I spied those chickens at a distance and started a stalk.

When I poped over the ridge there they were!

Vultures...

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Of the Troops & For the Troops

best look at the fines involved. Seems there protected due to the fact that back in the pioneer days they cleaned up carcuses that caused desiese. Bigger fines for shooting one of them then shooting a bald eagle!!

Those things sure aren't "endangered" around here. Hundreds of them roost on the TVA powerline towers all over Middle Tennessee. You couldn't hardly shoot up in the air without hitting one.

still federaly protected though.

taste like road kill................

More like Spotted Owl crossed with the Ivory Billed woodpecker- or is that peckerwood?

Farmers around here dont know about any federal regs. The ones with the red beaks or heads like to pluck the eyes out of newborn calves making these birds prime 17 HMR targets.

Bob

during birthing for sheep. That thing wouldn't kill a groundhog right away, but it was rough on buzzards, crows and especially blue jays. Just a blue cloud lingering in the wind was all that was left.

My grandmother, way back when she was a kid on a South Jersey farm and sometimes hunted for the family's pot, shot what she thought was a turkey, brought it home and cooked it. She was quite proud.

Turned out to be a turkey vulture -- and they smell a whole lot different than a real turkey! And are not edible.

The house needed to be aired out and she couldn't sit down for a couple of days afterward. Wasting cartridges was frowned upon.

After that episode, she said she preferred to go fishing.

Scribe