This is an aerial of my parent's Michigan farm, hopefully mine one day. They bought this back when I was in second grade. We used to make the two hour drive from Chicago almost every weekend growing up. Not once during those years did I think about hunting (no one hunts in my family), but I was all about fishing. There is a guy who lives at the front of the property on the West side who has been deer hunting this land for about forty years. I've chosen not to deer hunt there. Maybe I'm crazy or maybe I'm just banking that I'll own this land someday and my time will come. He has taken some real monsters there. I will get pictures of his mounts when I go out there. Since I got the private land turkey lottery for Michigan, I am going to hunt it for turkey. According to my dad, there are hundreds out there.
You can see the orchards, which are much smaller than they used to be. Most of the trees have been removed due to disease. The field with the brush piles (an old orchard) is where he see turkeys the most. I assume they would be roosting around the edge of that field?
You can see the orchards, which are much smaller than they used to be. Most of the trees have been removed due to disease. The field with the brush piles (an old orchard) is where he see turkeys the most. I assume they would be roosting around the edge of that field?