When Turkeys Attack!

[Blaine]

Be sure to use enough gun.

http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2016/02/17/ ... -911-call/

[Alphawolf45]

Some years ago I was hiking/camping alone thru a Wilderness area, miles from the nearest road. Two incidents will stay in my memory forever. One is that while walking through dense weeds I stepped on a rattlesnake which was not a problem as my next step was quick and quite a ways down the trail But thuther incident I walked up on and surprised a hen turkey presumeably protecting her eggs or chicks, and that bird was really aggressive, displaying , pitching a loud fit and had me thinking surely she was about to charge.. I didn't use it but I pulled a small .357 magnum derringer I had with me.. For a while there I thought I was going to need to shoot the turkey ..There were boulders and a steep hillside to negotiate making running difficult, not to mention the 40 pound pack I was carrying on my back....Dunno if an irate turkey can actually hurt a full grown man but I didn't want to find out being that far back in the woods.

[Blaine]

Once while deer hunting at Jefferson Proving Grounds, I flushed a hen that flew right at my head. The way I acted, it might as well have been a fire breathing dragon. I had to check my pants.

[jeepnik]

I'd put Peacocks right up there with Turkeys. They are large, and know it. Get around to mating season they get pretty darned aggressive.

[J Miller]

Maybe the mail mans cologne smells like a tom turkey to them.

Joe

[Old Ironsights]

https://youtu.be/lf3mgmEdfwg

[hfcable]

Maybe the mail mans cologne smells like a tom turkey to them.

Joe

or maybe he was named Jake.... or Tom.

[2571]

Wife grew up in very rural TN. When she was 10 and in answer to her mom's call, ran up the trail from the nearby river in bare feet & stepped on a copperhead which was sunning itself in the path.

Now, my wife puts on shoes just to go on to the porch for the morning paper.