So You Want to Learn How to Hunt Turkeys
My advice….Run and run as fast as you can because turkey hunting is so addicting your life will never be the same. I was naive about how addicting it was when I first moved to the state. I joined a hunt club in Caswell County that is one of the top counties for turkeys in the state but I told the guys I wasn’t really interested in turkey hunting. Well after some encouragement I started doing some turkey hunting and it wasn’t long before I was a full blown turkey junkie. I got to admit that I’d rather turkey hunt instead of deer hunt. My First Turkey Story
Well we got less then a month till the season opens and if you want to learn to hunt these birds now is the time to start getting prepared. The best way is to find someone who already knows and ask them to teach you. I’ll give you a secret and that is in the world of turkey hunters many of us love to call a bird in for someone else and get them hooked.
Over the next few weeks I’ll be covering a variety of topics that will help and encourage all levels of turkey hunters. In the meantime if you want to get out to a good start check out the NWTF website it’s loaded with a ton of great information.
Cool story brotha. Wish you could have got one, after all the head ache. T.
Rolfe (Wayne) Bailey
Mar 07, 2007 - 02:01:27 am CST
MILTON, N.C. - Rolfe “Wayne” Bailey, 89, of 59 Broad St., Milton, died Tuesday, Feb. 27, 2007, at Piney Forest Health Care Center in Danville. Born Jan. 23, 1918, in Rock, W.Va., he was the son of the late Leonard Bailey and the late Hattie Mae Bailey Bailey. Mr. Bailey was the last surviving member of his generation. He was a graduate of Concord College in Athens, W.Va., and retired as a biologist for the states of West Virginia and North Carolina. An avid hunter and fisherman, he was widely known for his work in wildlife management, and particularly for his expertise in wild turkey management and restoration.
He was involved in research and wrote numerous articles, and was the author of “Wayne’s Turkey World (Sixty years of hunting).” Throughout his long successful career, Mr. Bailey was the recipient of many state and national conservation awards and was inducted into the Wildlife/Turkey Hunter’s Hall of Fame for Ohio, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. He was a founding member of the National Wild Turkey Federation and received the National Wild Turkey Federation Lifetime Service Award from the West Virginia Chapter and, most recently, the 2006 D.A.R. Conservation Award for Virginia.
He was married to the late Florence Manley Bailey, who died in 1998. He is survived by a son, Emmett G. Bailey, of LaGrande, Ore.; two daughters, Janice B. Nicowski, of Key West, Fla. and Cheryl B. Hardy, of Danville; three grandchildren, Michael E. McDuffie, of Charlotte, N.C., Rebecca Chappelear Harris, of Goochland, and Demian Alfred Wayne Bailey, of Seattle, Wash.; and five great-grandchildren. Mr. Bailey is also survived by his special friend, Nancy Woods, of Chapel Hill, N.C.
A celebration of Mr. Bailey’s life will be held at a later date. The family respectfully requests that in lieu of flowers, donations go to The National Wild Turkey Federation, ATTN: Mark Olis, P.O. Box 530, Edgefield, SC 29824. Barker Funeral Home is in charge of arrangements.
Source: The Caswell Messenger, 7 March 2007.
Comment by Rick Frederick — March 14, 2007 @ 2:50 am
Hi Rick Thanks for stopping by. The loss of Mr. Bailey a long time resident of Caswell County is a loss for all of us. Here is a post I did about his passing. http://skinnymoose.com/moosedroppings/?p=323
Thanks again for dropping by.
Comment by Moose — March 14, 2007 @ 7:03 am
[...] times to consume my thoughts. You see this Spring will be my first turkey hunt. Which after reading Moose’s blog this morning it makes me a little scared. All I need is one more activity to become addicted to [...]
Pingback by Outdoors with Norm » Strutting like a turkey — March 14, 2007 @ 8:06 am
It’s an addiction all right but the only one I can think with more good benefits and none of the health problems.
-Othmar Vohringer-
Comment by Othmar Vohringer — March 15, 2007 @ 12:35 am