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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Wild Turkey Strut
From: len-1 at comcast.net (Leonard Taupier)
Date: Wed May 30 07:26:26 2007
References: <949512.48898.qm@web90412.mail.mud.yahoo.com>

Nice story, Bill. No wonder these dozen or so turkeys adapted the  
preserve as their home. No guns allowed.

Happy hunting,
Len


On May 30, 2007, at 3:45 AM, Bill Smith wrote:

> For those of you who "approve of" hunting, you must know that  
> hunting wild turkey during the spring mating season is the supreme  
> experience. The most sporting way is to sit on the ground dressed  
> in full camo with your back to a tree and don't move a muscle while  
> you call (with a mouth or box call device you've practiced with for  
> days) incessantly like a passionately romantic hen. The normally  
> wily toms lose their head (somewhat like humans of the male gender)  
> and literally come running in seeking the amorous hen(s).
>
>   They often go into a strut right in front of your eyes to display  
> their "manliness" and  sometimes even attempt to mount the rubber  
> hen decoy you're using. All-in-all it's unbelievable performance.  
> Their eyesight for color is superb, but not for shape. Their  
> hearing is out of this world.
>
>   Once I got into a calling contest w/ a group of real hens for the  
> interest of two toms who were in-between us. I would have won save  
> for a damn fence that kept the toms from coming close enough to get  
> shot.
>
>   Bill
>
>
>
> Nathan Wajsman <nathan@nathanfoto.com> wrote:
>   Not this time of year, the know that Thanksgiving is several  
> months away ;-)
>
> Daniel Ridings wrote:
>> Leonard Taupier wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://tinyurl.com/2ff6sw
>>
>> How do you get close to these guys. I thought they were extremely
>> timid and shy.
>>
>> Daniel
>>
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