Funny but owl calls never worked in California for me even though we have lots of owls.

I found that coyote howls would sometimes make them shut up so I stopped using them.

Later in the morning a hawk scream would get them going.

Good luck.

Pete

I like a peacock during the day, but turkeys will still gobble on the roost for a few hours after dark too. I like to go out right at dark and owl hoot Until I locate them, but I seldom roost birds. I like to run and gun better.

It can be hit or miss. Sometimes they just won’t gobble in the evening. One time years ago I sat in a spot listening until it was nearly dark and heard nothing. The next morning they were roosted where I had been sitting. I still don’t know how they got there.

I’ve never had much luck with roosting. Plus, too much of a chance of spooking them

Turkey's will usually roost close to water. The first thing they do in the morning when coming off the roost is get a drink.

Bingo!!

I've had the best success roosting birds with an owl call, no need to get too close of an evening. 200+++ yards away is plenty close, especially if you know the terrain you'll be hunting the next morning.

One tip, I've shared with many new turkey hunters, you're FAR better off being 30 minutes EARLY, than 5 minutes TOO late in the am. You bump them off the roost or screw up getting in too late.......this can make for a very looooong morning in the turkey woods. Been there done that enough, LOL. The cover of darkness is your FRIEND!!

Well, found the bird last night, dumb luck as he wasn't replying to anything, but spotted him late. Snuck in this morning and had a bunch gobbling, but he was the only one close. He slowly worked his way in, but hung up at 45 yards because he was scared of my avian x strutter. Would have left that in the truck, cause I know they're hit and miss, especially this early, but male interaction is the most fun part of turkey hunting imo.

Hang ups suck, they aren't dumb birds.You'llget a shot yet!

There Isn't any water around here where I hunt so I wouldn't count on water. And the birds around here will not respond to any owl hoot. They just seemed to have stopped responding.

Find a food source that the hens are using and wait them out. The gobblers will not be far behind.
I gave up hunting the roost areas a long time ago. I would rather run and gun and call.

age of the turkey population is a big factor on the shear amount of gobbling! In my area the old boss gobblers might only gobble once or twice on the roost, then pitch down and silently hunt down hens. they seam to spend a lot of time cruising clearings just looking close lipped! If you want tons of gobbling find two year olds they Are bucket mouths! When I take someone that's never hunted turkeys. I seek out those birds they put on a academy award performance. For a challenge find a boss gobbler that's surrounded by 5-6 big mouthed jakes. But be prepared to sit along time! And be well hidden the jakes will come in multiple times before big boy will commit! But I guarantee you will get your fix on gobbling

They love steep hillsides also I know a place in WY where they roost about every year in a 300 yard radius on a hillside.