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Are there any turkey hunters here? I'm getting old and beat up enough that deer hunting is losing its shine, but I really like having a freezer full of game.
How is turkey hunting? It always feels like it's a sea of trigger happy nut jobs out in the woods, but I've never actually done it.
I assume you're referring to the upcoming spring turkey season. I can't comment about nutjobs because I only ever hunted in the woods behind my parents' house, though a redneck out of central casting stole our flagging pins for a proposed new trail during spring turkey a few years ago, so they're evidently territorial about what other people should be allowed to do in a state park. I haven't done it in a while because it got too frustrating. I'd be over at my parents' visiting and see up to 40 turkeys moving across the back yard, though they all disappeared as soon as the season started. In about five years of semi-regular hunting I got one turkey. The breast meat is fine but I didn't bother with the legs. A friend told me that they're a lot leaner than farm-raised turkeys and tougher as well, so they'd have to be braised for a really long time just to keep them from being inedible. The thing about deer is that you only need to get one to have a freezer full of meat, and my unscientific observations have shown that I'm about as likely to get one deer as I am to get one turkey. I should add the caveat that I gave up hunting over a decade ago when I realized that being in the woods was more enjoyable when I didn't have to carry a gun or worry about being quiet.
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