Dean Bortz: Sometimes the turkeys have to win, no?

Oh my aching … let’s go with my back here. But another part of me got kicked right and proper – and more than once – by Zone 7, Zone 1, and Zone 4 turkeys in Wisconsin this spring when hunting under my own tags.
It was downright embarrassing. Very humbling. And I’m – what – in at least my 40th year of turkey hunting? Gee whiz. As my old buddy would have said, “Dirty Irene.” And he would always draw out the dirty, as in Diirrr-ty Irene. He gave it a melody. I never did ask him the origin of that saying, but that’s about as close as he got to cussing.

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