Through comparison of people's success rates on deer (antlered) vs. turkeys over their hunting career, with a bow, Jeff is trying to prove to himself that he was right in assuming that it is harder to take a turkey with a bow than an antlered buck. (Hell of a run-on sentence there. Lol)

That is right, is it not Jeff?

I don't care if I'm "right" or not. I'd like to know if my assumption was correct. I'm just curious.

This turkey thing is tough....for me.....here. I don't know how it is where everyone else hunts.

Hence my question(s).

Turkey hunting is tough, period. Anywhere you go. I know there will be those people that say "no it's not" but I've hunted them enough to know that, for a FACT, turkeys are a hard animal to hunt, with any weapon.

Sorry Jeff. I got a little carried away with the run-on sentence. I believe I understood what you were after though.

Turkeys are some slick devils they are. I have never hunted them, but I have been around them quiet regularly in the woods, and they are sly.

LT

3 Bucks 120-130"-3 years

0 Turkeys (hopefully not after this week!)-1 year

I've killed 11 turks

I've killed 6 antlered deer

I've been bowhunting them for the same amount of time.

Killing a mature deer, with a bow, is more difficult... I'm not sure how that's an argument.

Let's equate a 140" deer to a 10" bearded tom... there are A LOT more people that have killed a 10" beard than a 140 class whitetail (assuming they've hunted them the same amount of time). Turkeys are intelligent, but they're not as difficult as some people make them. I feel 80% confident that if I can find a big bird in an area that I can hunt, I'll kill him. The same doesn't go for deer... You can't watch a deer fly into the tree and go set up 50 yards from him, drink your coffee and wait for him to fly down.

All with the bow?

Me, too. I've killed two more mature bucks than I have toms.....and 5-0 on antlered bucks.

Harder for you, maybe.

Boy there's an arbitrary number....lol. How is a 140" mature buck more "mature" than a 100" mature buck?

Pressure causes... uh, nevermind.

1-0[&o]
2-0
3-2 years deer, turkey, not yet.

41 antlered deer in 41 seasons.

12 toms in 8 years.