Along with my deer-hunting buddy, Dick Ryan of Altoona, I was one of the hunters foolish enough to tramp around the woods on final day of the senior-citizen doe hunt last Saturday. Within the first hour, I was drenched to the skin, and adding to the agony was that all day long I kept running into turkeys. This is one of the great mast years so there are acorns nearly everywhere. There’s good news and bad news in that situation. Plenty of food means plenty of turkeys. That’s the good news. But the turkeys don’t have to move far to find them so they tend to concentrate on one ridge or in one spot. That’s the bad news — at least for hunters. We are the ones who have to stay on the move to locate the birds. The main thing the fall hunter looks for is the evidence of a turkey’s feeding area — their scratchings — which is quite visible to the hunter’s eye. These scratch-patches are made when the long-legged birds scrape the leaves away from the earth to uncover whatever is there.