Posted on 12/04/2014 7:36:59 PM PST by Coleus
New Jersey?
New Jersey.
Their not much to look at either.
I hate the damn things, inside or outside. I dread Thanksgiving and Christmas when I’m obliged to eat from the carcass of one.
I’m old enough now that I don’t need to feel guilty about what I don’t like and, thank God, rich enough to pick and choose. It may not always be so.
Anyway, this year I had ham.
They can be taken with air rifles out here in CA now during season. They are prolific, got thick enough around my town that the local old folks development hired a turkey sniper to come in and hit about 50 of them with a suppressed .22
Yep, tons of ‘em in the Sacramento area. Like giant pigeons. Not afraid of people at all. Of course go up into the National Forest it’s a whole different story. They aren’t so dumb as to not know where they are safe and where they aren’t.
70 mph in Mizzou...
I saw one fly once while on horseback in the Shenandoah Mountains.
I came into a large meadow, and saw a turkey (maybe 30 yards away) begin running at top speed through the tall grass, and it had that peculiar head forward posture as it ran. Suddenly it took wing, and my mouth dropped open...I had never seen one fly before!
Now, it didn’t get too far off the ground (about 20 feet maybe) and its wings looked very fat and stubby, but it flew into the woods at the edge of the clearing and disappeared.
Very cool!
Wild turkeys in Bergen County? I’ve said for years that a black bear sighting in Lodi would herald the Apocalypse.
I’ve seen them fly a few times, I shot one with a .284 on the wing about 100 feet over me many years back. Hit it in the neck (I was aiming for it’s head)...
There has ALWAYS been turkeys in NJ! >>
hey, you callin’ me a turkey? LOL
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