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Old 01-06-2005, 01:56 PM
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Default Spot and Stalk Turkeys? Is it ethical?

Ever since I started turkey hunting past in grade school, I always killed a majority of my birds by spotting them and then stalking them. Most of the turkeys on my WEBPAGE are from this method. The turkeys around here seem to be call-shy majority of the time, regardless of how good a caller you are. But I've also been put down by other hunters saying stalking turkeys is unsafe and un-ethical because somebody else could always be tresspassing on the land you're hunting, which could put you in the range of a gun. I've only do it on private land, where I only have access to it, and to me is just as exciting and probably even more of a challenge(depends of situation) than calling birds in. What's you're take on it? Why do people view spot and stalk so much different than hunting deer, when rifles even have a longer range?
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