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Novice turkey hunters love to run and gun. They act as if they were Vikings landing in France. Aside from a few isolated inncidents with stupid jakes or inexperienced 2 year old birds, it does little more than educate birds and make them leery of coming to calls when there is no bird there.
It does work in certain situations. On TV you see it all the time... but when was the last time you saw a hunter on TV bump a bird?
you stick with what you think, but id delete that novice part, my dads killed over 50 turkeys in 25 years
ALL running and gunning, he could get anyone a tom in 2 mornings guarenteed, if they could keep up with him. hes also killed a ton of birds over 2
I'll write whatever I want thanks. If you were educated enough to read properly, in no way shape or form did I insinuate that all turkey hunters who run and gun are "novice".
The simple fact is that a lot of neophyte turkey hunters emulate what they see on TV, which is almost exclusively run and gun style hunting. It has its place just like anything else does.
How many have you killed running and gunning? Probably not a third as many as you have bumped.