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I'm willing to dry new recipes and preparations of it. But I will not be plucking one again

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lol no you didn't offend me. I've tagged 10 turkeys in 18 seasons now and have yet to find a way I enjoyed eating it. I wouldn't call it "bad" but I don't enjoy it either. It's just very blah. It tastes like nothing. One time a friend smoked one for me and that was slightly better. But I...

Wild turkeys cannot see in the dark, just a FYI. Their vision is top notch in daylight, but they are borderline line blind at night. I don't set up my blind right on top of the roost. I set it up a ways out. Obviously I'm trying to avoid having to walk right past the roost to get to my...

No they don't. If I served wild turkey at Thanksgiving, no one in my extended family would show up. lol

Well now there's two of us Wild turkey is not anything I'd want to consume more than once a year.

The landscape sure changed dramatically in the past 48 hours here. Went from totally bare ground to a foot of snow.

I use a box call. I hunt from a portable blind that I set up in advance after I've located the roost. Get in there at 5am and stay until whenever. Sometimes I'll go back early in the evening for a hunt too. Quite often the turkeys I see in the morning that are too far away will all come back...

This has happened to me several times too. It's like they can't figure out one of their own just got blasted in the face by a 12 gauge.

Season A here, which starts Wed April 15.

A foot of snow here. The landscape went from brown to pure white in about 48 hours. And now we'll be below zero tonight again. Guess we're going backwards for a bit. Spring will have to wait.

Yes it does. Some opt for more of a challenge. I try to use every advantage that's legally available to me because I have a hard enough time being successful as it is.

It's not really my preference either. But I do what I have to do to try and be successful.

Bob has gotten to be an exponentially better hunter over the years. I remember when he first started this and constantly struggled. Those days are over, he is an accomplished upland hunter now.

I used to hunt late season years ago when there was a lottery. When I didn't draw season A or B, I'd have to hunt E or beyond. I actually did harvest a couple of birds hunting later in the season. But I would rather be fishing once that season opens so that's primarily why I prefer to turkey...

I bought my spring license the other day when I bought my 2026 angling license. I normally hunt season B here in MN but I have a conflict that time period, so I went with season A which starts on April 15.

Not a whole lot of sport or challenge involved with that

Lol is this a thing? I feel like it would be comical in person.

Pheasants are more susceptible to winter conditions than wild turkeys are. I watched that unfold last December in person right after I quit hunting for the day and started heading home. A mile down the road, after a big snowfall, I saw a large open field with about 100 pheasants and 25 wild...

Hunting season was tough for this guy because of all the snow. I hunt in Central MN and by the third week of November, the snow was already very deep. It was like that through the end of the season. It was very cold in January for about 2 weeks straight but snowfall has tapered off...