Turkey

[HuntingGold]

I'm sitting here with my wife "out west" and those dirty birds are winning the day. Wind is not helping the matter.

That's my report from the turkey woods today.

 

[HuntingGold]

This was the last of my three birds of the year. I tried to post his pic with the other 2 yesterday but failed. Alas, here he is.

 

[Hunt anything]

@HuntingGold, are your birds classified as Rios or Merriums?

 

[HuntingGold]

Oregon does not have a Native population of wild turkeys. In the 50s and 60s the state introduced Easterns and Merriams. Those introduced populations just never took off, floundered. In the mid-80s the state tried Rios and those birds took off and in some areas bred with the holdover birds. So with all that, we have Rios with areas of hybrids.