“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
Roger.
Without that camera you wouldn’t have hunted, correct?
What about your neighbors? They doing the same thing? It’d be pretty hard to get whipped by a turkey in the morning, go home, later on your phone dings with him on camera, and not go back out there and chase him again.
I guess it goes back to a persons definition of hunting. I mean if you’re in it for the turkey meat to put food on the table, then by all means more power to you, go out and put more cameras up, it’s within the law.
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The moral of the story as I see it.......So many people don't get what turkey hunting is all about.
It's certainly not the kill, that is secondary to the hunt itself and the Tom Foolery.
I've never shot one that I didn't want to stand him back up and watch him do it again, and again, and again.
Last edited by Calibogue; 04-16-2024 at 06:20 AM.
\"I never saw a wild thing feel sorry for itself. A small bird will drop dead frozen from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.\" <br />D.H. LAWRENCE
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
I'm calling BS on you and any other turkey poet that would say this. If it was all about the "chase", very few turkeys would need to be killed each year. Y'all could chase all you wanted and the only need to kill one would be population control. Y'all like pulling that trigger just as much as the next guy.
how do you know you "missed clean"?
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
Was in tall grass and ran through tall grass. If the bird was wounded some blood would have gotten on the grass. Spent 45 minutes looking. Not a drop.
“Duck hunting gives a man a chance to see the loneliest places …blinds washed by a rolling surf, blue and gold autumn marshes, …a rice field in the rain, flooded pin-oak forests or any remote river delta. In duck hunting the scene is as important as the shooting.” ~ Erwin Bauer, The Duck Hunter’s Bible, 1965
Yea, just because you weren't able to find any blood in the tall grass, that hardly seems conclusive to me. You may not have hit the bird but I'd assume the odds are good that at least one pellet hit him when take into consideration the size of your shot pattern at "about 60 yards". Also if the blind is for your father in law and your wife and kids, why did you choose to go there first when you were by yourself and believed the bird to be 275 yards away?
Y'all care more about a stupid bird than you do the important things in life. If y'all care so much about doing everything the "right way", I'm assuming you never have a quickie with your old lady and always precede sex with a massage and at least 30 minutes of foreplay, because you know, that's the only proper way to do it if you respect your lady. I hope that analogy helps y'all understand how absurd y'all sound.
Oh VG, deep down you’re the same way with deer.
You enjoy the chase. The cameras, the stands, tracking weather and wind, the managing property, the teaching your kids, etc, etc.
I mean for deer anyone can go put out a bag of corn in the woods and go kill one over it? But you enjoy the hunt, the chase, and the work am I right?
Reading the original post I thought it was satire after all the other threads. Figured it might be real when there was no reference to a strutter decoy
The cell cam and the blind is the legal leisurely version of shooting out the truck window........
What he did was legal. If you don't like his actions being legal, work to change the laws. After the first sentence i knew he was getting a thrashing from the purists.
I'm human and no where near perfect, but yes I work extremely hard and try to do things "the right way, in every facet of life-business, marriage, raising kids, day to day". Shortcuts, cheating, taking the easy way out is not how I was raised and not how I'll raise my kids to accomplish whatever they want. I may have been young and dumb for a period of my life, but I'm at least not young anymore. Grown men should do better in such instances. That's just my opinion, and no one has to like it. It's not personal, but it is what I believe and turkey hunting and preserving the resource is a passion of mine.
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