Hunting with another person gives you a chance to use different call techniques and while only one may get the shot there's always the next big one just waiting. Using someone else to call also frees the other person to be ready at the first sight and not clumsily reaching for the gun and calling at the same time. The wild turkey can range many miles in a day's search for food and eats many a pound of insect and seeds along the way. A well-planned plot can help keep the birds in your area and with a better food source to produce a trophy well worth the effort. The beautiful coloring and plumage results from good diets.
Wild turkeys are the largest and also the most alert of the game birds in North America.
They have also become one of wildlife management's greatest successes in that by the 1930's some experts suggested that there where only around 25,000 turkeys remaining in the United States. But through strict hunting regulations and various preservation programs the turkey was enable to make a dramatic comeback. Nowadays the turkey is doing great it can now be found in all of the 48 lower states. Especially in the area of Kentucky and North Carolina where populations have exploded provoking great interest in these great game birds and their habitat needs. The turkey is perhaps the king of all game birds, it makes its' nest in trees and on the ground and is ken to the quail and the grouse.