Thanks BPS, lol naw but I DID sleep in a Holiday Inn Express lastnight! I just enjoy studying the game animals I chase and love so deeply.

The turkey is really an amazing animal in just about ANY aspect. What amazes me more than their flying and running skills is their hearing and eyesight. Their cautiousness and ability to detect danger is simply breathtaking at times. I used to get so mad some days and just cuss em and ask why they were so danged cautious. That is until a buddy of mine put it fairly simple and it made ALOT of sense too me. He said, "From the time they fall out their mommas rearend they are sought out by predators. Each day is a day of survival for them. And at every stage in life something, usually several somethings, is looking to make a meal out of them. When you think about it they basically are a buffet on legs"!!!

LOL that has made about as much sense to me as ANYTHING I have ever heard with regards too turkeys. The only downside (for the turkeys! ) is they were only given a marble sized brain. If they had the reasoning skills of many other big game animals I doubt we would even be able to get close enough too them to even THINK about getting a shot at them.

And ohhhhhhhhh those gorgeous colors in the spring sunlight. They are truely natures own"disco ball",
RA