I walked by a chufa field about 3 pm one afternoon the second week of the season and eased up to it to see if there was a turkey in it. Didn't see one and was about to go on when I saw some movement in the middle of the patch. I first thought a turkey was lying in the field, then I realized it was a coyote. He had crouched down in the 6" high grass to wait for a turkey to come along. He was too far for me to kill him, but that load of tss #9 definitely ruined his day.

The biologists tell us that coyotes seldom catch a turkey, but I have observed that they spend a lot of time trying. Maybe they are like we are and keep going even without success, but I suspect that they catch more than some think.

As General Stonewall Jackson said about the Yankees - "Kill them; kill them all."


All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.