There is one thing in the woods that is really exciting and that is turkey hunting. Turkeys will get your heart racing and you blood rushing and have you shaking in just five seconds. When he comes up there strutting,spitting,and drumming, that’s when it gets real. When you hit that “yawt yawt” and he cuts you off gobbling that is when you know that he is just as good as dead. I am gonna tell plenty of turkey hunting experiences that i have had so i do not have to have a works cited page or nothing. The only works cited i need is my mind and memory. You can also tells a few lies when you are turkey hunting too. Just like fishing. I am gonna start with a turkey I killed the other morning. Me and a man was going to a place where he heard six one morning and we get there for about an hour and didn’t hear a …show more content…
Turkeys are the smartest animals there is in my opinion other than a dog, they cover the most ground other than a coyote. They roost where no other animals can get them. They know when they see something that they do not like. They will either run or fly or stay there where nothing can see them. In the fall time all the gobblers stay together in groups and all the hens stay together in a group. But in the springtime they split up and the hens yelp when they fly down out the tree and the gobblers will gobble back to it if they do not have a hen already with them or around them. If he does not he will come to a hen just as fast as possible and will know right where it is. They are very smart and intelligent and pretty animals and they know what is the right thing to do and what is not the right thing to do. They always try to roost in the same place every evening where they are safe. You always see them during deer season and duck season but when turkey season comes in you do not really see them at all. They know they are getting pressured. They are educated from other hunters shooting at
In Growing Up Hard the writer Joe Wilkins talks about his life growing up on the Big Dry and living in Montana. He begins mentioning how his family had little money, so for food they depended on the animals on the land. He went into detail on how he helped his father and grandmother kill chickens for a Sunday dinner. When his father died, his grandfather taught him to hunt. The writer’s detailed description of his first hunt by himself from what he smelled to tasting dust helped me imagine what exactly went on at the time of the kill.
If the hunter gets too anxious, then he might scare the animal away, but there is a way to fix that. Many hunters wear ghillie suits. These suits will make the hunter blend in with his surroundings. However, they can be annoying and sometimes get in the way of the shot. Rifle Hunting
In The Most Dangerous Game, Richard Connell suggests that the hunter is not that different from the hunted when the big game hunter Rainsford becomes general Zaroff’s prey. Rainsford believes that hunting is a game because he doesn’t value the lives of the animals he hunts. When conversing with his hunting companion Whitney, Rainsford presents his view of the subject by stating that, ”You’re a big-game hunter, not a philosopher. Who cares how a jaguar feels?”(92). Contradicting his superior’s opinion, Whitney suggests that “they understand one thing—fear. The fear of pain and the fear of death.
They do this so there is enough food in the woods for the deer to survive. We asked Owen why he does this and he said “I do this for the enjoyment ,and joy of being in the wood also my family eats the meat.” Hunters also pay for their tags and this money is used to manage the land for the deer. Now you see why it is so important to hunt for the land and for the
Fall seasons occur when turkeys are in flocks, and the typical fall hunt strategy is to "bust up" or "scatter" a flock of turkeys, and then use turkey calls to bring the game back Turkey hunters usually wear full camouflage,
Turkeys are one of the many animals that have great eye sight which requires the hunter to be as still as they possibly can. The primary weapon used by many hunters is a shotgun because of it’s effective range. Turkey Hunters use a blind because it makes them invisible to the turkey which allows them to get ready to take the shot when the time comes. Using a turkey call can and will help the hunter locate the turkeys while also drawing them into range.
You would be surprised how much more enjoyable and successful your hunts will be if you remember to laugh along the way. As the old saying goes, “Never get so caught up in the results that you forget to enjoy the journey,” and most importantly, stay safe out there. This “never give up” attitude is where the prominent North Carolina duck hunting duo of Jackson and Lane excel in countless ways. Being some of the most gutsy and spirited duck hunters this state has to offer, these tried-and-true outdoorsmen have had their fair share of trials and tribulations that act as a living testimony to their extreme dedication and reverence for the sport we all
After six weeks, the crows seemed to scold the volunteer more and more even if they were not holding anything in their hands. However, if the volunteer was wearing a different latex mask, the crows seemed to attack them less. The crows were also more hesitant to approach the food on days where a volunteer holding a crow approached them but they were not affected at all by a pigeon-holding volunteer. This shows that crows have an acute sense of where and when they are in danger and that they can all follow precautions so they don’t end up like their comrade. This is a fairly important feature because it shows that they have more advanced cognitive skills which is pretty consistent in animals that live in social groups such as dolphins and
Every year, almost 50 million turkeys get slaughtered for Thanksgiving, and this is only U.S. Us turkeys lose dear family members every year to this treacherous “holiday” that celebrates the deaths of innocent creatures such as myself. Since the day I was born, my parents and others of our flock warned me about the dangers of going near humans during the month of November. Our flock is domesticated, meaning we lost the ability to fly, which made it much harder for me to get away when being captured. At a young age I was taught how to gobble, so I can give out distress calls to my family if I am in danger. Our sense of hearing is very keen, so my flock could be far away and still hear my cry for help.
People tend view of avian intelligence to be somewhere between that of a rat and a mosquito. Although it has long been known that some birds display exceptional behavioral, such as migrating or homing over long distances, building elaborate nests, fashioning and using tools, or singing complex songs these behaviors were assumed to be primarily natural, requiring little in the way of flexible cognitive capabilities. Recent research in avian cognition has proved otherwise (McMillan, Hahn, Spetch, & Sturdy 2015). Songbirds’ singing and calling behavior also known as communication is critical to their survival as individuals and as species. Males produce song to attract a mate and to defend their territory, while females attend to these songs
Hunting requires patience, by sitting in a position for so long waiting for that animal you’re waiting for to come
“When nature calls you, answer.” Ever since I was very young, nature has always called me to enjoy her peaceful benefits. Growing up on a lake, I was fortunate to be on the doorstep of so many sights and sounds of the wild. When I turned twelve, I experienced duck hunting for the first time. There is something so calming about listening to the birds chirping at first light and hearing the many voices of the eager wood ducks getting ready to fly.
Soaking up the space and solitude, I linger for a while and realise how little I know about this bird. With no significant information at the park on the gull, I return to my apartment to do my own research. Coming from New Zealand where it is not naturalised, I am surprised to learn the adult birds have a chocolate brown head in summer. Having moulted when they arrive in Kunming, the birds have a dark smudge on each side of the face. Their natural diet consists of molluscs, worms, insects and fish.
If the world today gave up hunting, wildlife would become non existent and animals would struggle to thrive due to disease and overpopulation. Outdoorsmen also gain plentiful amount of experience while hunting. They gain relationships, knowledge of the outdoors, and they maintain an old tradition and keep it alive and thriving. In the future hunting may become an even more pressing and controversial subject; however, we must do everything in our power to keep hunting alive. Hunting has a deeper meaning to some people and to take that away from them is in some ways inhumane.
The first day if hunting we went into the Black Hills and did a lot if walking to find some deer. When we finally found some my brother was the first to shoot, since he picked the bigger straw out of three, which was how we decided who gets to shoot first, he missed. So I was next up and when we saw another deer it was really far away and it took my seven shits before I killed it. It wasn't even worth trying to kill it because it was just a fawn and I wasted seven shots killing it and that was the end of day one.