So, I recently wrote a Post about learning new skills, e.g. Turkey Hunting.
Practicing. Took awhile to site in that scope.
I have a couple of turkey flocks crossing my yard a couple of times a day and roosting in my forests. And, they have a pretty nice nature preserve here: according to Indiana Hunting Laws, you can’t hunt within 500 feet of a habitation, so I have NO HUNTING signs posted in the National Forest 500 feet from my property. Well, maybe 750 feet just to be sure, and like, you can’t be too careful such things, and like where exactly your property lines are.
So, last week I shot a Turkey with an arrow.
I watched a bunch of YouTube videos about how to skin turkeys and slice out the good meat. And bought a very very very very sharp knife at Bear Hardware in Nashville to do this work.
And even though the arrow didn’t make a sound, I haven’t seen a Turkey in my yard since then. So, even though they are all now safe on my little preserve, I’ve chased them all away into the National Forest where there are hunters with shotguns! I’d like to assure my turkey flocks that all the rest of them are all safe, but don’t think I could communicate that to them.
SO … next year … I’ll leave them at peace on my protected property until a day before hunting season ends, and then shoot one. Maybe do the same thing for the deer and anything else I “hunt”. I put “hunt” in parenthesis; I should have just said “kill”.
And, just after I wrote the above, I looked out the window and saw one of my Turkey Flocks! But, in the future, I’ll still wait till the very end of hunting season before I kill one, to ensure that I don’t scare my animals friends away into the un-safe spaces around me before the end of hunting season.
I’m still learning.
And, I’ll add one more thing (Segway into wolves). These turkeys, who I think are pretty smart, have been living here even with Nashoba being here, and we walking on patrol where the roost. I’m sure Nashoba and the turkeys had an understanding.