If you can get close enough to a turkey to wack the turkey with a stick you should be a hunting guide. Wild turkeys are as wary as any animal in N America. Dumb but wary.
I disagree about turkeys being wary but dumb, at least here in the People’s Republic of Massachusetts. They don’t seem to be particularly concerned about getting out of the way of cars as they amble across the street, and don’t often flee from leashed or invisible-fence hobbled dogs. I think they’re smart enough to know that, like illegal aliens, they’re a protected class of inhabitants, or at least smart enough to read the signs at my town’s borders saying “Firearm discharge prohibited within town limits.”