Well my buddy and I use to watch turkey huntin on ESPN all the time. And he wanted to try it and I was a little sceptical about it because that was something that Boys from the South and East did. Out West our big hunt was Elk. BUt after a couple of years I said what the heck, mainly because of all the cool " Hunting gadgets" we could buy. So we started setting up a trip, and my Wife set me up with this guy to take us. My buddy could' nt go,work got in the way. So I went. First day I started seeing thes huge birds all over and I actually missed 2 big Rios that day and I was hooked. Actually the 2nd bird I watched feathers come off his neck when I shot, but he proceeded to take flight and land about a mile away on a ridge? Sure hope the ole' boy survived, I felt real bad. So after two more years of hunting and scouting, I was usually pleased with the season if where I hunted actually had sign that a turkey had been in the area in the past few months. With them planting them all over it took a lot of work to find a flock sometimes. So my first bird I was actually scouting during the season. Thought to myself, I know ther are birds w/in a couple of miles of here. SO I fired up a box call to try and locate, while standing ther a Jake just comes walking out and I don' t know who was more stunned, him or me. Well turned out he was, because I was able to get my gun up and finish the deal. Walking back to the truck I realized this was as exciting as Deer Hunting. Little di I know that when you make a plan, set up, do battle with a gobbler and get him to come in at full strut was SO MUCH more exciting then Deer hunting,(finally bagged one that way this year) that there isn' t anything that will ever get in my way to keep me from Turkey hunting from now on. I' ve told my Wife that if there ever did become a choice between Turkey and Deer, I would give up Deer. Let' s hope that never happens