Congrats on getting the turkey. I have a champion turkey hunter in my family. My son limits out every year...with a bow!
I have seen them walking around downtown Minneapolis. They are huge, almost shoulder height.
Just sent this to my brother - he’s turkey hunting tomorrow. He and a partner bought a farm recently & it’s loaded with wild turkeys. Seeing this is going to make for a long day at work :-)
We also have some wild turkeys around here, including one smoke phase hen - she’s really pretty & hatched a half dozen or so baby turkeys last year. Hopefully, the coyotes we’re seeing on the game cameras aren’t getting them all.
i got mixed feeling about it.
at some point you can get so much technology working for you it kind of ceases to be a true “hunt” and becomes just a harvest.
that said, i know the increase in heartbeat as you call the tom in, so like i say, mixed feelings.
“When they pass close by you in flight, they make an impression!”
That they do. I had one pass within about 20 feet of me as I was playing golf one day last summer. Distracting to say the least.
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That one on the right looks healthy ... even if he only has one leg.
I had a couple of hens come foraging through my back yard this winter. Should have tossed them some bread crumbs ...
Do these turkeys fly???...
Wonder how many times the decoy has been blown away by other hunterrs?
Once you’ve eaten a wild turkey, you’ll say: **Yummmmmmm. So *that’s* what turkey is supposed to taste like.**
And any other roasted bird, no matter if it is organic, free-range, etc. tastes quite like it. It will have you longing for another wild.
Several weeks ago when I went to the Fraser Senior Center on 15 Mile Rd. W. of Utica Rd. to play volleyball, there were two turkeys in the parking lot of the senior housing center across the street...........
Just like the deer that can't be hunted due to the close proximity of houses everywhere, the turkeys will eventually become a nuisance.......oh well.
turkeys are totally eating the eggs and young of all ground nesters. We hardly have any quail. But they are amazing birds in their own right. Maybe I can talk Mr. Mercat into hunting them. He wants to buy a shotgun. This would be a good incentive. I’ve had wild turkey. Yum. I remember it being mostly dark meat which I prefer.
In east tennessee, 18 wheelers are turkey predators
They don’t fly high enough to get out of the way
“Turkey populations in Wisconsin have boomed in the last 15 years.”
I can testify! They are freakin’ EVERYWHERE YOU LOOK these days. And they’re big. And mean. And aggressive as heck!
Shoot at will! :)
A friends 10 year old daughter got one during our Spring Youth Hunt. She was proud-to-bursting, though he was a little bit smaller than, ‘Tomzilla’ who was hanging out with the one she got, LOL!
Little girls who hunt will have NO problems making it through life. :)
Whip o wills declining too. Lots of nest predators to blame egg consumption on, not sure I’d blame it on turkeys.