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558 



Getting a Turkey Under 
Difficulties 
How Woodcraft and Caution Won the Day 
By DONALD M. McNEALE 
when a full-grown gobbler flew up 
into a big dead chestnut tree to 
roost for the night. I was squatting 
down by an old rail fence about a hun- 
dred and twenty-five yards from the 
turkey, and realizing that it would not 
begin to get dark until five o’clock, I 
knew that I would have to remain 
practically motionless for three quar- 
ters of an hour. I. was in a fairly 
comfortable position, and this lucky 
event was greatly in my favor. The 
turkey went through the customary 
antics of craning his neck in every 
conceivable position 
searching for a foe, 
and more than once I 
thought he had _§ spied 
me, but my deathlike 
stillness prevented any 
alarm on his part. He 
shifted his position to 
different limbs a half 
dozen times, and as he 
did so I could plainly 
see his beard, which 
was about ten inches 
long, sticking out from 
a beautiful bronze coat 
of feathers. He con- 
tinued these precau- 
tionary methods for 
twenty minutes or so before he finally 
settled down on a limb, but even then 
his head stuck out in every direction, 
especially below, in an effort to detect 
danger. By now it had begun to get 
a little dusky, and presently I saw him 
stick his head behind his wing and I 
knew it was my move next. 
[: was a few minutes after four 
ORTUNATELY for me there was 
another big tree about forty yards 
from the turkey, and directly between 
him and me. As soon as I knew that 
I could move without the probability 
of being seen or heard, I took the pre- 
caution to chalk my gun barrel, as I 
knew that it would be quite dark by 
the time I got a shot at him. This 
accomplished, I carefully mapped out 
my course, and decided on the exact 
position I would take when I fired. As 
I had about eighty yards to cover, I 
decided to crawl, as in this way I 
was not nearly so apt to lose my bal- 
ance which would probably result in 
enough noise to flush the turkey from 
his roost. I crept as cautiously as 
possible, being’ careful to keep the tree, 

which was my objective, always be- 
tween the turkey and me. In order to 
do this I at. one time had to lay my 
gun down, take my knife out and cut 
down a bush which was directly in 
my path. 
B* the time I reached my objec- 
tive, from which I expected to 
shoot, it was so dark that I wasn’t 
absolutely certain that the thing I was 
looking at wasn’t a bump on the limb, 
although I had used all possible care 
in marking his exact location. I 
brought my gun to my shoulder and 
tried to sight down the 
barrel, and alas, — it 
was so dark that the 
chalk did no good. The 
despairing thought 
now came to me that 
all of my patient wait- 
ing had been in vain. 
I brought my gun up 
to my shoulder several 
times with the hope 
that my eyes might 
have become accus- 
tomed to the darkness, 
but the end of the bar- 
rel was entirely invisi- 
ble. All I could hope 
to do was to point the 
gun as nearly as I could at the dimly 
silhouetted bump on the limb which I 
hoped was the turkey; not very en- 
couraging prospects. I used all the 
precision that guesswork would allow 
in aiming, and, trembling all over, I 
pulled one barrel. The bump rose to 
a standing position, and while I knew 
that I had not been mistaken in the 
location of the bird, at the same time 
I realized that I had missed him clean. 
| Pee was no time to hesitate, and 
I trained my gun on him again 
and pulled the other barrel. The gob- 
bler then disappeared from sight and 
I experienced three seconds of the 
deepest gloom. I then heard a heavy 
thud on the ground, followed by the 
sound of the turkey running away 
through the woods. 
From this point on, the sequence of 
events was so rapid that I cannot 
swear to the accuracy of all details, 
but will give them in accordance with 
my best recollection. Quickly reload- 
ing my gun I dove through a rail fence 
(Continued on page 563) 
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