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I gotta herd of 56 wild turkeys feed'n no more'n 30 feet from my patio deck, and my camera is in tha pickup!! :curse: :shocking: :cry: 
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Sneak out the back door with a turkey call...when they come runnin, run back in and out your front door, grab yer camara real quick! ::
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Thet sounds like'a real good plan,.... 'cept Bob1961's got my turkey call!! :haha: :haha:
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Musketman,.... Thet's anuther good idea,.... 'cept if my burros see me sneak'n 'round with my lariat it'll cause a "burro stampede" which in turn, will cause a "turkey stampede". :curse: :: :haha:
The wild turkey comeback is truly a wildlife management success story in our lifetime...I now see a resident flock about every other time or at least 1 out of 3 times I go hunting on a couple farms...hear them yelping every morning after first light while I'm on stand.
And on top of all that, this very morning about halfway home from deer hunting, I saw my first ever road killed wild turkey by the side of the road...stopped and got feathers for my daughter.
Somebody had already stopped and neatly removed the entire breast...what was left of the turkey was still soft and limp, apparently happended within the hour of me stopping...but imagine, wild turkey's becoming so well populated we're starting to have road kills
And on top of all that, this very morning about halfway home from deer hunting, I saw my first ever road killed wild turkey by the side of the road...stopped and got feathers for my daughter.
Somebody had already stopped and neatly removed the entire breast...what was left of the turkey was still soft and limp, apparently happended within the hour of me stopping...but imagine, wild turkey's becoming so well populated we're starting to have road kills
Earlier this year I watched one glide gracefully into the side of an 18 wheeler 100 yards ahead of me on the highway. Didn't attempt a last-minute maneuver at all. POOM! Feathers everywhere. That same spot I've seen two other carcasses this year. Must be a roosting area nearby??
Turkeys and cats: smart in the woods, dumb on the road.
I just got back from sitting a deer stand in an Oak flat where there's still a fair amount of acorns under the leaves.
45 minutes before too dark to see, a Doe and 2 yearlings came shuffling along, and a couple minutes later right on their heels came nine big tom turkeys scratching along.
All had 10-12 inch beards dragging on top of the leaves...huge, healthy, colorful birds...just a beautiful, beautiful scene of deer and turkeys slowly moving through, scratching through that Oak flat and leaf litter looking for acorns...looked like a classic wildlife painting.
They gradually moved on through out of sight, and when I was walking out, I heard the whole flock fly up into a roost tree a couple hundred yards away...why they find it necessary to make all that racket flying up is beyond me but I feel very, very lucky whenever I get to witness special scenes like these.
45 minutes before too dark to see, a Doe and 2 yearlings came shuffling along, and a couple minutes later right on their heels came nine big tom turkeys scratching along.
All had 10-12 inch beards dragging on top of the leaves...huge, healthy, colorful birds...just a beautiful, beautiful scene of deer and turkeys slowly moving through, scratching through that Oak flat and leaf litter looking for acorns...looked like a classic wildlife painting.
They gradually moved on through out of sight, and when I was walking out, I heard the whole flock fly up into a roost tree a couple hundred yards away...why they find it necessary to make all that racket flying up is beyond me but I feel very, very lucky whenever I get to witness special scenes like these.
Was out in my deer blind this afternoon and heard some turkeys yelping and even heard a couple of gobbles. Didn't see them at all, but heard them....now where were they last week before the season ended?????
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One spring, the wife and I were canoeing down the st criox river in western wisconsin. We heard a turkey gobble so we got out of the canoe and found it in a small opening. what amazed me is how a big bird like that can fly and can flush up pretty quickly. not as quick as a grouse but fairly quick
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We used a bobcat to dig a watering hole down in our woods for the deer. It's off to the side of a trail just a bit and there have been as many as a dozen turkeys using it when we come walking down the trail, before the season. Likes to stop your heart when they leap into the air and clear the trees when we startle them.
Roundball;I too,am amazed at the comeback of the Turkeys.I was still living in Northern N.Y.State in the late 50s early 60s when I saw my first Turkeys in the wild.Wife and I were just out hikeing and the birds (2) flushed off the side of the mountain 20 feet below Us.Took a minute to realize what they were.I reported the sighting to the State conservation dept.They had just started a restocking program a coulple years prior.Thease were some of the first birds born in the wild from that stock.Now it's common to come upon them all over their old ranges.The Whitetail deer were also on a serious decline in many states,now there are more deer than in 1900.Most monies for thease and other projects come from hunters and Sportsmen,not the "animal rights" peaople. :redthumb: ::
