Wild Turkeys...

[bdskelly]

Are pushing their luck walking through my backyard the day before thanksgiving !

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• bdskelly
• Nov 25, 2015

 

[kesmc27]

They are smelling their brother in that new smoker of yours.....LOL

Steve

 

[bmaddox]

Oh man that would not fly at my house (see what I did there 

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[bluewhisper]

I used to tend a cabin, and turkeys would walk by. I could watch them, like being in a duck blind. That gobble is surprisingly sharp when up close.

 

[kesmc27]

Why is it when I'm not turkey hunting it seems you could almost grab them around the neck, but when in the woods it seems like they know you're wanting to put them on the table......

 

[bluewhisper]

Sometimes when hiking we would disturb a flock, and they'd fly away - in the direction we were headed, so we would rouse the same flock two or three times before they circled around. I've had the same thing happen in a canoe, with herons.

Once on a park trail we spotted turkeys ahead of us, and behind us. We realized that we had crossed paths with a flock, and we just stood still as they passed by us.

 

[wolfman1955]

BOOM!!!

Then just tell the neighbors you were shooting targets!!! LOL 

 

[bluewhisper]

I used to hear grouse drumming at that cabin. For years, I wondered what that sound was, sort of like a basketball bouncing on a roof. Then I happened to catch a nature show about it.

I was walking the property with a friend who was a chef, and we flushed some grouse. That's startling because they sit tight until you get close, then there's a flurry. My friend said he had cooked grouse but never seen them in the wild.

 

[joe black]

I think Brian photo-shopped those turkeys into that picture to show off his new smoker.

 

[bdskelly]

No photoshop needed  LOL  Just throw out a little chicken scratch a few times a week! 

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• bdskelly
• Nov 25, 2015

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• bdskelly
• Nov 25, 2015

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• bdskelly
• Nov 25, 2015

 

[GaryHibbert]

 
Why is it when I'm not turkey hunting it seems you could almost grab them around the neck, but when in the woods it seems like they know you're wanting to put them on the table......

When I was a lot younger, I used to cruise timber for a living.  All summer, there were lots of bears around--saw one almost every day.  Come bear season, they would just disappear and then reappear the day the season closed.  It was almost like they had a calendar......

Gary