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Title: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: drobertson on April 22, 2014, 09:56:15 PM
Me and my father in law went out this morning, not a bad day, three to four gobbling, one came in, 22lb, 10" beard, 1" spurs,  lots of fun on a picture perfect day.


 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/30023/IMG_0662.JPG)
going after mine in the morning,
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: tule peak timber on April 22, 2014, 10:04:22 PM
Nice...Looks like a fun day ! We love turks!

 (https://forestryforum.com/gallery/albums/userpics/35190/turkey.jpg)
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: drobertson on April 22, 2014, 10:11:21 PM
Are those tame?  Christy and I have discussed getting into the turkeys as well as chickens,  Just need a bigger coop for these guys, 
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: sandhills on April 22, 2014, 11:22:34 PM
Sure looks like a good start to me!  Good luck tomorrow, our wild turkeys around here would be called "wild" in a relative term I guess, never saw much sport in it but I have a good friend that hunts them further north and he always tells me I don't know what a wild turkey is or how hard they can be to hunt, I'd like to go along with him some time.  I think he leaves next week for his hunt.
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: thecfarm on April 23, 2014, 06:42:46 AM
Turkeys here are "wild" and than some. If I step out my back door and they are behind the house,I better be looking quick,because they take right off. They have very good eyesight. They have been right in front of the house a few times. We go to the window or door and they are gone.
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: Magicman on April 23, 2014, 07:46:26 AM
Congrats to your FIL, David and Good Luck to you.   :)

Ours are also WILD !!!
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: tule peak timber on April 23, 2014, 08:57:18 AM
My Turks are in an aviary, but are "wild turkeys', Rio Grands. They have it pretty good at my place and this time of the year other wild turkeys actually pace around the enclosure and try to get in! Very good eye sight and hearing and fun to watch. I feed large numbers of birds twice daily and supply water creating quite a web of life around my home. We watched a baby bobcat stalking quail in the front yard last night, during trial flights of young pigeons off the porch beams. Lots of animals live in the log decks.... Rob
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: drobertson on April 23, 2014, 01:52:40 PM
Nice, not worrying about poachers is a good thing.  I still think we will have some by fall, maybe some bourbon reds, 
Title: Re: Missouri turkey season off to a good start
Post by: terry f on April 23, 2014, 02:08:41 PM
   Neighbor has trouble with the "wild" turkeys eating the cat's food off her porch. I know the South has always had them, but they're new around here, but a real success story. I've never shot one, but there is a difference between hunting one and shooting one. Nice pic drobertson