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Post by spence on May 1, 2022 14:18:07 GMT -7
I'm thinking of trying a different method this year. I hate getting up early enough to be on stand when they are coming off the roost. William N. Blane, _An Excursion through the United States and Canada, during the Years 1822-3 by an English Gentleman_ pg. 279 "The manner in which great numbers of wild turkeys are caught is very simple and curious. A Pen is made by placing rough-hewn rails one above another so as to form a vacant space, about six or eight feet long and as many broad, which is closed at the top by heavy rails laid across. A small trench is then dug for a yard or two on the outside and continued under the lowest rail into the interior. In this trench some Indian corn is strewed, and the turkeys, while employed in picking it up, advance with their head downwards into the Pen. As soon as they find themselves in the enclosure, these stupid birds never think of stooping down, or they could walk out as easily as they walked in; but instead of this they try to force a way out at the top and sides, and continue jumping about in great alarm, till some one in the course of the day visits the Pen and secures them. I have known of as many as seven or eight caught within four and twenty hours in a single Pen." I probably should check with the neighborhood game warden first. Spence books.google.com/ebooks/reader?id=6mwFAAAAQAAJ&printsec=frontcover&output=reader&pg=GBS.PA2
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Post by spence on May 1, 2022 16:11:43 GMT -7
Ha! Repeated myself in the same thread. That's a new record, I'm so proud.
Growing old is not for sissies. Have I said that here before?
Spence
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Post by brokennock on May 1, 2022 22:51:06 GMT -7
Ha! Repeated myself in the same thread. That's a new record, I'm so proud. Growing old is not for sissies. Have I said that here before? Spence Might have. I know I've quoted it from somewhere. We won't hold it against you if you have. I'm with you on disagreement with getting up to be un position for the birds to cinema off the roost. I like the pen idea, but I'm sure the warden won't...
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