The rolling hills of N.C.’s piedmont offer some tactical advantages to wild turkeys, but also to those who hunt them.
Forty-five minutes before sunrise last April, 54-year-old Fred Cox of Reidsville paused in the ebony darkness of a Tar Heel morning.
We were on a Rockingham County hilltop where two heavily wooded finger ridges sloped toward two pastures — typical of the mixed habitat that characterizes much of the piedmont.
Cox, a physical education teacher at Rockingham County High School, as well as being the owner of Grand Slam Turkey Calls, said this was the first of two listening posts where we’d stop at the 200-acre parcel.
Using his vocal cords, Cox simulated the sounds of a barred owl, then waited several minutes before again uttering the raucous notes. With no response forthcoming from his raptor rhapsody, the call-maker motioned me to follow him.
We quickly walked to the second listening post. This one was entirely different in makeup.
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