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Any turkey hunters??????

Ricci.WrightRicci.Wright Member Posts: 5,127 ✭✭✭✭
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Every day for the last two weeks I see eleven wild turkeys at the exact same place a few feet off the highway. They are near mile marker 415 east bound on U.S.40 just outside of Wilmington, N.C. I haven't seen any evidence of anyone feeding them so why stay in the same spot so close to the highway. Every night on the way home I see eight or ten deer on the west side feeding beside U.S. 40. As long as they stay off the road I enjoy seeing them.
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    They are there, because there are hens in the area, and this time of the year the Tom's are strutting trying to entice the hens to breed.  The Toms will compete & spar with each other until one shows dominance.  That's the bird a hen may breed with. 

    This will happen until someone in camouflage sneaks into the area just before daylight, and snaps a cap on his big butt when he flies down from the roost.

    Our season here in NY doesn't start until 1 May.

    Trinity +++
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  • BobJudyBobJudy Member Posts: 6,671 ✭✭✭✭
    30 or so years ago Michigan was trying to establish a hunting population of turkeys. Ultimately they were very successful but had a few problems at the beginning with domestic/wild hybrids. I would come home from work to find these hybrids perched on the peak of my garage. They don't do asphalt roofing shingles much good when they slide down off the roof. If they were in the yard and driveway when I pulled in they wouldn't even get out of the way of my vehicle. One day figuring I needed to put a stop to this I put some firecrackers in the car. When I got home, there they were. I pulled up next to them and tossed a firecracker about 5 feet from the half dozen standing next to the drive. When it went off they flapped their wings a couple of times and one went over and pecked at the smoke curling up from the grass. I swear these were the stupidest critters on the planet. Fortunately we have a healthy population of foxes, possums, raccoons and various aerial predators. It took a little while but the predators got fat and the turkeys with the domestic/stupid genes have been eliminated. Bob
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
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    Next to the house yesterday

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