Wild Turkey Report

Wild Turkey Report is the web's source for information on turkey hunting. Advocates for active management of wild turkeys and the places they call home.

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Great Facebook Live with @DrDisturbance on our favorite management tool-prescribed fire! Link below to watch: https://t.co/urhwe35Wj6

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@_Rhill_07 They’ll start whenever they want. Can’t base regulations around illegal activity, gotta do what’s best for the resource. Our numbers are coming back and it would be unwise to change that right now IMO.

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AL youth season was today and based on the sheer amount of pics, the turkeys are in the right frame of mind

It’s almost like seasons starting later means better hunting or something

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When strutting, the network of smooth muscles that connect to feather follicles raise and lower contour feathers on the body. These feathers are arranged in tracts, so their movement looks like a slinky! What a display! ⁦@wildturkeylab⁩ ⁦@NWTF_official⁩

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My response when someone asks me what that is around my neck (it’s a trumpet call)

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I think I’d prefer fried turkey and cheese grits to a Ruth’s Chris steak

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When a group of gobblers whips you for the 3rd hunt in a row

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A wild turkey’s snood, the fleshy tissue that hangs from the forehead over the beak, serves many functions. Helps attract hens, dissipates heat when a tom displays, and hens can assess a tom’s fitness potential via snood length ⁦@wildturkeylab⁩ ⁦@NWTF_official⁩

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Should be a good amount of smoke over the southeast the next few days 🔥🔥🔥

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Most insane acorn crop I can ever remember. Acres upon acres of this.

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When someone is watching a fanning/reaping video

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Burning hardwoods can have some huge benefits, especially in heavy mast crop years:

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#goodfire

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@wildturkeydoc @wildturkeylab @NWTF_official we finally saw a big group of chicken sized poults this past weekend

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Poults need abundant insects to support rapid growth and feather development. Insects thrive in early successional plant communities, which often require disturbance to maintain. Is anyone seeing poults/broods? ⁦@wildturkeylab⁩ ⁦@NWTF_official⁩

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Wild turkeys with multiple beards or spurs are unique and prized to turkey hunters. Why some toms have >1 beard or spur on a leg is unclear, but the primary beard or spur is usually longer. Anyone shot a tom with >1 beard or spur? ⁦@wildturkeylab⁩ ⁦@NWTF_official⁩

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How is the turkey population in your area?

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@DruryOutdoors like Uncle Fox says, “you’ll forget about it in about 15 or 20 years”

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Yeah I’ll quit before I do that

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Not sure the turkey I hunted this morning ever flew down out of the tree, or if he ever will. He may just stay there for eternity

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Hey while they’re bringing back dire wolves can they bring back the gene that makes turkeys gobble good