I have placed Hunting the Wild Turkey between an extra front and back cover for protection, added a foreword and a brief note on the first page of the reprinted copy to identify it as a reprint and not a counterfeit of Turpin's book. Otherwise, the book is reprinted by photographic technology exactly as it originally appeared, metal staples and all. There are no deletions and no additions.

The original book does not show a date of publication. There was evidence at the time of printing that it was published about 1940 but I have since learned from one of Tom Turpin's living relatives that the book was advertised in a magazine issued in 1927. It had to be written before that date which means that Hunting the Wild Turkey is the second wild turkey book ever written.

Tom Turpin was known in his day as a skilled call maker and caller, hunter, craftsman-innovator, and sometime magazine writer. Today's turkey hunters know him mainly for the wingbone yelper that carries his name--a trumpet type employing the modified radius bone of the hen turkey or sometimes a mouth piece fabricated from other material. Besides the "Turpin Turkey Yelper" he also made turkey box calls, duck calls, and crow calls. Turpin was born in 1872. His last hunting trip was for ducks in 1950. He died in 1957 at age 85.