RE: Turkey Diary!
I've been keeping a detailed journal almost from the very beginning, and it now encompasses 13 volumes covering 863 days of the past 20 seasons that I've spent turkey hunting. I keep a wide variety of details such as time of first gobble and flydown, weather conditions, number of turkeys heard, seen, and called in, calls used and results, etc. Then I write a page or two about how the hunt progressed and the things I saw or learned along the way. The journal is one piece of equipment that is ALWAYS in my vest, and I'd feel lost if I ever forgot it. Makes those slow spells in the field pass more quickly, and as you said, all it takes is the reading of a portion of any particular passage, and the memories and excitement of that day come flooding back even decades later. Some day I hope to put a portion of it all down as a book.