Lifestyle: Now We're Talking Turkey
I've hunted wild ducks, grouse, pheasants and other game birds with varying levels of enthusiasm for 40 years.
My mouth was as parched as cotton balls. My heart pounded. My sweaty hands shook as I gripped the gun.
My mouth was as parched as cotton balls. My heart pounded. My sweaty hands shook as I gripped the gun.

I've hunted wild ducks, grouse, pheasants and other game birds with varying levels of enthusiasm for 40 years. But I had never seen anything like this: two resplendent four-foot-tall adult male wild turkeys, all bronze and black and iridescent, galloping on stilt-like legs across a cattle pasture the size of two football fields. And on this sparkling spring afternoon, they were racing right toward me!

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