Button Buck

[Straightgrain]

Almost a year old.



 

We had a Tom in the yard today also; courting Mildred, the resident hen.



  

[pabst79]

Them Merriams sure have a pretty tailfan.

[Straightgrain]

Them Merriams sure have a pretty tailfan.

Indeed; I've only recently learned to fully-appreciate that color scheme, perhaps because he has been so close to me for so long..Natural beauty for sure.He was drumming today.

[drobertson]

Nice, we had wild turkeys come courting, not that close though, and they always gave their best effort to steal away the bride.  On the flip side, had a big ole Bourbon Red, take to the wild side of life, must have had a mid life crisis thing ;D or like the wild thing?

[WV Sawmiller]

I saw one on way to my son's place last week had horns about 3" long. Don't know how big they will actually grow to. He looked like an awful small deer and I wasn't even thinking about them starting antlers yet.

Saw a big gobbler in my pasture Tuesday afternoon while riding 4 wheeler with 3 y/o granddaughter. He had a beard about 7-8" long I'd guess. I did not hear him Wednesday morning when I got up to hunt him. I think they are already finished gobbling for the most part and we still have over a week of season left. I hear they will open season a week earlier next year as plenty were gobbling before season.

We had a month of snow on ground and I am just glad to see any of them survived. Our does should be dropping fawns any day. I usually have them raise on my place. Watched a single and a pair of twins raise inside the fence last summer as well as 6 turkey poults. The twins came to visit me at my feeders/deer stands several times a week and I saw them last week so they survived the winter and hunting season.