Need a good laugh this morning? Check out this 40-second Facebook video highlighting a UPS driver as he delivers a couple packages in Branford, Connecticut.
As you’ll see, it’s a suburban setting; it looks to me like a townhome community — not exactly what you think of when picturing prime wild turkey habitat. Nonetheless, the driver must dodge two aggressive wild turkeys, specifically a couple of toms. One has a long, scraggly beard but the other has a massive rope!
This video made me shake my head this morning because it serves as another reminder that I wasn’t able to punch my South Dakota archery turkey tag last spring. Yes, I had a couple of close calls, and even released two arrows, but in the end I ate tag soup.
I have a few non-hunting friends who regularly encounter wild turkeys near their homes or places of business, and they can’t understand how it can be so difficult — for me anyway! — to kill a bird. One often jokes, “Can’t you just walk up to one and throw a blanket over it?”
Well, yes, this tactic would work on birds that walk up to your backyard bird feeder and stare in the window of your sliding door, but wild turkeys that live away from people are wild — it’s literally in their name!
You have to give this UPS driver credit: He doesn’t allow these two turkeys to delay his deliveries. And I love when he yells, “I’m 40 years old. I can’t be dealing with this!”
Good luck turkey hunting this spring. And when the turkeys are winning the battle and you’re thinking of hanging it up and heading back to the truck, remember this video. We humans can’t let the turkeys win!
P.S. Be sure to turn up the volume on this Facebook video for best viewing.
