OK, I' m pretty sure I know what the answer to this will be, but I wanted to know what you guys would do.

Went out Saturday for the first day of turkey, and set up where I knew they should be... when it got full light, I was surrounded with turkeys, I had set up right in the middle of their roosting area. One was 20 yards away from me and never saw me, I could have dropped him no problem. I waited, hoping one would fly down in front of me, but they had other plans I guess. Ended up chasing them around all day, and actually called one in and missed it.

I mostly hunt spring turkey, so I' m not too familiar with the way things should be done in the fall. I know you shouldn' t shoot a turkey off the roost, and I never have, even though it would have been perfectly legal. But how many of you would have taken the shot first thing in the morning (it was full light before they flew down)? I started second guessing myself later in the day, when I thought of the differences between spring and fall.

For example, spring turkeys are calling only. Fall, you try to bust up a flock and call them in, but if you walk up on them or whatever it' s fine... bag ' em. What really got me thinking was when someone else got into ' em and finally busted them up, and one flew over me and landed in a tree. If he was a little closer, I could have got him. If I was right to not shoot a roosting turkey that morning, what would be the difference in shooting the one that flew into a tree midday when spooked? Is that ethical, since it' s not ROOSTING, or not? Or is it mostly anything goes in the fall?

So, what would YOU have done??