RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

There is nothing un-ethical about what you did. You made every effort to obtain your bird as quickly as possible.Its actually quite a funny story. By the way, they do make these sleeves that go over the buttstock of your shotgun the holds some EXTRA shells. Thought you might be interested in something like that!!!:D

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

My vest holds 5 shells... I'm sure yours does too;)

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Did you atleast give his seeing eye dog a treat for keeping him there so long?

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Mr. Longbeard,

I have several vest and hate all of them. I just wear my coat with shells and calls in my pockets. I, because of arthiritus, can't sit on the ground, hurts to much, so I use a modified turkey stool. I added pack straps to it and tie my home made blind to it.

Actually, I travel and hunt as lite as possible, carry 3 calls, a slate, mouth call, and a home made scratch box. I always carried only 3 shells, what the gun held legally. However, I bought and had a single shot shotgun modified last year just for turkey hunting, so will be carrying a few more shells in my pockets from now on. When I started turkey hunting all I had was a single shot 20 gauge, it had a hammer on it, I hate hammer guns, but wanted to go back to a single shot, found one with a cross bolt safety and that's what I now use.

I probably carry less into the woods turkey hunting than the average turkey hunter, same with all my hunting. Now my fishing is a different subject, probably have 25 rods and 20 poles in my crappie boat.

As stated previously, the story is very true and humorus, just wanted to have some fun on the site. I, as most hunters could tell many tales of blunder I've made in my years of hunting and fishing.

Merry Christmas to All,
dog1

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Based on the thread title...hell yeah!! Why not if he cant see me, why not eat him! ;)

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Why not try and cut his throught? Its the next logical step I guess....[:-]

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Well,

Thats a great story! Yea, you should always have 'extra' shells cause you never know...........How many times have I gone into the woods with just my three for the gun? PLENTY! Sometimes I just forget. So you shot the three that you had and that was it! if you would have had an extra 5 in your pocket, what if you would have missed/wounded anohter five times, then some yahoo on here would say you should carry 10 shells with you. Whatever. Great Great story. I just love how some folks come on for the attack as soon as someone shares a blunder or truth or a good story.

So, my question back is - now how many extra shells do you travel with in the woods? Myself I put three in the gun and have three in my pocket and I figure if I can't git-er-done with 6 then I'm going to be coming out of the woods for a while to 'cool down'.

I got an even better question for everyone...............

OK, anyone out there ever miss a turkey? C'mon, now raise your hand if you have......................

I'll go first, yep, I've missed. Gun was patterned, everythingwas just checked anddouble checked, I just, well, missed!

If there is anyone out there that hasn't missed yet, quit now while you are ahead............stay at this game long enough and it will happen.............its never a good thing, but its also something that keeps us honest and keeps us into tuning that gear as best as possible.

Merry Christmas to all!

Can't wait till spring.........mid-March right?

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

hootnscoot,

You betcha I've missed. Thought it would never happen to me but it did. Two years ago I called in a bird around 12 noon. He was a long distance from me and I thought, "This bird will never come this far", he did, never slowed coming to me. I was talking to myself, just keep coming old boy and your in the freezer. He came within 20 yards and I was so confident he was mine, I actually shot over him, couldn't believe it. I was so dumb founded I didn't even pump another shell into the chamber, he ran off.

dog1

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Yep I've missed 4 times in almost 30 years of huntin turks.3 were because I miss judged distance"my own stupidity that I'm certainly not proud of"and once was because the bird just happen to duck his head back behind a ridge just as I shot"he was lucky"!!!The down side of a miss that nobody wants to talk about is theres a definate chance you put shot into the bird :(!Thats the ugly of a so-called miss.One of the birds I missed by stretching my barrel to far,we harvested 4 days later and we found 3 of my pellets inside him.All 3 had begun to seriously fester!!Yes a "miss" will happen but we ethically have an obligation to do what we can in respect to the birdin maximizing our turkey patterns and shooting at ethical ranges.Especially with the evolution of loads firearms and todays good info!No offense at all dog1 stuff happens in the turkey woods,but a clean kill would of been better than a funny story;).....Bob...

RE: Another Ethics Question! Would you shoot a blind turkey?
 

Well.....I am the guy whom ths story was told to in person and I have hunted with the dog! Is he ehtical?

Should not even need to ask! I can say dog1 is my friend and I would hunt with him anywhere-anytime. He is like me and we NEVER leave our ethics in the truck!

But....ya know I am starting to think the only reason he invited me to hunt down south with him and I did go.... was to feed all those 10 pound mosquitoes so they would not bite him!



OKAY....NOW TO ANSWER OTHER ??
YES I have missed 3 times in the course of 20 yrs......one I know I wounded the bird and paid a 1 yr long penance....I did with out something I dearly loved!

2. I carry - 4 for the gun and 3 extra........

But I know dog1------he musta had skeeters pesterin' the bejeebies outa him...

JW