yard full of turkeys

Right now, there are about 20 turkeys in my back yard. All toms and all just huge. :shocked2: I've never shot game in my yard even though it is a rare day we don't have deer. But, these are tempting. Might be time to charge up my fowler and keep handy. They are only about 10-15 yards from my door.

:grin: just do it

Have one :hatsoff:

The last turkey I took was off my porch. I got up to go hunting and seeped on to the porch where I loaded. I had just rammed the last wad home when a Tom stepped out of the woods. I couldn’t help but to think of the beaver in The mountain men, “take me Bill Tyler take me”, or Crockets story of leaning his rifle against a tree and a coon saying ”˜don’t shoot David, I’m coming down’. Some times you just take what the forest offers. Sometimes your skunked.

At one time we had a serious coyote overpopulation problem in this area. At that time we never would have seen a turkey population like this. Strangely, turkey farmers were responsible for the low wild turkey population. They would clear dead turkeys from their raising houses each morning and just toss the carcasses down the hill in back. This kept the coyotes well fed and able to reproduce in large numbers. Those 'yotes would also prey on wild turkey eggs and poults. That practice is now illegal and the coyote numbers have dropped dramatically. I'll have no qualm about harvesting one turkey this year.