Smoking Piney wrote:woodenvisions wrote:Smoking Piney wrote:It was definitely cool to see this big boy strut!
I love to see them come into my yard. I've been within a few feet of them and they don't care.
We also have a flock of Guinea hens roaming our neighborhood - my yard welcomes you to eat all of my ticks.
Nature cracks me up when these Toms get all worked up looking to impress the ladies !!
I had one a few days ago " all puffed up " in the middle of the road holding up traffic like a crossing guard !! His " girls " were all lined up across the street ready for Prom Night lolol !
They are almost as bad as the Bucks during Rutt Season, just less damage done to our cars
Turkeys rock when they strut. I feel privileged to see this that close.
It was cool.
This may sound far fetched but I'm dead serious. Whatever you do, DON'T get in between him and his future dates when he's in full display and his beard is blood red. It will only end up bad for you unfortunately....
True story here :::
I've been riding Enduro Dirt Bikes since I was a kid so probably 40+ years.
Back in 2005 I was taking a run with my brother in law from Morris County Nj to the Delaware Water Gap via the abandoned rr tracks. Most of the railroad bed was missing the tracks, just the ties were left so some sections we could put the hammer down and sometimes find 5th !
We both had KTM's, his was a 250 and I had a 380, both 2 strokes.
We came up on a section that was about 1/2 mile long with no ties or tracks and was smooth as can be but very quickly turned into some pretty deep whoops.
We allways looked forward to this section to try and beat each other to the other end and we both knew the Only chance he had was for him to get a considerably long head start so this one particular day he was asleep and as soon as it was clear I scooped him and was gone.
These were strictly Enduro bikes but mine was a set up for motocross as well so I had no Speedo. But, we both knew that if we found 5th, we were knocking on a trip to the ER if we went down going that fast on a railroad bed with those stones.
I just hit 5th , woods on both sides of us and I caught a glimpse of something about 3 or 4 feet off the ground flying thru the trees!!
Before I knew it, this HUGE Wild Turkey came out in the open Directly in my line about what I would guess was about 50 feet away, chest high !!
It literally looked like a hi end camera when you hit full zoom !!
I came up on this bird so fast all I could do was lean back, turn my head and grab a handful of front brake and lay on the rear brake and hope I didn't go off the path into a tree !!
Next think I knew, this Turkey hit me dead center in my chest towards my neck/helmet area. It was flapping its wings like crazy trying to get off of me.
Now, I NEVER ride ever without Riding Boots, a Helmet with Goggles and especially a Chest Protector !!
I quickly came to a stop and almost went down but surprisingly saved it. I could hear my brother in law behind me laughing uncontrollably, telling me he had a front row seat for the show and said without a doubt, if it was on camera we would be GUARANTEED to win AFHV !!
No lie, the impact felt like someone punched me in my Chest Protector and what really Shocked me was the absolute Raw Power that came from a Turkeys Wings.
For 3 days, my ribs and chest were sore.
Lol, honest to God true story....
We often bring this up for laughs and ur pics and post made me think about that again
