This story, “After More Than a Century, These Yankees Hunt Wild,” first appeared in the May 1974 issue of Outdoor Life. Sometime in the mid-1800’s an unknown Vermont hunter killed the last native wild turkey shot in the Green Mountain State. In the spring of 1973, John Hathaway of Pawlet bagged the first wild turkey in a gobbler hunt that was sponsored by the state Fish and Game Department as part of its turkey-restoration program. Between these…
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