First off, I'll say congrats to Mr Longbeard on his season. Secondly, a WILD turkey is a WILD turkey no matter what kind of land he is on. Some public places are harder to hunt than some private places and some private places are harder to hunt than some public places. Earlier this year I killed a turkey the same day as my buddy, we both shot them less than 30 minutes into shooting hours and had they toms fly down, we start calling and the birds walked in. He was on a heavily hunted public area, and I was on private ground that had only ever been hunted one other time for turkeys. That doesn't make him a better hunter than me, to end the story I'll say, I've been hunting turkeys for several years now, this was his first turkey hunt of his life! My point is, turkey hunting is fun and usually very challenging, no matter where you hunt.