During the Wild West of Turkey Hunting, My Buddy and I Stalked Birds with Rifles

During the Wild West of Turkey Hunting, My Buddy and I Stalked Birds with Rifles

This story, “Gadabout Gobblers,” appeared in the May 1950 issue of Outdoor Life. An Indian summer mellowed the high country of southwestern New Mexico. The air was still, bracing; pungent with the smell of pine. Far above, and many miles away, a thin strip of white cloaked the topmost pinnacles of Mogollon Baldy — all that remained of the season’s first snow. It was scarcely midday, yet Ralph and I took out down a great, knife like ridge and hea…