Growing up in eastern Wisconsin in the 1970s and early 80s we didn’t have turkey hunting at home. Though the family’s small farm shared a line fence with the Kettle Moraine State Forest, wild turkeys weren’t reintroduced there until I was a teenager. A huntable population was years away.
While my dad was my greatest influence in learning to hunt deer, upland birds and waterfowl, we never shared a turkey hunt. (I don’t have a lot of regrets in my life, but that’s one of them.) My turkey hunting education started 26 years ago as a straight-out-of-school associate editor for North American Hunter magazine. In that role I was lucky enough to experience the tutelage of some of America’s greatest hunters – the guys who carried over the turkey hunting skills nearly lost when only a few states retained huntable birds. I’m honored to have shared hunts with Ben Rogers Lee and J. Wayne Fears…
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