Yeah, those deep fat turkey fryers were popular about five years ago, then people took up tipping them over by mistake which cooked them from the knee caps down. Lawsuits galore.

Next season I'm going to my property in Northern Calif, which is coated with Turkey. I'll shoot them with my GH...or maybe my Sterlingworth which has an extremely tight full choked barrel. Then I'll see if my wife can cook one. I'm a partner in 1300 acres...hard hunting tho...the place is covered with poison oak.

your one lucky fella to have a lot of turkeys on his place..as you this is my favorite bird or game to hunt...the turkey as become a legend he is as sharp eyed as a eagle and can hear a pin drop..it has been sais if a turkey could smell as good as a deer it would be almost impossible to get...only 7 days left till i can chase this magnificent bird again...think i m gona tote a tite choked 12 for the first day too...charlie

Last year, hunting turkeys at my cousin's farm in Ohio, a mature section of hardwoods we hunted had an carpet-like understory of poison ivy as far as we could see. When we were sitting in it calling and watching birds the poison ivy was almost up to our shoulders.

You go where the birds are!

Neither of us got 'the itch'... but we were very careful handling our hunting clothes when we came in.

We do a good bit of controlled burning in these parts which makes turkey hunting much more pleasant. No crackling of leaves, no poison ivy and fewer ticks and redbugs. The downside here is the land is flat and open and the turkeys can see for a long way around.

WARNING:

DO NOT STAND DOWNWIND OF BURNING POISON IVY----- You WILL wind up in the hospital with SEVERE respiratory problems.

Yikes! That makes sense. I have not participated in controlled burning in years, but will remember that.

Geez. I sure hope you are not speaking from experience.:eek:

Not my own experience, but that of a very close childhood friend who came very close to losing his life due to the severe inflamation, pus, and swelling in his lungs. He is still highly susceptible to pneumonia even today.

That is scary. I have never been a victim of that stuff and hope I never am. Dad has a fair amount of it in his woods and I don't like walking through it. Julia's family farm has very little of it but that is now leased out.

This will help get everyone in the mood.