Bow Turkeys.....
03-27-2007 | 05:24 AM
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Dominant Buck
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Bow Turkeys.....
In NC....it's illegal to take a hen during the Spring season.
My county has no Winter season.
I've never shot a turkey with a bow.....and I'm thinking I'd shoot a jake if presented with a shot. Would you shoot a jake with a bow (assuming it's legal.....and again NO WRONG ANSWER)? We have a GOOD population in my area.
My county has no Winter season.
I've never shot a turkey with a bow.....and I'm thinking I'd shoot a jake if presented with a shot. Would you shoot a jake with a bow (assuming it's legal.....and again NO WRONG ANSWER)? We have a GOOD population in my area.
03-27-2007 | 05:29 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Bow Turkeys.....
My first turkey, which I took just a couple years ago, was a jake. So, yes I would shoot a jake.
No hens? With as many turkeys as you have that doesn't seem like good management practice. I am no wildlife biologist, but even here in Ohio you can take hens in the falland we don't have near the turkeys you seem to have. Weird. Dang Southerners. [8D]
No hens? With as many turkeys as you have that doesn't seem like good management practice. I am no wildlife biologist, but even here in Ohio you can take hens in the falland we don't have near the turkeys you seem to have. Weird. Dang Southerners. [8D]
03-27-2007 | 05:35 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Bow Turkeys.....
If it was legal and it felt right, then yes I would probably shoot the jake. He would have to put on a show though for me to feel right about it. If he just walks in and stand there like jakes sometimes do, I would pass. If he came in strutting and gobbling and all the other stuff that makes your heart pound then he would likely have the air let out of him.
03-27-2007 | 05:37 AM
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RE: Bow Turkeys.....
I contacted the wildlife biologist for my area and asked why we didn't have a Winter season in my county (The next county over, does). What we're up against, here, is........ourselves. The data they use to determine if the pops are able to sustain a Winter season....is (and I'm not kidding) .....harvest reports. So....if not too many birds are taken in my county.....it HURTS us as far as having a Winter season.
Logic? It seems we're not killing enough turkeys to be able to kill more tukeys.
Logic? It seems we're not killing enough turkeys to be able to kill more tukeys.
03-27-2007 | 05:48 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Norman OK USA
RE: Bow Turkeys.....
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
I contacted the wildlife biologist for my area and asked why we didn't have a Winter season in my county (The next county over, does). What we're up against, here, is........ourselves. The data they use to determine if the pops are able to sustain a Winter season....is (and I'm not kidding) .....harvest reports. So....if not too many birds are taken in my county.....it HURTS us as far as having a Winter season.
Logic? It seems we're not killing enough turkeys to be able to kill more tukeys.
I contacted the wildlife biologist for my area and asked why we didn't have a Winter season in my county (The next county over, does). What we're up against, here, is........ourselves. The data they use to determine if the pops are able to sustain a Winter season....is (and I'm not kidding) .....harvest reports. So....if not too many birds are taken in my county.....it HURTS us as far as having a Winter season.
Logic? It seems we're not killing enough turkeys to be able to kill more tukeys.
. I'll gladly come and help increase your harvest numbers.As for shooting a jake, personally I haven't done it but if I get the chance with my recurve next weekend... you better believe I will!!!
03-27-2007 | 07:34 AM
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Fork Horn
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RE: Bow Turkeys.....
I personally think anything taken with the bow is a trophy. I have taken jakes before. When it gets to the end of the season, i don't like to go home empty handed. They are just as hard to shoot with the bow as a tom.
03-27-2007 | 02:17 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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RE: Bow Turkeys.....
Any Turkey taken with a bow is a trophy in its own right. Turkeys are so smart, and hard to hunt that it dosn't pay not to take any legalturkey that presents a shot. In my opinion, if turkeys could smell as well as they could hear and see, they'd be almost impossible to hunt. I shot my turkey with a bow last year, and was the best hunting expiriance ive had to date. Take a Jake, you won't be left unsatisfied!!...........KP