Turkeys...the new predator?

[RemingtonDoesItAgain]

Today when I was fencing at my farm I saw the oddest thing I have seen in a long time. I routinely see woodchucks roaming around, then I go get my Remington M700 VSSF II .22-250 and put a 40 grain Ballistic Tip into em'. But today as I saw the firstchuck of theyear, I noticed three hens and what I thought was a jake to its left. They continued to move over towards thewoodchuck until it they were mearly feet from it. It began to waddle away whenall 4 turkeysstarted to chase it and were clucking, putting and just carrying on while theypursuedthe little chuck all over the field. They went backand forth and started to scratch it and peck at it until it fianlly struck back andI believe bit one of the birds. Then it scurried back down its hoel andthe turkeys kept on running aorund the hole for minutes util they moved off when the notcied me walking to the tractor. Does anyone have an explanation, or maybe this just was a freak happening. What ever it was, it was neat and I love to see nature at its best, or worst! Good hunting!

[wingchaser_labs]

Dunno but turkeys are a terrible predator in a sense. Ever wonder why the grouse populations are terrible in areas where the turkeys are high in numbers. Well its cuz turkeys will run down and kill chicks and live in the same nesting habbitats that grouse do. Sunny hill sides with thick underbrush and food sources. Look at WI years ago when turkeys where just being introduced. Grouse populations where very high throughout alot of WI and in my arguement I mean not just the northern half. My dad has picks of when he was my age with a tail gate line of grouse, and I'm from west central WI. Now today I'm lucky if we see 5 grouse on a whole afternoon of hunting let alone try to get a shot on a couple and hit one or maybe two if lucky. This is why the grouse populations are still great in northern WI. There aren't hardly any turkeys there yet but just wait they are on the move and soon all of WI except for the northern lake shore is gonna be depleted in grouse numbers. Don't get me wrong I love to hunt turkeys and are one of my favorites to hunt but I think if I had to make the decission I would rather have the numbers between grouse and turkeys be flipped. WCL

[swamp rooster]

Yep i had a bunch of hens chase some big canada geese clear out of the field a bunch of times..

[lil hammer]

stupid chuck mighta been messin w/ the nest

[Higgy15jh]

ill go with lil hammer... they might be looking for nesting sites and the chuck was a little to close.

[TROPHYHUNTER25]

i would say you have some bad a?? turkeys lol

[RemingtonDoesItAgain]

Well, maybe the hens were trying to find a nest, but it doesnt matter now cause he got the .22-250 today at lunch break. i dont think the turkeys will have to worry about him anymore.