Photo: Fighting Toms

[popeshawnpaul]

Nice bokeh.  Good stuff again Tom.

Turkey always run when I try and shoot them with my camera...   

[Tom Reichner]

Nice bokeh.  Good stuff again Tom.

Turkey always run when I try and shoot them with my camera...   

Thanks, Shawn

I have a couple locations on private property with lots of turkeys.  At both places the landowners have given me permission to photograph.  At neither place is there a guarantee that the birds will let you get close - sometimes they do and other times they're very skittish.   But going multiple times usually pays off, eventually.  There's alot to be said for persistence with these toms. 

If you have any interest in these opportunities, let me know.  I'd be glad to take you along and show you these turkey-rich areas.

-Tom

[jackelope]

call them in....rather than trying to stalk on them...
if you don't know how i'm sure someone would step up. maybe from a ground blind?

[boneaddict]

Public land turks are pretty hard to get on film really.  Once they hear the camera, or lens, they are on high speed alert.  They need to be pretty fired up on a hen and usually she is leaving with him right behind her. 

[rosscrazyelk]

That is a great pic. I hope you do not mind but I downloaded it and it is my screen saver.

[SpokaneSlayer]