PROPERTY SIZE
Perhaps the most obvious factor in this decision is the simplest; do you have room to move? Some of my best turkey properties are scary-small, as in 20-40 acres, and on ground like this, it’s not only the safest, but the wisest, choice to simply sit still and force birds to come to me. In fact, moving around a lot — a tactic that comes with the risk of bumping the very turkeys you’re hunting — is often counterproductive; I don’t believe turkeys are “smart” (as in capable of thought), but they are super-sharp about places they encounter danger and places they don’t. Bump birds much on a small tract, and they may simply start avoiding it on principle.
On the other hand, I hunt huge tracts of public land in Wisconsin, with more moving
