WINGING IT FOR TURKEYS TURKEY HUNTING SEASON IS JUST TWO S H O R T M O N T H S A W A Y . Indeed, the spring tur-
key season is a special time of the year, a time when amorous tom turkeys greet the dawn with gusto, their rattling, deep-toned gobbles echoing from lofty perches. It’s a time when male turkeys do their best to woo a lady friend by fanning their tail feathers in peacock-like fashion, erecting their iridescent body feathers, plums that glow metallic green, gold and bronze, all while their heads are radiant with patriotic colors of red, white and blue. It’s also a time when otherwise sane humans arise well
before dawn and attempt to dupe a passionate tom turkey by imitating the calls of a hen with love on her mind. Turkey calls come in a variety of types. The three most popular styles are the box call, the slate call, and the diaphragm call. Perhaps the least known of the turkey calls is the wingbone call. There are wood and plastic versions of wingbone calls on the market but, as the name implies, the original wingbone calls were made using the actual wing bones of a wild turkey. To a hunter the excitement of calling a tom turkey into shotgun or bow range is seldom equaled. If the hunter called the bird using a wingbone call he or she made
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