Posted on 09/24/2020 7:03:58 AM PDT by w1n1
“I question whether the author has hunted many wild turkeys.”
Either that or he can creep really fast.
rwood
We have a lot of protected Turkeys in our gated community. they are table size and quite beautiful. They seem slow when they wander back and forth in your yard but when spooked they take to the air quite quickly. Not with the fanfare of quail or pheasant, ( which startle the hunter) but I could imagine a nice wild turkey would be good for the beginning hunter. We have a tree that they all like to line up on at night.
Recently wild pigs have moved in for grubs in the lawn — what a mess they make, but I have never seen one, so I suspect the hunter needs to stay up past my bed time.
Actually, I am so out of shape now that I gave my bow to a younger member of our family — maybe he will get more use than I.
My wife and I always planned to go bow hunting for carp — somehow a turkey sounds better, but carp definitely fit the slow part, unless they are being fed, then they get very agitated. Then we moved and never got back to that bow hunter club.
My real advice is to get out and do it before poor health interferes, because one day it will.
She wont do my squirrels either, not even in a nice hasenpfetter like this
https://honest-food.net/hasenpfeffer-recipe-dumplings/
Dahm that looks good. . .she does do a killer venison Guinness stew with dumplings. My daddy taught me to keep your mouth shout, eat and say thank you, thank you if you have got a good cook.
Interesting point about the skeet before bird hunting. My son, who is in college, recently was invited to go skeet shooting and eventually join a hunt for doves. The skeet shooting will be this weekend. Our family knows nothing about firearms, but I got him an introductory class for Christmas a few years ago and he practiced shooting in my brothers farm last summer. So this is a new adventure for a suburban boy.
Friend of mine has one of those (don't know which version), with a high-powered laser mounted on the rifle. Says the laser burns a hole through the target a split second before the bullet arrives, and the bullet zips right through without actually touching anything. That way, he doesn't have to worry so much about bullet construction...
;^)
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