AKAnon, where I live they give you a big fine if you deliberately run over turkeys.
AKAnon
February 17, 2016 8:02 pm
Hah-where I live, if you hit it, you eat it. Except moose-those you need to report (unless no one finds out).
starrfcker
February 17, 2016 10:09 pm
Last year, I went to pick up a trac hoe from a buddy of mine, at dawn on a foggy morning. As I drove down his driveway, a turkey was running in front of my truck. It looked like a wild turkey to me, but this was in town, and we don’t have wild turkeys in urban broward county. It froze off the road, so I got out to take a picture with my phone. It started walking towards me, so I thought, the fucker’s tame. About that time the goddamn thing flew up and kicked me in the chest with both feet. Luckily it was a chilly morning and I had on a couple of sweatshirts, they have huge spurs on their feet. I beat the thing off of me and it flew away. Evidently that’s not uncommon behavior for frustrated wild turkeys to invade urban areas and attack.
Francis Marion
February 17, 2016 10:17 pm
Nothing a little #4 copper plated shot won’t fix.
Brian
February 17, 2016 11:13 pm
Thump…. thump…what turkey?
EL Coyote
February 18, 2016 12:07 am
IndenturedServant
February 18, 2016 4:06 am
Had a flock of wild turkeys in my yard this weekend. There are two flocks that live on the south side of town that I know of. Both are straying into new territory since the windstorm in Nov. destroyed their favorite roosts. Each year the F&W folks find and locate their nests and paint the majority of their eggs with a substance that causes the embryos to die. We’ve got skunks, deer, raccoon, moose, coyotes, mountain lion, marmots, fox and other critters living right in the city limits. Black bears are seen regularly on the outskirts of town. I live on corner lot so I essentially have four yards….front, back and two sides. I’ve fenced the back and alley side to give the dogs a safe place to run and play without being chained. The rest of the yard is not fenced. I regularly urinate around the outside perimeter of the fenced section and never have a problem with any wild critters there but the rest of the yard gets regular visits from everything except the moose, lions and bears.
BUCKHED
February 18, 2016 6:22 am
Turkey season opens in S.C. on March 20th . If he lived here I’d take care of him . He’d be sleeping with the dressing .
Scooby
February 20, 2016 2:21 pm
starrfcker, I drive a trash truck,one morning on the road near my house ,a flock of turkey’s were crossing to my neighbors feeding area,suddenly ole tom broke off from his bitches and puffed up and advanced towards my truck seriously pissed off. As soon as his bitches were off the road he hauled ass. I laughed my head off,I mean he was fearlessly attacking a 20 ton truck funny as hell.
That’s what the horn is for.
Wrong. That is what the bumper is for.
Ratso Rizzo: “I’m walking here! I’m walking here!”
— screenplay, *Midnight Cowboy** (1969)
AKAnon, where I live they give you a big fine if you deliberately run over turkeys.
Hah-where I live, if you hit it, you eat it. Except moose-those you need to report (unless no one finds out).
Last year, I went to pick up a trac hoe from a buddy of mine, at dawn on a foggy morning. As I drove down his driveway, a turkey was running in front of my truck. It looked like a wild turkey to me, but this was in town, and we don’t have wild turkeys in urban broward county. It froze off the road, so I got out to take a picture with my phone. It started walking towards me, so I thought, the fucker’s tame. About that time the goddamn thing flew up and kicked me in the chest with both feet. Luckily it was a chilly morning and I had on a couple of sweatshirts, they have huge spurs on their feet. I beat the thing off of me and it flew away. Evidently that’s not uncommon behavior for frustrated wild turkeys to invade urban areas and attack.
Nothing a little #4 copper plated shot won’t fix.
Thump…. thump…what turkey?
Had a flock of wild turkeys in my yard this weekend. There are two flocks that live on the south side of town that I know of. Both are straying into new territory since the windstorm in Nov. destroyed their favorite roosts. Each year the F&W folks find and locate their nests and paint the majority of their eggs with a substance that causes the embryos to die. We’ve got skunks, deer, raccoon, moose, coyotes, mountain lion, marmots, fox and other critters living right in the city limits. Black bears are seen regularly on the outskirts of town. I live on corner lot so I essentially have four yards….front, back and two sides. I’ve fenced the back and alley side to give the dogs a safe place to run and play without being chained. The rest of the yard is not fenced. I regularly urinate around the outside perimeter of the fenced section and never have a problem with any wild critters there but the rest of the yard gets regular visits from everything except the moose, lions and bears.
Turkey season opens in S.C. on March 20th . If he lived here I’d take care of him . He’d be sleeping with the dressing .
starrfcker, I drive a trash truck,one morning on the road near my house ,a flock of turkey’s were crossing to my neighbors feeding area,suddenly ole tom broke off from his bitches and puffed up and advanced towards my truck seriously pissed off. As soon as his bitches were off the road he hauled ass. I laughed my head off,I mean he was fearlessly attacking a 20 ton truck funny as hell.