These are some brave turkeys.
 

I was driving from Toledo to Dayton, OH on I-75 last week when I had to take a wiz. I pulled over at a rest stop, and when I was walking up to the restroom building I saw some very large birds, then it hit me, those are turkeys. I was able to snap a couple of pictures with my camera phone. I thought this was pretty strange, I've seen turkeys in the woods but I've never gotten very close to them. I actually got within two feet of one of them and he was worked into a corner between the building and trash can. I thought about grabbing one and having my buddy snap a picture of me holding it but there were some people around and with my luck one them would have belonged to PETA, my dad said that it would have messed me up if I tried to grab it anyway.

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Yes brave birds.

If you ever want to try grabing a turkey , Tell me so I can tape it .
The turkey may beat you to a pulp with it's wings. :):)

We or I could send it to funniest vidios and make some $$ LOL

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Also if you try to pick one up have lots of bandaids on hand those
wing feathers are like razor blades.

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My guess is with all of the snow cover they are looking to score a meal or two.

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I am fortunate as to my place of work is in a large section of woods. I see turkey everyday in flocks and yes, they are wild. They come to the big glass windows and stare at themselves all day long until someone walks close to them. It is quite comical and unbelieveable the time they spend in front of the glass admiring themselves if left alone.

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My buddy and I were out scouting for turkey's once and driving by this farmstead and saw some out in the field. We stopped and the walked towards us, kept walking, and one of them JUMPED ON THE HOOD OF THE TRUCK! He wouldn't get off either. We had to start driving again. Would of been a different story if we were huntin' them though.

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Yep, with that snow on the ground it also drives the turkeies down to the lower elevations in which they do here also, for some reason they know where the city limits is around here too. ;) Bobby

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cool pics

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Try doing that with a shotgun in your hands....yeah, right!!

By the way, those are pictures from your camera phone?? Really great, clear pictures. That is impressive.

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Both brave and stupid lol

Cool pictures though :)

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It was an older camera phone too, not one of the newer super fancy ones. I actually got a new camera phone in between now and the time I took the above photos and the new one will take pictures about ten times as well as the old one.

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This is Ohio. Between toledo and dayton is nothing but lower elavations. Around toledo is about the flatest in the state. Were waiting for the landfill to become full so the kids can have a hill to slide down in the winter.

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Not many turkeys in that part of the state! I'm impressed you saw any!

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You made a good choice not latching onto a wild turkey. Even though I didn't see a rope in the pics... I would'nt want to see you or anyone get spurred. Ouch, now that would leave a mark.

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hmmmmm. Wild turkeys at a highway rest stop in Ohio looking for a meal?

http://www.officer.com/article/artic...ion=1&id=21464

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Wow, I might have run into the same group of rogue turkeys. The rest stop was near the southern border of Hancock County. If these birds are going around harasing armed Highway Patrolmen there is no telling what they're capable of. I could have had my hands full trying to snap a picture with one of them.

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hey kodiac about where you from in NW ohio i live up there to in henry county[8D]
just wonderin to make sure yur not huntin near my property:eek:

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I'm from Toledo, but I normally hunt the Wayne National Forrest, Michigan UP, and sometimes out in Pioneer.

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Hey nieghbors.
Wood county boy. Former Toledo native, Devilbiss grad. Would like to move to Henry county (much lower tax). You guys ever take advantage of Clelands range? Been thinking about checking it out. Here they have a good kids program. Got 5 that I'd like to fan the flames in.

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nodog

you better not come to henry county i hear it has horrible deer hunting
and the tax is cheap in some areas but the Patrick Henry School district where i am from has some of the highest income taxes and now we have high property taxes also it is a good school but it is just to expensive

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cool pics!!
stupid turkeys

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Lol very nice pics. Really nice to be so close to such a nice animal.

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I've shot at the Pistol range a couple of times; I haven't been there since that guy shot himself though (too creepy.) I've never used the archery range; I live in West Toledo on the Michigan line so Clelands is every bit of 30 minutes away or more so I don't get out their much. I belong to Tomahawk in Erie Mich, and shoot there quite often.

I guess Matt Cleland teaches the kids program, so it has to be good; seeing that he was on the US National Team.

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I hear ya. It's a drive for me, but mine would at least not be through town. Never heard about the shooting.

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A guy went in there about 6 months ago, rented a pistol, put one bullett in the chamber, and then shot himself with it on the range .

This was right in the beginning of Deer Season and my buddy had his bow in there being worked on at the time of the suicide. After that happened they shut Clelands down for like a week, and my friends season was post poned a week until he could get in there and get his bow back.