This quote from Tom Kelly is my turkey hunting anthem.
He (the turkey hunter) will experience moments of tragedy of such depth and feeling as to preclude them form having been written by anyone but Euripides, and he will exalt in periods of piercing rapture previously understood only by willing Christian martyrs being eaten by willing lions. He will operate primarily in a climate not of desire but of compulsion. This is painfully evident in my own case. I do not hunt turkeys because I want to; I hunt them because I have to. I would really rather not do it, but I am helpless in the grip of my compulsion.
Tom Kelly from his book Tenth Legion
