Return of the Wild Turkey (1970)

[357MAGNOLE]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TOJQnlDidzs

Anyone seen this video? Its old school for sure.

[Satellitehunter]

Great video. I love those old  outdoor documentaries especially on turkey's 


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[OldSchool]

I hadn't seen that, thank you.

I can remember our DEC stocking birds here in the late 70's and the posters on fence posts along a backroad that read $500.00 reward for info leading to the arrest of anybody messing with them. I wish I had one of those signs.

Bob

[357MAGNOLE]

I know where one is. It's old and in a old game check shack

[M Sharpe]

I hadn't seen that, thank you.

I can remember our DEC stocking birds here in the late 70's and the posters on fence posts along a backroad that read $500.00 reward for info leading to the arrest of anybody messing with them. I wish I had one of those signs.

Bob

Hey Bob, you mean the NWTF don't you???

[OldSchool]

I hadn't seen that, thank you.

I can remember our DEC stocking birds here in the late 70's and the posters on fence posts along a backroad that read $500.00 reward for info leading to the arrest of anybody messing with them. I wish I had one of those signs.

Bob

Hey Bob, you mean the NWTF don't you???

Good catch, thank you.

Bob

[MK M GOBL]

Thanks for sharing, fun to watch those old videos!

MK M GOBL

[MK M GOBL]

I hadn't seen that, thank you.

I can remember our DEC stocking birds here in the late 70's and the posters on fence posts along a backroad that read $500.00 reward for info leading to the arrest of anybody messing with them. I wish I had one of those signs.

Bob

My Great Uncle was part of a program here in the state of Wisconsin through the WDNR and had raised "Wild" turkeys for them to release. Ultimately this program failed as the birds were half wild/half domestic which later on lead to the trap and transplant program trade with the state of Missouri. I have my great uncles "WI Licensed" turkey program sign! 

MK M GOBL

[mgm1955]

Great piece of history. Thanks for sharing.

[OldSchool]

I hadn't seen that, thank you.

I can remember our DEC stocking birds here in the late 70's and the posters on fence posts along a backroad that read $500.00 reward for info leading to the arrest of anybody messing with them. I wish I had one of those signs.

Bob

My Great Uncle was part of a program here in the state of Wisconsin through the WDNR and had raised "Wild" turkeys for them to release. Ultimately this program failed as the birds were half wild/half domestic which later on lead to the trap and transplant program trade with the state of Missouri. I have my great uncles "WI Licensed" turkey program sign! 

MK M GOBL

Cool!

Bob

[M Sharpe]

Good video!!

[Meadow Valley Man]

This video was a mainstay of the Wisconsin DNR Turkey Hunter Education Clinics beginning in 1983. I was an instructor for these clinics from 1989 through 2001, and I never got tired of watching it.

[owlhoot]

good one, thanks

[1tiogabowhunter]

Very neat liked seeing the old footage and the camera work.  Also neat to reflect on the trapping methods I recall them being used when I first started hunting them.  Thanks for sharing

[silvestris]

I remember signs on the highway west of Clarendon, Arkansas along the White River bottoms on Hwy. 79 offering rewards.  That was long before the NWTF.  And I thought the NWTF created the Wild Turkey.  Learn something new everyday.

That was a great video.  Hat's off to the Missouri Department, although I imagine that most, if not all, who were involved in the production are gone.  Ecology, habitat, limiting factors, hunting, poaching, life cycle, this video covered it all and I am sure it was entertaining and educational at a time when the Wild Turkey really needed a boost.  Come to think of it, the Wild Turkey needs a boost now in many areas with past abundance.