Turkey Reaping
05-29-2014, 05:33 AM
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Fork Horn
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05-29-2014, 08:44 AM
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Typical Buck
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In his senerio he talks about shooting a bird coming up over a rise where he can only see a third of it and cant possibly see beyond his target then later complains about someone popping up and shooting a bird where the shooter cant possibly know whats beyond his target? Not sure what I think of this practice of sneaking up on turkeys yet but sounds like hes playing both sides of the fence.
05-29-2014, 08:48 AM
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Fork Horn
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In his senerio he talks about shooting a bird coming up over a rise where he can only see a third of it and cant possibly see beyond his target then later complains about someone popping up and shooting a bird where the shooter cant possibly know whats beyond his target? Not sure what I think of this practice of sneaking up on turkeys yet but sounds like hes playing both sides of the fence.
not at all, two wrongs don't make a right
05-29-2014, 10:35 AM
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I dont understand what you mean by two wrongs dont make a right, that is true but unless I read it wrong he is basically saying the equivalent of hunting deer from a tree stand should be illegal because you may get shot by a squirrel hunter. I dont disagree with his point I just dont understand the way he tries to make his argument.
05-30-2014, 03:24 AM
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grinder67- you might need to reread it, this is a calling out of safety concerns of stalking and how it goes from bad to worse using gobbler decoys,and worse yet, taxidermy/ultra realistic gobbler decoys. Do you really want some one pointing a gun at you and having to decide if you're wearing a decoy hat/gun mount decoy or have a decoy placed out or the real thing. If someone is eyeballing your deke, and decides to snap shoot, it is another set of bad decisions.
05-30-2014, 04:51 AM
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Giant Nontypical
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Seemed pretty straight forward to me! Stalking a gobbler, especially like they are showing on these TV shows by crawling behind a turkey fan, may work, but it's just plain stupid unless you have a huge piece of private property where you can be assured that you are the only one around. Doing it on public land would surely invite disaster!
05-30-2014, 05:19 AM
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Typical Buck
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Seemed pretty straight forward to me! Stalking a gobbler, especially like they are showing on these TV shows by crawling behind a turkey fan, may work, but it's just plain stupid unless you have a huge piece of private property where you can be assured that you are the only one around. Doing it on public land would surely invite disaster!
05-30-2014, 12:35 PM
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***Yep, I don't know how the other member(s) got what they stated because the entire article is written from the writer's perspective that doing such or stalking/creeping up on a turkey are all asking for an accident to happen, which is true on anything other than a tightly controlled piece of private property. I don't think he should use the word "unethical" though just because it's a different way of hunting a turkey under controlled, safe conditions like I mentioned. In fact, I bet it would be a real hoot to deke a mature Tom into charging you or sneaking right up on him when there is no other way to get close. Nevertheless, I'll stay with calling and if I can't get one within range there is always another day to give it the old college try!
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