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Taboo???
In NC....we don't have a turkey season that runs concurrently with a deer season. Therefore.....there's no chance you could be deer hunting from your treestand and have a turkey come by and legally take it. We have (in select counties) a winter "either-sex" season.....but all deer seasons are "out" when this occurs.
So.....around "here"....it's taboo to hunt turkeys from a treestand. I didn't say people here were "right"....."above" anyone ....or any of the like. I said it was taboo. People "here" have the mindset that this accomplishment (the taking of a turkey) is somehow "lessened" since the hunter was: 1) likely not hunting turkey as his primary prey and 2) was in a treestand. I don't have a stance. I think hitting a turkey with an arrow is a feat! I also see where the purists who think they should be taken from the ground could have their stance. Baiting is legal in NC.....and there are those who feel that practice is taboo. I can understand that, too. I didn't start this thread to debate ANY topics. I did so as to not hijack a thread that was already started. I'd just like to hear some of the things (regional, national, local) that people fell are "taboo" re: hunting. No explanations needed.....unless you want to. No rebuttals required, either. This COULD be fun.....and funny.....to see how different we all are. Thanks. |
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Taboo or not, if I have a nice gobbler walk under me and I have a tag in my pocket for him and it's legal, I am letting the air out of him every time. I like turkey meat too much to let them walk, and also you ever try and draw on a turkey out of a tree? Not as easy as you think.......;)
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i actually have never shot a turkey out of a tree stand, i've got plenty fromt eh ground, every time i try and draw on one from a stand i get busted. Turkeys are always looking up... many predators come fromt eh skies...i would almost say it is harder to get one from a stand.
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Here the fall turkey season runs concurrently with the archery deer season. One of my goals afew years ago was to take a gobbler with my bow. I had been seeing a bachelor group of toms roosting on this one hillside. I set up on those things (in tree stand, as I still had a deer and bear tag to fill) and got busted every single time. I moved stand locations to try to get them earlier/later, you name it...I couldn't get a shot at them.
As far as taking them from the tree, I consider taking a turkey with a bow a feat...probably harder from a tree stand as opposed to a ground blind. I finally got my first gobbler with the bow this year...I was on the ground walking to my tree stand. |
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Taboo in my area includes:
Shooting a doe with fawns. Shooting a buck thats not a wall hanger. Shooting a roosted gobbler after 7am. Its legal after 7am, and very difficult, but extremely frowned upon. All are legal, but the local know-it-alls look down on all of the above, unless its them doing it.[&:] |
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ORIGINAL: GMMAT In NC....we don't have a turkey season that runs concurrently with a deer season. Therefore.....there's no chance you could be deer hunting from your treestand and have a turkey come by and legally take it. We have (in select counties) a winter "either-sex" season.....but all deer seasons are "out" when this occurs. So.....around "here"....it's taboo to hunt turkeys from a treestand. I didn't say people here were "right"....."above" anyone ....or any of the like. I said it was taboo. People "here" have the mindset that this accomplishment (the taking of a turkey) is somehow "lessened" since the hunter was: 1) likely not hunting turkey as his primary prey and 2) was in a treestand. I don't have a stance. I think hitting a turkey with an arrow is a feat! I also see where the purists who think they should be taken from the ground could have their stance. Baiting is legal in NC.....and there are those who feel that practice is taboo. I can understand that, too. I didn't start this thread to debate ANY topics. I did so as to not hijack a thread that was already started. I'd just like to hear some of the things (regional, national, local) that people fell are "taboo" re: hunting. No explanations needed.....unless you want to. No rebuttals required, either. This COULD be fun.....and funny.....to see how different we all are. Thanks. |
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NC is all screwed up anyway. We are one of eleven states that wont allow hunting on Sunday. They put it to a vote and 48% were still in favor of the restriction. What the H is that all about.(Just my rant) Hunting turkey out of a tree stand is no different than sitting in a ground blind. It's probablly a little harder getting drawing back in the tree than in a blind.
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Taking a Turkey out of a tree stand is very difficult. I have done it 4 times but it's very hard to do. They can see you flinch from a long ways away.
It's easier to take them from the ground then it is a tree. MC |
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I can guarantee it would be harder from a tree than from a ground blind.... These double bull blinds are changing the way turkey hunting is done.... I hate to see it happen.... Just seems under handed to me....
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Last year I was hunting from the ground in Pa..Deer and turkey (either sex)are in at the same time in the fall season. I had a Turkey, just before dark roost in a tree above me. I had a clear shot and could have easily made the shot. Now even though it's illeagal to shoot a roosted bird..No one would ever know right?? Wrong..I would have known ..and walked away. <Sigh>
I could also tell a tale of the time I was in Texas and shot 3 hens (on purpose) with 1 shot from a shot-gun. It was on an outfitted hunt and the rancher wanted young hens specifically for camp food.I know..I wouldn't believe you either if you told me this..but I was swear it's the truth! I literally had to hold out for only 3 hens in the same sight picture..I pulled up several times only to have jakes or Gobblers or too many hens in the way.. |
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farm....you likely have a point (re: baiting deer and not turkeys).
I never mentioned any differences re: blind/no blind when hunting from the ground. I would assume that ANYTIME you can be concealed from your prey it would stand to reason it would be easier to get a bow drawn. That point is conceded. I have turkeys come by my stand....I woud venture a guess....about 65-70% of the time when I deer hunt. I can only speak for MY area I hunt....but they don't seem too interested in "up" in my woods. I can't speak for any other areas. I'm not diminishing the accomplishmnets of anyone who's taken one from a treestand. I'm not. |
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Well, I have killed several turkeys in my hunting career. They all have been from the ground (shotgun and rifle) except for this old girl. I got her mid November last year from about 20' up with my bow. She came in with about 10 other hens mixed with a couple jakes. Va's turkey season runs with the deer season up to a certain point.:)
I feel like it was a piece of cake. I know every situation is different but I feel this is alot easier being done from a tree instead of the ground, especially since I don't own/hunt from a groundblind. Just because a turkey(s) responds to your calls does not mean it will come the way you want it to. There is luck involved just as it is with anything else.  |
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I consider it taboo to shoot anything you don't intend to eat, unless it intends to eat you.
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I consider it taboo to shoot anything you don't intend to eat, unless it intends to eat you. I've been fortunate enough to take several turkeys from my treestand, and will do so at every opportunity. Those opportunities can be slim, though as I believe they're especially tough to kill from above. I think turkeys are just as wary about skyborn threats as they are in any other direction. I've seen flocks turn directions after seeing movement from several hundred yards away. All I've got to say is I would love to have some of those turkeys around MO and IL that you've got there in NC... We'd be eating fried turkey all the time!! :D |
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Greg:
Sad part is we don't even have a Winter OR "either sex" season in my county. When I called the NCWRC to speak t the biologist about it......he told me the "open" counties (for Winter seasons) were determined based on the harvest reports, SOLELY. It doesn't matter, to them, how many birds I have around me. They base whether or not to open my county for the Winter "either-sex" season SOLELY on the number of birds harvested and reported in my county. The fact that NOT MANY birds are being taken from our county HURTS us (if you're wanting them to open it to the Winter season). It's ludicrous. We have LOTS of birds......FEW hunters. |
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That's too bad, Jeff... not only are they great eating, they make excellent decoration for your home office... ;)
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ORIGINAL: Greg / MO That's too bad, Jeff... not only are they great eating, they make excellent decoration for your home office... ;)
Taboo in MI is still shooting a doe in some area's, Sad I know!! |
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Shooting a deer below the road is Taboo in Wyoming.
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I can't see any good reason why itwould be taboo,especially the ones you mentioned. Sounds ridiculous to me
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You can't hunt on Sunday because you're in the south. You can't hunt a WMA in SC on Sunday. You can't buy alcohol at a lot of places, blue laws in SC keep businesses from opening, and that includes malls, grocery stores..you name it. You can't buy lottery tickets on a voting day...it goes on and on.
Southern states seem to believe that by restricting what you can do on certain days, you'll do what's considered "right." Namely, if you can't hunt or shop or go to a bar you'll go to Church. If you can't play the lottery, you'll vote, etc. etc. etc.May seem old and outdated to some of the northerners, but that's the thought process down here. |
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I actually killed my biggest gobbler during the fall either sex turkey season here in Ohio while deer hunting. I got down and went to check him in and then came back to get my stand. A buck had come and rubbed a pretty good sized tree about 6-7 yards from my stand. I guess I should have stayed up and maybe I could have gotten a double. That'll learn me.
Taboo in south centralOhio is not spotlighting and poaching. I quit hunting there for that reason. |
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Taboo in my area includes: Shooting a doe with fawns. Shooting a buck thats not a wall hanger. Shooting a roosted gobbler after 7am. Its legal after 7am, and very difficult, but extremely frowned upon. All are legal, but the local know-it-alls look down on all of the above, unless its them doing it.[&:] oh if you shoot a lone doe during the rut it could be a button so don't do it!!!! Illinois rocks!! |
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LOL Germ... Close! It's Power Point for Dummies! [8D]
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I don't evenhesitate about shooting a bird from my treestand. It's definitely looked upon differently here in OK.
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