dang. turkey already?

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3 hours ago, Darth-Baiter said:

and a spur got me good. 

I did that once years ago. I was so excited I had thumped a nice Tom that I ran over to it as it was still dying to pick it up. I grabbed the legs and it was still doing it’s “death kick.” Huge mistake. One of the spurs got me in the wrist.

 

Since that incident I let them fully die before touching it.

[Darth-Baiter]

Sadness.  The last of my turkey is eaten.  
 

last bit went down as a Japanese KATSU

 

[TnRiver46]

A guy shot and killed a fellow hunter while turkey hunting in Northern California 

[Darth-Baiter]

whow..just googled it.    i am not even sure how that is possible.  it is close contact with shotguns, and a turkey is obvious.   i would love the details on how it happened.  maybe the guy shot at a "thing" moving thru the trees?????!!!

[TnRiver46]

Guy is 80 years old, probably can’t see Jack 

[Darth-Baiter]

^^TRUE.

 

but dang it if a turkey in full strut at 20 -60 yards is the most visually unmistakable thing on the planet.    but this is why i only hunt private land.  no schenanigans.  

[IYAOYAS]

Our turkeys up here are fairly tame due to all the old folks putting out food for them and so on. I literally have to get out of my truck and shoo them out of the road leaving my house. Had a big gobbler mating a hen in the road the other day and wouldn't move no matter what. Once I got out of the truck and wen to shooin him and the hen jumped up and took off. lol sorry bud, didn't mean to interrupt your romantic interlude but I gotta get through.

[TnRiver46]

29 minutes ago, Darth-Baiter said:

^^TRUE.

 

but dang it if a turkey in full strut at 20 -60 yards is the most visually unmistakable thing on the planet.    but this is why i only hunt private land.  no schenanigans.  

I was listening to a podcast with a retired game warden one time. He came up on a guy (in FLA of course) leaned up against a guardrail with his pants down bleeding . He was walking into his hunt spot and nature called. He dropped trousers and someone shot an arrow thru both his butt cheeks. Thought it was the white tail of a deer but it was tighty whities 

[12poundbass]

51 minutes ago, IYAOYAS said:

Our turkeys up here are fairly tame due to all the old folks putting out food for them and so on. I literally have to get out of my truck and shoo them out of the road leaving my house. Had a big gobbler mating a hen in the road the other day and wouldn't move no matter what. Once I got out of the truck and wen to shooin him and the hen jumped up and took off. lol sorry bud, didn't mean to interrupt your romantic interlude but I gotta get through.

I took this picture last year. I had to have one of my contractors shoo him off so I could move. If I did he’d run right back to the front of the truck. This wasn’t an isolated incident. He has his own Facebook page and has been on one of the news stations in west Michigan. 
 

 

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4 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

A guy shot and killed a fellow hunter while turkey hunting in Northern California 

 

This exact sort of thing is what gives hunters a bad rap.  The first thing they teach you in firearms safety training is to verify your target and what lies beyond.

 

Whole lotta people who use a firearm shouldn't be allowed to, and this proves it.