i love being attacked.
notice what I said was in quotes.
spurs are NOT indicative of age per dr chamberlain and other turkey study people that know more than me and tfc combined.
so, dont argue with me but what you wrote is incorrect.
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
It's never the tooth ache.
its complicated, especially if you're on 'shrooms.
but people keep harping on spurs. but someone on this very website posted a neat study that came to the conclusion that "spurs are not indicative of age" but no one seems to stop dick measuring spurs.
I wonder sometimes if its just silly to keep on repeating the same thing but then
oh look a squirrel
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
WAY TO GO!!!!!
Congrats
\"We say grace and we say maam, if you ain\'t into that, we don\'t give a damn.\" HW Jr.
Good killin Jimmy
I don’t care how old they are, but I like spurs.
Them that don't know him won't like him, and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong, he's just different, and his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
They don't put Championship rings on smooth hands
All that matters to me is that he's not a jake before I shoot. It's not like a buck where you can tell age, size, etc. before, so it doesn't matter to me. Long spurs are less common, so they are neat, though.
People love to say that pressured birds gobble less, and maybe Chamberlain's data supports it, but I've never really seen that to be the case. I've seen them move and shift their range, but gobbling frequency seems more like personality and number of hens around. I know of a few birds in the past that have a truck parked on them every day of the season, but they still gobble their heads off at the end. Conversely, I've chased birds that barely gobble 5x all morning consistently, and I'm the only one hunting them.
Congrats on the bird. I do think public makes it cooler, any killing one that's been whooping you is gratifying. I had one bird beat me 5-6 times this year, so naturally I determined him to be the long-spurred ancient patriarch of the public woods. I finally killed what I presumed to be the same bird, and he had the 3/4" spurs of a 2 year old. Funny birds. They're all different and all fun to chase.
Last edited by WNM; 05-03-2023 at 08:20 AM.
Yep, turkeys are gonna be turkeys. Sometimes their behavior makes absolutely no sense, to us anyway.
On the topic of having one whip you 5-6 times, a buddy and I went camping and hunting a different NF district a few weeks ago. We hunted a creek bottom where I killed one last year while camping. I found a bird willing to work before he got there and some idiot tried to ruin my hunt by blowing an owl hoot about 15 times, DURING THE MIDDLE OF THE F'ING DAY!!! How many times do you need to make him shock gobble? If he's gonna be a jerk and try to sneak in on a bird I'm working, just sit down and start hen calling! That gobbler shut up and left and if I'd have seen the guy doing this we'd have had a conversation...
Anyway my buddy and I stayed after that bird for 2 full days, got him fired up 6 times, never saw him. Sometimes lost him to hens, sometimes just shut up and we never saw him. It'd be funny if we had and he turned out to be a Jake that just gobbles hard.
I do my best to hunt and fish where I will have no contact with others. It can be difficult, but the effort is worth it, even if it means less fish or game around.
I'd be lying if I said I haven't spent days on what turned out to be a jake before. The whole "act like a man, get treated like a man" came to mind, but I resisted the urge.
I remember when I was the only one hunting by boat. Cant swing a dead cat without hitting another turkey hunter anymore. I wish turkey hunting was "[still] gay" -PBiz.
"Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery elements are for wise men to contemplate and for fools to pass by without consideration" -Izaak Walton
You're a better man than I. Now I've never killed a Jake but that's only because I've been fortunate enough that all the turkeys I've had in range have been adults. I've seen and heard Jakes but never in range.
Early season I'd probably let one go. Late season, especially after trying for the same one a few times, he'd get copper plated #5s and I wouldn't even hesitate.
Heck we already have a shortened WMA season and can't hunt Sundays. With that much opportunity taken from me, I'm not about to eat all my tags if I've still got them all during that last week and a nub beard walks by me. I'll be eating turkey!
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