I shot a couple jakes when I was new to turkey hunting. Now that the worst of the excitement of just shooting a bird is out of my system, I pass on jakes. If it's the last day and a jake walks up on me, I'd probably shoot just to put the meat in the freezer. Otherwise, I'll save the tags for something worth shooting. Passing on a jake this year just means he'll be a shooter next year.
It's just a matter of preference. They all taste the same. Guess I'm just to the point where killing jakes just isn't as fun. They come in as gangs and it'd be easy to pop one off just because they never seem as spooked. It just doesn't seem to take as much skill to call them in.
Last edited by xOEDragonx; 04-11-2014 at 12:16 PM.