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with honesty and objectivity if we want to be offered a shot. When a turkey tells me that I


am failing, sometimes a couple of hours in a rocking chair are enough to make me admit what I already knew. Sometimes it takes a day or two to figure out what it is that’s bothering me. This time was no different. A few days later I sat at the


base of a black locust watching the snowflake petals of the lo- cust bloom fall around me while I soaked my sense of smell with its ginger aroma. Just out of


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range was another turkey, and once again I was being weighed and measured. I recognized the bird. An ex-


tra bubbly waddle and a miss- ing tail feather let me know this was the third bird that had walked away a few days earlier. This time, however, he stepped from brush and walked into range in full strut. He dragged his wings through the spring-


time grass, leaving a wiggly trail in the morning dew. He danced in circles showing his fan from every angle and hummed the spit and drum of a strutting turkey. I had made muster with this


turkey, and had been offered more than just a shot at one of nature’s greatest spectacles. When the show was done he stood straight up and looked


directly at me, almost surprised that I’d not accepted his offer- ing.


I’m certain he understood as


he walked away that all I really wanted was his approval, and that I was genuinely apprecia- tive of his extraordinary show. And that for now, this was enough. A lifetime of turkey hunting has taught me many lessons.


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The importance of patience and discipline, the value of principle and the difference between hunting and killing. But the most important lesson is that the success of my turkey hunting is a direct reflection of the quality of my life; and to that end, a turkey always tells the truth.


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