Why use shotguns on Turkeys?
03-08-2003 | 03:41 PM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Lancaster, PA
RE: Why use shotguns on Turkeys?
Rifles are only legal in the fall turkey season here. I think that it is good to have one season that allows the use of rifles. I like that the spring season is only shotgun/archery.
03-08-2003 | 08:49 PM
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Fork Horn
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From: Cropsey IL USA
RE: Why use shotguns on Turkeys?
against the law here in ILL. besides I like to get up close and personal with that bird it' s more about the adrenaline and that thumping in your chest when that bird is that close and doesn' t even know your there that gets me goin anyway
03-09-2003 | 03:35 AM
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From: NH USA
RE: Why use shotguns on Turkeys?
Huntngirl,
I was drawn back on a tom when all of a sudden a Red Tail hawk flies in from behind me towards our mutual target. We both lost and the turkey won.
It was a four to five second scenario that is burned into my memory forever,
what a rush.
I was drawn back on a tom when all of a sudden a Red Tail hawk flies in from behind me towards our mutual target. We both lost and the turkey won.
It was a four to five second scenario that is burned into my memory forever,
what a rush.
] Shotguns only here in Ontario Canada! Brampton Mike [8D]
03-09-2003 | 10:53 AM
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Nontypical Buck
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From: Heaven IA USA
RE: Why use shotguns on Turkeys?
One could argue there are a number of reasons for shotgun only on turkeys. Safety, harvest numbers, enforcing poaching, etc. I' m not opposed necessarily to a person taking one with a rifle. Not really much different than shooting a deer with a rifle.
Personnally I wouldn' t get any satisfaction out of it. I don' t expect everyone to feel the way I do but the enjoyment of the whole turkey experience for me is calling them in close. Although I do 99.9% of my hunting with a bow, I really enjoy hunting turkeys with a shotgun as they are coming to the call and in most cases a decoy. The entire hunt is just so much richer when they are close enough to hear their big feet crunching the leaves as they approach, and feel the echo of their gobbles in your chest when they sound off at twenty yards or less. Shooting them any other way and I am just cheating myself.
Personnally I wouldn' t get any satisfaction out of it. I don' t expect everyone to feel the way I do but the enjoyment of the whole turkey experience for me is calling them in close. Although I do 99.9% of my hunting with a bow, I really enjoy hunting turkeys with a shotgun as they are coming to the call and in most cases a decoy. The entire hunt is just so much richer when they are close enough to hear their big feet crunching the leaves as they approach, and feel the echo of their gobbles in your chest when they sound off at twenty yards or less. Shooting them any other way and I am just cheating myself.
