RE: Intresting Question???????????
It’s funny you should ask this because I just went to a seminar hosted by Chris Parish and this question was asked. His response was exactly how I feel about it. I personally feel if he flies from a roosting tree into anther tree, I would consider that still a roosted bird. Now if he flies down and is working his way into my calling and flies up to a limb as he enters my range. I’d blast him in a second!
I had a gobbler come into my calling on WV hunt. When I took the shot, I pulled it real bad to the left (because of my shooting position) and missed him completely. The turkey pitch off the flat and landed on limb on tree on the next flat down. The turkey was eye level with me just sitting there watching me trying to feed another shell into my jammed gun. Again, because of my weird sitting position I didn’t ejected the 3 ½ out all the way and it jammed. I think if he knew if he sat there another 15 seconds, he was going to get thumped right off that limb and he would have been right.