The Season
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- $9.99
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- $9.99
Publisher Description
A spring turkey season in Alabama starts on March 20 and ends on the last day of April...it can begin with wisp of snow and end with a heat wave. For those who are no longer in the first flush of youth, and still find it is their bounded duty to hunt everyday, the seson seems to last two days longer than eternity. This endearing book covers that span of one of these continuums, recorded almost a day at a time. This particular season is neither good nor bad, successful nor un-successful, always mixed, always special unto itself, because there is no such thing as a normal season, or an average day, or a usual hunt.
Through Tom Kelly's watchful eyes, catching all the idiosyncrasies of the turkeys and turkey hunters he sees, this is one season you'll never forget.
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
Kelly (Better on a Rising Tide), an authority on the wild turkey, particularly as it is found in the American South, conducts classes and serves as a guide for hunters. Those raised on the notion that the domesticated turkey is among the most stupid of animals will soon discover, on the hunt, that its wild counterpart is an alert, easily spooked and elusive bird; Kelly usually takes only two in a seven-week season. However interesting the account of his few successes and frequent failures as a nimrod, he pads it with many barely relevant passages, including animadversions on the Endangered Species Act, mistakes made in federal land management, the history of the timber industry in the South, the unique character of the Alabama National Guard, to mention a few. Every so often Kelly adopts a tough-guy tone, as when he observes that older hunters can't afford to waste an opening day because they "damned sure ain't got enough left." This becomes annoying.
