Tame wild turkey
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05/17/20 06:04 AM
05/17/20 06:04 AM
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Joined: Aug 2010
Posts: 10,840 Asheville, NC
charles
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Posts: 10,840
Asheville, NC
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I live in a condo association. The 72 acre property is like a park. People are walking all day long, but turkey are common. A few years ago we had three gobblers who would peck on our glass door to call us. They wanted sunflower seeds. One by over a period of about a month, coyotes got all three. Every death that year occurred in a street. Next year was just two gobblers, of which one was dominant. This year we have one large gobbler who shows up with one or two hens. Wife and I sit on our patio and the gobbler comes within about three feet. Hens have been more wary.
Each year is a different bird(s). I wonder how they learn to return to the same address each year. Big gobbler last year had one spur and a nub. Not uncommon for mallard drakes to come in groups. A week ago a cottontail rabbit was scratching on our screen door. That was a first.
I think I could catch the gobbler with a cast net.
Last edited by charles; 05/17/20 06:08 AM.
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Re: Tame wild turkey
[Re: charles]
#6874696
05/17/20 08:53 AM
05/17/20 08:53 AM
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Joined: Feb 2010
Posts: 8,590 Henderson, N.Y. Jefferson Co.
walleyed
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I think I could catch the gobbler with a cast net.
That wouldn't be a challenge for a seasoned commercial fisherman. Try instead to grab the Gobbler by a leg, but watch out for his spurs !!! w
"Provisional/Interim" member of NYS Trappers Association Jefferson Co. Fur Harvesters
I Support Non-Resident Trapping
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Re: Tame wild turkey
[Re: pcr2]
#6874730
05/17/20 09:32 AM
05/17/20 09:32 AM
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Joined: Jan 2013
Posts: 3,117 7mtns of CENTRAL PA
GROUSEWIT
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7mtns of CENTRAL PA
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we get these PCR2 Mexicans lasso tigers loose on the street. VIDEO u lassoing that baby black bear!
NRALIFER,PRPA LIFER,HUNTER,FURTAKER
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Re: Tame wild turkey
[Re: charles]
#6875124
05/17/20 06:19 PM
05/17/20 06:19 PM
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Joined: Dec 2009
Posts: 1,079 Central Texas - Erath- Real Co...
Ol' Smoke
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Central Texas - Erath- Real Co...
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We had a tom that herded my neighbors guineas around our properties. The dang thing was overly friendly, Kinda scary in a way, when it followed you around. I have a picture of it standing in my shop next to my shotgun.
---- CAUGHT IN THE CROSSFIRE----Bye, Bye Miss American Pie----
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