Turkey anyone?

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Ohhhhhhh makes me want to put the frying pan on the stove and break out the 22LR.... MMmmmmmmm


And if you have never eaten fried turkey breast you are missing out...
Mmmmmmmm ....... That and a plate full of country ham fried and then boiled in a couple cups of coffee..... Man thats enough to make you wanna smack your momma and then do it again... Home made biscuits........... OK now i am hungry see ya
 
Dustinthewind, I think my good friend Dennis the Menace put it best. "Oh Mr. Wiiiiillllssooon, I'm sleeping at your place tonight!"

Seriously though, glad to see someone's got some birds. I wish I could get more excited about them, but killing a turkey is an awful lot of work. Not really my cup of tea, at least not with a shotgun and call anyway. Now, Vern, your method with a 22 Hornet, that sounded like a plan.
 
I have had some around the house all winter, but they have flown the coop. Disapeared without a trace.
 
I have 185 acres, mostly wooded, with a 6-acre pasture in the creek bottom. I have turkeys coming up and down the creek all the time. I've shot turkeys literally from my front porch.
 
This was a small bunch about 40 or so that comes through in the morning. We have a big bunch that comes through in the late afternoon that will number well over 100 and I have seen groups that would number in the several 100's. I would hunt them,but $25 for a tag plus a hunting license?? My friend brings his son out every year to get a couple and generally they shoot them from the front porch.
 
Wish I had done that when I was 16 or so!

Kansas life-time is $442+ change.

Now, I doubt I would live long enough, or be able to hunt, for it to pay off.

Annual license is $20 bucks, so I'd have to still be going strong in 2030 at age 86!
That seems pretty unlikely at this point!

rcmodel
 
I think Kansas also offers a lifetime license that I should probably check out. They did start offering meat tags for turkey's at $10, max of two, after the initial purchase of the tag. I would like to see Kansas set a bag limit on turkey in our area. Quail and pheasant hunting used to be excellent around here, but the turkeys have decimated both of these birds. They raid the nests and eat the eggs, they also eat the fledglings.
 
Yep!

I haven't even seen a quail in the last couple of years.

And this was some of the best quail habitat in Kansas.

However, you will be hard pressed to get a KS F&G biologist to admit the turkey have anything even remotely to do with it.

Guess they have never seen a line of turkeys marching across a field eating everything in front of them that moves!

About the only thing that moves around here anymore is way too many deer, and way too many turkeys!

rcmodel
 
I knew I was competing with the turkey for morels but didn't realize they would eat the eggs of ground nesting birds although now that it has come up it makes sense. I just got my daily dose of learning. Thanks
 
Much of the reduction in quail is due to loss of habitat. Arkansas used to have tip-top quail hunting -- back when people clearcut woodlands and then allowed them to regenerate naturally. The thick tangled briars provided shelter for quail.

I have a neighbor who had 700 acres clearcut that way about 8 years ago -- and his place is a nightmare of briars, and alive with quail.
 
The thick tangled briars provided shelter for quail.
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That's probably the case down there.

Around here our quail habitat was mostly woodlands bordered by pastures and tilled fields. There were, and still are, a lot of hedge-row fence lines bordering fields.

I was not unusual to find three or four coveys in a quarter to half mile fench line.

Not anymore.

But you can go out morning or evening and see every field & clearing full of turkeys just off the roost, or chowing down before dark.

Quail chicks & eggs don't stand a chance!

rcmodel
 
I've got 40 acres in Clay county, Fl. and it used to have a good population of turkeys (osceola). They all but disappeared several years ago, but they are making a comeback. I think the foxes and yotes were eating their eggs. No more quail, but lots of dove. I missed a good gobbler over the weekend. I was shooting a .22 mag. single shot and shot under him as I must have miss judged the distance. Should have had my son's cz 17hmr.
 
In this sandhill country where I reside there is still plenty of cover, lots of sandhill plum thickets and red cedar. Used to be that every bunch of plum brush had a covey of quail in it, now you rarely see a quail.
 
I am real excited bout Turkey season here in Eastern Kansas. I am lucky enough to have some good hunting spots close to Kansas City. I have a couple of friends who shed hunt and they say the birds are out in force. I hope to be able to fill both of my tags this spring. Good luck to all you Turkey hunters this spring.
 
Spring turkey starts in New Mexico 15 April, but I have never tried it. We have Merriams turkey. I see them once in awhile near water, sometimes miles from water.
Are they good eating?
 
I just got shocked from drooling on the keyboard! I would freak out if I saw a turkey, let alone 2!
 
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