14 LAKESIDE
April 2022
Here’s my vote as North America’s No. 1 big game target So, you’re an Eastern Wild Turkey hunter. Just starting or a seasoned veteran? Doesn’t matter. My message to you is applicable whatever your status. Before getting to the guts of my dissertation today, let me establish that the Eastern bird’s numbers have been declining rather dramatically over the last 10 years. Why? Well, a combination of things: natural birthing changes, increase in predators, loss of habitat, over-hunting, untimely weather – lot’s of circumstances and much too long to discuss here. Trust the words of the Georgia Department of Natural Resources, the poult production is about half of what it was 20 years or so ago. We just don’t have as many Easterns as we did and the DNR is making changes that will help in upcoming seasons. The point of this discussion today is this: I’m about to give you the reasons why the Eastern Wild Turkey is the No. 1 big game animal in North America. Why? Well, you must be talented, practiced, experienced, knowledgeable, more patient and note more details in more different tactics in combination at the same
is unsurpassed. Display an unusual color or move the slightest O’Neill and will see you and the hunt is Williams over. He is not naturally curious and if the situation is not perfect O’Neill and what he expects, he promptly Outside departs. Shot placement matters. You can shoot ducks and quail on the wing but if you don’t correctly place your shot on the Tom, he’ll n MORE INFO: likely fly or trot away. As the prewww.oneilloutside.com mier “Turkey Writer” in the busitime than for any other game ani- ness today, Tom Kelley, would say, a misplaced shot is simply mal. Let’s take a look. food for wild cats and you return You make a call like a lonely to camp alone. turkey hen and get a response OK, my challenge to you is for from a Tom and your call is not you to put the parts together and just an attractant as a matter of see if any other big game animal fact, it’s opposite of the animal’s requires so much at the same practice. Your hen call is an answer to his call. You can call deer, time, same day, same minute, elk, mule deer, moose, ducks and same hour. If you’re into hunting Eastthen they are naturally attracted to erns, stick with it, if not, start, but you. The Eastern’s natural practice is for you to come to him. No recognize that you’ve accepted other game animal does this. Are quite a job, one unmatched in the sport of Big Game hunting in you practiced enough to call in a North America.. manner that recognizes and O’Neill Williams has been a matches his mood? You need to television, radio and print perunderstand that requirement and sonality for more than 40 years that necessitates a mountain of experience and time in the woods. and more recently has added podAre you cameoed up and ultra casts and video on demand to his O’Neill with an Eastern Wild Turkey. repertoire. stealthy? The Eastern’s eyesight
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