Read the bio. The author is an idiot chic that probably never hunted in her life. Turkeys easy, she is a dope. Wing shooting, better start with clay pigeons and practice for a year or you’ll hit your partner. Ducks, expensive sport to get all the equipment for. Deer, while sometimes easy, just what I want a newbie botching the shot, no idea how to blood trail, and thinks they clean and package themselves.
Stick with rabbits, squirrels and groundhogs. And if’n you eat the whistle pig you have my respect.
Actually a young GH is pretty good eating.
In other words, about average for 'Am Shooting Journal '.
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.
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 brother’s farm last summer. So this is a new adventure for a suburban boy.