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Old 05-11-2003 | 08:09 PM
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Bobgobble2
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Default RE: Stalking turkeys---Unethical??

Sour1,i' ve seen these ethical posts get ridiculously ugly before including this excact subject you talk about here!Bottomline is when most hunters take to the woods there gonna do what they are best at and what the law allows!For many relying on there ability to manuever,stalk,and position themselves are what they are good at and thats what they have confidence in.Others rely on there calling ability,equipment they have,scouting they' ve done,and overall past experience!We all have our own style of turkey hunting developed from our past experiences afield!Because of that we do what works for us!Does this mean there are no ethics that the turkey hunter should follow?Absolutely not!Obviously breaking the law,trespassing ,poaching,and in many states shooting a bird off the roost are no brainers!But shooting birds off a feeder,out of a truck,off a quad,and forgive me for not mentioning more but I' m not going to start an argument here!!Where' s the hunt in this???As far as stalking is concerned,we all have to position ourselves in the turkey woods to work a bird!For myself a combination of calling and positioning is what works for me.Fooling a bird in close is the high of the sport and to that end is what I work for in the turkey woods and part of that is manuevering to give yourself an opportunity to do so!To take the call out of turkey hunting would to me,be far less fun, and make hunting spring gobblers even tougher than what it is now especially on public ground!I manuever to get in position to call to a bird not with the intention to sneak up on him and kill him!Just my style that has proven effective enough for me!Sure many guys have snuck up on a bird or two and got the drop on them but to make a habit out stalking as your primary means to to turkey hunting will for the most part result in spooked birds,which makes for running and flying shots,which results in wounded birds!!Besides this sooner or later you will run into somebody else doing the same thing which no question results in a dangerous situation.I know guys that absolutely will not hunt public ground because of this!!I' ve been stalked myself on private ground before and when the 2 fellas popped out of the brush one of them carrying a rifle pointed in my direction,I turned white being scared to death because I had no idea they were there!!Ethical or not I' ll leave that up to the individual himself to decide,but for me I' ll stick to what works!!Bob
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