Hey guys. I'm the guy that dropped out. I have a funny story to tell. I live in DeBeque, CO, and it's good turkey habitat to the North-West, up along a creek. Everywhere else is kind of a desert, but turkeys may live there too. I do a lot of hiking and hunting in the desert area, and have never seen turkeys there before. Once, a long time ago, we saw a big flock roosting in a tree near us. No idea where they come from. If they came from the West, they'd have to cross the freeway. Well, today I was checking a muskrat trap, and I heard a gobble behind me. I turned to look, and saw a bid Tom Turkey try to get through a fence. I thought it was someone's turkey that had gotten away, so I drove over to pick it up and find the owner, since we live in the farming area. I got over there and played tag with that turkey for five minutes, before I realized that if I got hold of him, he would have killed me if I got him. He ran off and started walking down the road, so I asked around and everyone said he was roosting in a tree near there that night. I went home and we talked about it, and realized that it was a wild turkey. I don't have a tag, but I could get one, but I'd probably never find him, unless he was on private land. I should have caught him, locked him up, and on April 2nd, shoot him LOL! So the turkeys are gobbling in Colorado, and are out and about. Hope to be with ya'll next year.
Boone.