Hunting season is winding down, little humor here to share

[Bonescreek]

o you wanna talk turkey ?

Turkey hunting wasn't allowed in my homeplace state when I was young.
We had deer, grouse, pheasant, rabbit, squirrel and such but no turkey.
In fact it was a rare thing to even see a turkey back in those days.
I started hunting in my high school years, over time, learned a lot and
did ok with deer and the small game. Hunting became one of my favorite
and most endearing hobbies and stayed with me my whole life.

Decades pasted by like a movie in the vcr on fast forward.
I found myself here in another state many, many miles from home and
guess what ?
We not only have turkeys, we have hundreds of thousands of turkeys AND
there is a turkey season both spring and fall!
Wow!

My wife and I moved down here about 12 years ago, upon the 3rd year I
said to myself I said "Self I'm gonna hunt them turkeys."
There was much to learn, I was pumped, I've taken so many deer and small
game over the years with my bow that it seemed like hunting turkeys would
be a well worth while pursuit.

Things I learned in the first 3 years,

1. If you shoot from behind a burm of dirt with moss on top (because you are
too cheep to buy a popup blind) and the burm is about oh a little over knee high.
Your sight pin being about 3" higher than your arrow on it's rest will cause you
to clip the moss on top of the birm and the arrow will sky rocket toward pluto.

2. Turkeys can see and hear you from many, many miles away. When hitting the
auto door lock on your key pad at or before predawn (the stars are still out, your buddies
on the hunt club like you are somewhere in ear shod across some 2100 acres)
while leaving your truck to go set up your blind, DO NOT set off the horn burglar alarm.

3. When you sneak into the wood before sunrise to get to your blind so as to catch
the cagy critters before they come off the roost trees. If you see something white the
size of a plastic clorox bottle along side your path with your penlight flashlight rest
a shored it is not. You will get confirmation as it starts to trot along side you and
you focus your light upon it and see the black and white stripe.

4. Do not over sleep. Leaving late to beat the sunrise is like Dracula racing to get
to the tomb. Turkeys have very long legs and you cannot out walk them. In the predawn light
being dressed in black like a ninja (blinds have black interiors so your camo is black) if
you get out late and try to make it to the blind as the sun rises, you will be spotted and
stalked by Toms as they watch you trot past their roosts.

5. Bring an extra pair of skivies for the bird that comes in quite from behind the blind
walks in to like oh 10' away and lets out a gobble that puts down thunder from a lightning strke
at 10 paces.

I will say even though with all the trials and tribulations to figure the turkey hunting thing
out, it really was a lot of fun. Like learning to hunt deer the first time, all over again
only with turkeys.

Happy Thanksgiving!