The Mrs. scores week one done

[BilletHead]

31 minutes ago, Stein said:

I should get to shooting.  Yard is getting thick.  My wife goes out on the deck and yells at them.  They are so tame around our place now you can walk within 10 yards of them and they just turn and walk away in no hurry.  Maybe if I thinned the herd a bit they might get the hint.

 

Not taking anything away from Mrs' BilletHead's accomplishment.  We are just lousy with them.  Yes, in the second pic I drove down the driveway, stopped, rolled down the window and took that pic.  They could care less.

     Pretty neat Stein! Thanks,

       You will not get away with that with the eastern variety of turkey in areas they can be hunted. What are those you have up there? Merriam's ?

Just found out,

The wild turkey (Meleagris gallopavo) was extirpated from Nebraska by 1915, but thanks to successful reintroduction efforts beginning in the Pine Ridge in the 1950s, turkeys can be found across the state today. Reintroductions included three subspecies (Merriam’s, Rio Grande and Eastern wild turkeys), as well as a hybrid between Merriam’s and a game-farm variety that was found to do well where earlier releases failed. The hybrid birds proliferated and intermingled with the pure strains as populations grew. Turkeys in the panhandle and Niobrara River valley are most consistent in showing plumage characteristics of the Merriam’s subspecies.

The wild turkey is the largest upland game bird in North America. Adult Merriam’s toms taken in the fall season average 18 pounds and adult hens average 10 pounds. Hybrid birds can be heavier, weighing more than 25 pounds.

 

     Looks like you have the cross that have the game farm variety They are on a farm .

BilletHead