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I would think it would be fun to put on some leather gear and run up to and grab a few turkeys

I actually tried that once. Wanted to see how fast wild turkeys could move if I chased them.

They left me in the dirt. Literally.

My wild turkeys come in my yard if I don’t get the corn out for them early enough. The surround me as I feed them but never been attacked. I feed 46 a day, most of them being babies when they first met me. It is so cool.

Stand your ground and when it gets close enough, grab it behind its head and with your other hand grab their feet and upside down they cannot hurt you....you get to see how far you can throw them and they don't come back....same way to stop an attacking goose. Gloves not needed unless your breaking up a fight between 2 males...I use to raise them. A wild one flew into one of my pens where I had 1 tom and 3 hens, Royal Palms...those toms can get nasty with each other...yep, that calls for gloves...hubby handed me the gloves and said .....go get him....he didn't like large birds..the wild one had a beard that touched the ground...Ended up cross breeding them. The wild one was named Isaiah Thomas, forgot the name of the other one, but was named after another basketball player for Detroit...White one...The name at the back of my head is saying Bill Lambeer /SP