wow.... I might have just kept that one to myself

No way I would pay to hunt them, it's a bonus. Calling a big tom in is something every hunter should experience though!

and by the way turkeys do not interest me at all in the fall..would not shoot one in the fall unless it was a kid wanting to shoot one........but come april I'm crazy for them

The friend that introduced me to hunting in Texas actually had the lease for the turkey hunts and then started deer hunting. In Florida and South Georgia most leases have a completely different lease for the turkey hunters and the deer hunters. The easterns are in my area and the lease rates are still pretty high. Go to south Florida and they double or triple the rate for the osceolas. I think some of the allure with the easterns and osceolas is that they are much tougher to hunt. I know the turkeys on the Texas lease were dumber than a sack of hammers. I remember watching one that came up to the feeder fence with the rest of the flock but was too dumb to figure out how to get over the hog fence. After thirty minutes or so he finally got over. As the sun started to set, the rest of the turkeys flew off to roost on a telephone pole. The same dumb turkey ran around inside the pen and kept clucking because he could not figure out how to get out. Right at dark, he finally decided to flap his wings and go to roost. The turkeys in Georgia and Florida seem to be much tougher to hunt.