RE: How important is the kill
We only get one male in the Spring and one of either sex in the Fall, so compared to deer hunting the kill isn't that important to me. I'm exclusively a meat hunter, and to turkeys just don't produce enough meat to get into a lather over. We get one buck and nearly unlimited antlerless, so I save my urge for the kill for them. I love to see turkeys in the woods, along with all the sights, smells, and sounds around me while hunting them, something that I don't get to enjoy as much when I'm trying to tag a freezer filler. There's a grey phase hen that's survived up until now, and she'd look real pretty on the ends of my arrows, if I see her first this Fall then I'll get excited about a turkey kill.