I have to say...

**trkykilr** · 05-11-2017, 09:13 PM

And I've discussed it with others. This bidness about killing a bird that didn't gobble or gobbled two hours ago or some such thing, y'all can have that.

You may be a better turkey hunter than me, more patient than me, smarter than me, and I'm good with all of that. I hunt turkeys to hear them gobble, and when they don't gobble, I don't hunt them. I may walk miles looking for one gobbling, but I'll be damned if I'm gonna sit and hope one walks up.

Don't mistake me for someone that isn't thrilled for those of you that can do it, but that ain't me at all. More power to you.

**willk** · 05-11-2017, 09:18 PM

"I don't hunt gay turkeys" -Michael Boozer

**SaltMuck** · 05-11-2017, 09:19 PM

Preach. I ain't all about the waiting game. If they ain't cooperating on their end, I'm out. I seriously doubt I've ever shot a bird I didn't have pegged down.

**trkykilr** · 05-11-2017, 09:24 PM

If I had a dollar for every time during a season I said "surely there's one gobbling somewhere on this place", I could buy enough land to make that true

**GreenHeadRocker** · 05-11-2017, 09:58 PM

Ain't nobody got time fer that. -Sugar Brown

**MKW** · 05-11-2017, 10:03 PM

You know I'm with you. Damn a silent bird. I love a stupid, hard gobbling turkey and I hunt every day trying to find one. I killed one this season that never gobbled in the 2+ hours that it took me to kill him, but I could see him and he broke into strut every time I called, so he was responding. It was an epic cat and mouse game...and I'm a badass killer cat.

**trkykilr** · 05-11-2017, 10:05 PM

Originally Posted by MKW

You know I'm with you. Damn a silent bird. I love a stupid, hard gobbling turkey and I hunt every day trying to find one. I killed one this season that never gobbled in the 2+ hours that it took me to kill him, but I could see him and he broke into strut every time I called, so he was responding. It was an epic cat and mouse game...and I'm a badass killer cat.

I'm very happy for you Sylvester. While you were pawing at that mouse, I was hunting hot turkeys and drinking Natty Light.

**MKW** · 05-11-2017, 10:15 PM

Originally Posted by trkykilr

I'm very happy for you Sylvester. While you were pawing at that mouse, I was hunting hot turkeys and drinking Natty Light.

Yeah, I'm sure. I had to kill that turkey to shake off some bad funk that you put on me after walking 7 miles trying to find a hot turkey. And, I had a Natty Light too.

**jwmetz** · 05-12-2017, 03:41 AM

They just aint worth killing if they don't gobble.

**M2Field** · 05-12-2017, 07:46 AM

When I first started turkey hunting I would sit for hours. I once sat 9 hours in the same creek bottom trying to kill a turkey that was using the area. I did kill him just not that day. But back then I had all the free time in the world and still enjoyed that type of hunt.

Could not imagine hunting that way now. Not that I don't want to kill them any less than I did 25 years ago, that's just not a hunt I'm interested in investing time into. I stay on the move until I find a bird gobbling. Don't have time with family/kids and work to sit around wasting time, for a hunt that really does nothing for me.

The last bird I killed on a set up and sit hunt was about 7 years ago. If turkeys didn't gobble I would not hunt them.

**pee dee** · 05-12-2017, 07:57 AM

I don't like to deer hunt them, but every coupla years or so I find a gobbler in which it becomes personal. When this happens I will do what it takes to
Make him dead.

**dixiedeerslaya** · 05-12-2017, 08:08 AM

the longer i hunt, the more impatient i have become. i find myself now wanting to move constantly on a gobbling turkey until i either bust him, or am 100% confident that im in the best position i can get in. sometimes it means moving 30 yards, sometimes its backing out and circling all the way around him, sometimes its just moving up one more tree to get a better shot if he comes in. ive never had the patients to sit and wait on a turkey that i dont know is there. i mind fuck myself too much for that. i can watch one in a field for hours. even if i know i have no chance of killing him. just as long as i can see him.

ive said it 1000 times---- the reason i like to turkey hunt so much is because its NOT deer hunting.

**Red Huck** · 05-12-2017, 08:09 AM

Originally Posted by MKW

Yeah, I'm sure. I had to kill that turkey to shake off some bad funk that you put on me after walking 7 miles trying to find a hot turkey. And, I had a Natty Light too.

Y'all drink some nasty beer.

**Simple Man** · 05-12-2017, 08:11 AM

I kilt one this year that didn't gobble. Didn't waste any time on him though. It was quick. Ain't that right, Feets?

I keep comfortable boots for turkey hunting cause I know I'm gonna be walking. A lot. I could have killed 3x the turkeys I have if I was more patient, but I would have had 1/3 of the fun.

**swampchicken** · 05-12-2017, 08:13 AM

Originally Posted by pee dee

I don't like to deer hunt them, but every coupla years or so I find a gobbler in which it becomes personal. When this happens I will do what it takes to
Make him dead.

X2

**Gut_Pile** · 05-12-2017, 08:26 AM

I find no joy in just sitting there calling to nothing, but there is something very special about killing the silent ninja that materializes out of nowhere when working a different bird.

Those sneaky fucks can rot in hell.