Just for fun
04-05-2012, 03:26 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: NewLowell ,Ontario ,Canada
Posts: 2,765
Your starting to see the fun in taking action pictures while you enjoy the outdoors. Thats great and fun to follow such pictures as we all tend to hunt a little different style.
I'll have my cam when I start with turkeys, took lots of photo while coyote hunting this winter too...
I'll have my cam when I start with turkeys, took lots of photo while coyote hunting this winter too...
04-05-2012, 03:55 AM
#6
Typical Buck
Join Date: Mar 2009
Location: Hubbard Lake, Michigan
Posts: 914
Seen my first ever on the side of the road last yr and seen one with a beard almost as long as that one just the other day. Really getting into the camera thing also, took a lot last yr and now i always take it when scouting. Had it right beside me when i seen the bearded hen, just didn't think of it in time.
I do have a question tho, Why do people shoot bearded hens? Simply because its legal and they can? Just something unique and different? Just curious cause the turkey numbers are way down in my area and i wouldn't even consider shooting a hen for any reason. Or is it that a bearded hen is unable to reproduce? obviously they got some male hormone thing or something going on, thats why the beard? Anybody know?
Not trying to knock anyone who would shoot one, those who rarely get a chance at any turkey or those in an area with a real healthy population of birds i could see doing it.
Just curious.
I do have a question tho, Why do people shoot bearded hens? Simply because its legal and they can? Just something unique and different? Just curious cause the turkey numbers are way down in my area and i wouldn't even consider shooting a hen for any reason. Or is it that a bearded hen is unable to reproduce? obviously they got some male hormone thing or something going on, thats why the beard? Anybody know?
Not trying to knock anyone who would shoot one, those who rarely get a chance at any turkey or those in an area with a real healthy population of birds i could see doing it.
Just curious.
04-05-2012, 05:08 AM
#8
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Thread Starter
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Wisconsin
Posts: 7,436
It has been reported = see beareded hens better cahcne for Multiple bearded toms....
And to answer why someone would shoot one? Well according to some State DNR regs they are legal as it states One Bearded Turkey. Clearly the beard is seen. Some hunters don't know the difference between a hen or tom and just see the beard.
For me, the one I shot - it was my 20th yr hunting with the guy I started with sitting right next to me and this hen was a great challenge. She sports my wall now forever.
So each to their own and like I posted I won't take another. That picuture was the 5th I have seen while hunting and then the very next day I saw my 6th....
JW
And to answer why someone would shoot one? Well according to some State DNR regs they are legal as it states One Bearded Turkey. Clearly the beard is seen. Some hunters don't know the difference between a hen or tom and just see the beard.
For me, the one I shot - it was my 20th yr hunting with the guy I started with sitting right next to me and this hen was a great challenge. She sports my wall now forever.
So each to their own and like I posted I won't take another. That picuture was the 5th I have seen while hunting and then the very next day I saw my 6th....
JW
04-05-2012, 08:20 AM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: North Louisiana
Posts: 3,050
I see nothing wrong if someone wants to take a legal bearded hen. I took one a few years ago in Tenn. I probably wouldn't shoot another since I have taken one though. JW, that one has a rope for a hen. I carry my video camera with me just about everytime I go, so I film way more turkeys than I kill.
