Dogs that hunt wild turkey and other books

	From the traditional wing-bone turkey call used for generations to the newest high-tech calls, Hickoff gives tips and tactics for everyone who hunts the turkey woods. This book offers instructions on how to make your own calls and how to call in wild turkeys will enhance every hunter's ability to identify and make situational and seasonal vocalizations. It covers competition calling, caring for calls, and finding call makers.		For the sportsman who thrills at the booming gobble of a spring tom during mating season and wants to extend that exhilarating feeling, Steve Hickoff’s Fall and Winter Turkey Hunter’s Handbook offers the perfect remedy. Hickoff examines fall turkey behavior and vocalizations and provides details on locating, scouting, and calling fall gobblers, with tips for mapping flock patterns and identifying changing flock composition. Also discussed is the little-known strategy of hunting turkeys with dogs, using them to find and flush flocks.
	A Southern Sportsman The Hunting Memoirs of Henry Edwards Davis (1879–1966) Edited by Ben McC. Moïse Foreword by Jim Casada Tales of pursuing turkeys, deer, ducks, and partridges through the fields, forests, and swamps of South Carolina		Fur or Feather, Days with dog and gun by Lawrence B. (Lon) Smith First Edition 1946 A turkey dog... is of no particular breed, nor yet of any particular strain, he just happens. From a common pup… he suddenly becomes a prominent citizen of this particular community, and in some cases, for miles around... For this reason most good turkey dogs are insignificant as far as physical proportions go, but most of them are colossal in sagacity and turkey lore. See below for complete description.
	Brian Lovett examines modern turkey hunting and offers concise, in-depth explanation of how to scout for, set up for and kill wary longbeards. He goes on to explain how turkeys react to human pressure and covers the essential skills of calling. Research strategies for hunting different times of day, aggressive versus subtle approaches and troubleshooting tough birds. Paper-Back Book. 195 pages.		A cult classic on turkey hunting. Many people who hunt turkeys do so with an attention to detail; a regard for strategy, tactics, and operations; and a disregard for personal comfort and convenience. As with all cultists, it never occurs to them that they may be unconscious to the rest of the world, blind and deaf to logic and reason. So, they continue to walk along their different road, in step to the music of a different drum.

	Number one book recommended by Hilary Nickerson to train your turkey dog pup: Gun Dog: Revolutionary Rapid Training Method	Wild Turkey Dogs: Tips on Choosing, Training and Hunting with 'Training a Turkey Dog' by Parker Whedon. Including secrets of the old days, from 44 turkey dog hunters. 3rd edition.
>	Of English Dogs - earliest known work on dog breeds (Vintage Dog Books Breed History Series). Originally written and published in 1576, this is a reprint of the earliest known work on dog breeds. Translated from the original Latin, it lists all the dog breeds of the time and charts their type and development. As the only known work from the period it is of great significance. The forebears of all modern breeds can clearly be seen in the names and types of dogs described, as can many breeds that are now lost forever.	Only a Dog: The True Story of a Dog's Devotion to His Master in World War One (Paperback). This is a touching true story from the First World War, retold through the dog’s eyes. When the soldier dies, Little Army is inconsolable and remains by his master’s grave, refusing to leave. There he stays, comforted only by the smell of his master’s trench coat which is given him to lie on and keep warm. This is Army, the faithful Irish Terrier’s story. Soldier and Dog now lie side by side at Armentieres in Flanders.
	Hunting in the Old South: Original Narratives of the Hunters. "But there is another kind of sport better suited to the winter months before the gobblers would answer the call; and this is, hunting them with a properly trained turkey dog. A well-trained dog will never range very far from his master till he finds the warm scent of a single turkey or a flock. Then he will start upon the trail without giving tongue until he finds the game. He will then run on, and by continual yelping, compel it to ascend…"	The Encyclopedia of North American Sporting Dogs: Written by Sportsmen for Sportsmen edited by Steve Smith 2002 - 256 pages They found this dog in the American water spaniel. ... it's doubtful that the American was regularly used as a turkey dog, the way the first Boykins were. ...
	Dog's Best Friend: Annals of the Dog-Human Relationship by Mark Derr "Any dog who stalks, freezes, and has a nose can be trained to point turkey... Scott and Fuller observed that any dog can be trained to be a setter provided it... and another who has an inbred line of “turkey dogs. ..."	The Field And Stream Game Bag "When a good turkey dog winds a gang of turkeys, he follows the trail with surprising speed until he breaks into their midst, barking furiously. ..."
	Hunting in North America: Big Game, Small Game, Upland Birds, Waterfowl, Wild Turkey "Turkey Hunting Dogs - One of the hunter's most valuable assets is a dog... And a dog with flushing, pointing or retrieving skills will greatly improve ..."	Virginia Hunting Guide by Bob Gooch "The turkey dog is the key to fall hunting in Virginia. The typical turkey dog is an English pointer or setter in which the pointing instinct has been ..."
	Turkey Hunting Tactics: Expert Advice for Locating, Calling, and Decoying Wild Turkeys by Gary Clancy "Real aficionados, however, use specially trained turkey dogs. A turkey dog is expected to hunt for the scent trail of a flock, follow that scent, ..."	Meditations on Hunting is the most quoted book in sporting literature. It is the finest work on the essence and ethics of hunting. Today when both hunting and fishing are often condemned, Meditations takes on an even greater significance. Ortega points out that life is a dynamic interchange between man and his surroundings.
	Illumination in the Flatwoods: A Season with the Wild Turkey by Joe Hutto Caution: Once you read this, you will never think of wild turkeys in the same way you used to, guaranteed. Nature: My Life as a Turkey [Blu-ray]	Turkey Calls and Calling: Guide to Improving Your Turkey-Calling Skills by Steve Hickoff This book is known to make wild turkeys think you're a turkey, and cause hunters to think they're wild turkeys.

FUR OR FEATHER, Days with Dog and Gun‎ by Lawrence B. (Lon) Smith First Edition 1946
A turkey dog... is of no particular breed, nor yet of any particular strain, he just happens. From a common pup… he suddenly becomes a prominent citizen of this particular community, and in some cases, for miles around. His job is simple, yet it is specific, and it takes technique. In short, he is a “specialist”/ Once conscious of the presence of turkeys, said turkey dog sets out on their trail… not too fast, not too slow. To rush through the woods with raucous bellowing would serve to defeat his own ends…
For this reason most good turkey dogs are insignificant as far as physical proportions go, but most of them are colossal in sagacity and turkey lore. Fur Or Feather: Days With Dog And Gun reprinted 2006

"My name is Diomed and I was born April 22, 1883, in Richmond, Virginia. I am a setter dog. My earliest recollection of anything is... There was the doctor, with his ever-sharp knife, whittling away upon his latest turkey-call, or carving his latest powder-horn... and, old as he is, I don't intend that any dog here shall poke his nose after turkeys without old Di along... Our plan, therefore, was to start shortly before day; try to find them on their roost; and, failing in that, to let the dogs strike their scent where they alighted from roosting, follow it up; flush, chase, and scatter them; and then build blinds and call them up... thus, I was to range out for their scent, and, finding them, bark, rush into their midst, drive them in as many directions as possible, and then hurry back to master, wait until he built his blind, creep into it with him, and lie as still as a mouse until he fired. But it was part of his business to handle and work the yelper, and unless that is done scientifically the other labor is all in vain; for when a turkey discovers the imposture he never returns. Young turkeys are the silliest things in the world; but an old mother is the cleverest of birds. If the hunter can kill her, he has nothing to do but wait and call, and the young ones will come in, one after another, to the most apparent false calls. But unless... The greater part of my turkey hunting was done with Dr. Armistead Taylor, with whom I often spent weeks or months. He handled his turkey-call with more skill than any of our circle.
The Life, Travels and Observations of a Dog - Diomed; The Life, Travels, and Observations of a Dog

From The Turkey: AN AMERICAN STORY (The Food Series):
In Pre-Columbian Mexico, the Aztecs reportedly fed 500 turkeys a day to carnivores in the Emperors' zoo.
They also sold a meal of dog meat layered with turkey on top and covered with a sauce in their markets.
Hyaluronic acid is extracted from cockscombs (and umbilical cords) and are used for beauty cremes, in therapeutical treatments to relieve pain from osteoarthritis of the knee, and a number of eye surgeries.
Many people feel that turkey flesh, particularly breast meat of the modern American strains of Broad-breasted Whites are bland and tasteless when compared with the taste of wild turkeys... When muscles (such as the legs and thighs of a turkey) are exercised, their oxidative fibers store lipids (fats), their metabolic fuel, which permits extended use of those muscles. This turns the meat darker and juicier than white meat, which is composed of little-used muscle. Hence, the enormous breast of a turkey contains little fat. More interesting history from the book.