Thanks to a friend for putting us in touch with some lovely farmers, my partner and I have spent the last two sundays out chasing turkeys around on their land.
Our first trip out we didn't have much success, but we weren't expecting to go out hunting, we were only wanting to go and introduce ourselves to them, we ended up seeing a fair few out in the paddocks and we were able to get ourselves fairly familiar with some of the property. We were able to get a shot off at one as it was passing through the fence but the arrow ended up hitting the fencepost and breaking.
The next shot hit the same one but bounced right off the tail feathers, it was just after this that we ended up losing an arrow in one of the paddocks and had to stop for the day. We had spent a good half an hour to forty-five minutes looking for the arrow not wanting to leave it behind in their paddock, but they waved our concerns off and told us not to worry about it.
We headed out again today, fairly determined to catch one. We came across the first mob fairly quickly as they were right in the front of the property but decided to leave them be as they had chicks with them. The next lot we came across were roosted on a fallen tree and my partner was able to get a shot off at one. He was able to hit the turkey but it wasn't that easy. It took off running a good hundred metres before flying into the next paddock where he was able to get a second shot into it and it went down.
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All in all a good couple of trips and looking forward to cooking up the meat tomorrow night
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