While all wild turkeys might seem the same, the idea that one acts just like the next couldn’t be further from the truth. Every gobbler is different, and some earn a reputation for being especially bad birds. Here are seven I’ve hunted in recent years that, through their unusual or unexpected behavior, provided valuable lessons.
This scenario played out on a typical creek-bottom and bluff setting where a long, winding timber ridge overlooks a series of fields below. I don’t have permission to hunt those fields, but I can hunt the rolling pastures and hay fields on the high side of the bluff.
A turkey I dubbed the Bluff Flyaway...