RE: how many years
I've spent 21 glorious springs in the turkey woods. In those years I've taken about 109 hunting trips to 33 different states, and usually hunt about 65-70 days per year in 8-10 states. Killed my first bird back in '83 (1st year) during an intense thunderstorm, and wrote a story about it for Outdoor Life that was published in Oct of '87.