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On opening day, LI turkeys prove hard to hunt down
Quick ReadSaturday was the first day of a five-day turkey hunting season - the first such season on Long Island in more than a century.
Photo credit: Freelance/Ed Betz | Hunters Jimmy Olson, right, Ruth Olson center and Troy Rodriguez, left, get ready in the woods before hunting for a wild turkey. (November 9, 2009)
Turkey Season Begins
Long Islanders are talking turkey
Photos: Wild Turkeys
Turkeys in the wild -- and on the plate
James Sabino of Islip held up his arm.
"Turkeys are small this year," he said, nodding to the bird grasped in his hand.
It was a hen pheasant, not a turkey, and not what he had in mind when he and his 16-year-old son Dan set out to go wild turkey hunting more than six hours earlier.
At 5:45 a.m. Saturday, they had stamped their feet along with the dozens of other hunters dressed...
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