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Rifle? JFC that's fuggin heresy.
I use a recurve bow. I have hunted and killed turkey with longbows, recurves, rifles, shotguns and muzzleloaders. To heck with the purists, go out and have fun. If it wasn't for the fun of the spring season I would say kill them all. They wrecks lawns, hay pens and carry a disease that kills young calves.
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Best to shoot them with a rifle is well before season, all bachelored up still. Recommend 30 round mag.
Purists would frown on anything more than a 5 round mag
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Best to shoot them with a rifle is well before season, all bachelored up still. Recommend 30 round mag.
Purists would frown on anything more than a 5 round mag Hey ... Your putting raisins in my apple pie right??? Soaked em overnight before adding em to the apples before baking right??? πππππππππππ
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Turkey with a rifle ? wouldn't a .223 give you more range and where would you set up the E caller ?
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I have michigan apples and washington apples. Got them dehydrated in the Coneheads mass-quantity Jerky Master.
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I shouldβve hauled all those peelings out to my giant pile of YellowYelper.
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Turkey with a rifle ? wouldn't a .223 give you more range and where would you set up the E caller ? Give the good ole boys on the TWRC a couple more years so they can pull favors for the good ole boys from their region. Become legal in a couple yrs. No turkeys get shot with a rifle over yellow yelper helper on private land in Tn. We all know that!!!! LOL!!!
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I have michigan apples and washington apples. Got them dehydrated in the Coneheads mass-quantity Jerky Master. Is that what your doing with all them things??? Put some salt on em. Not much... πππππππ
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Half the fun is when they hang up 75 yards away from you , Gets your heart rate up .
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I wonder what would happen if you stuck a big mirror in your decoys. Could be hilarious. Have you ever seen them sneak shields that are mirrored some guys use to put moves on field birds. Buncha vids out their. Toms charging right up to em. Totally pissed off. LOL!!!! Thatβs because for all their wariness and skittishness, and their great senses, theyβre still dumb as....., well turkeys. Seen a bunch of videos where after one is shot the others pile on and stomp the corpse, like bison do sometimes. If the cameraman has a tag, the crew can switch places and whack another one.
What fresh Hell is this?
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Half the fun is when they hang up 75 yards away from you , Gets your heart rate up . 57yds is my record for a hung up bird. Nitro Rays 501L load 4c 5c 7h
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29 turkeys strolled through the back yard this morning. There's a big Tom pecking the front bumper on my truck, currently. They like chrome alot. Must be a thug chicken
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Best to shoot them with a rifle is well before season, all bachelored up still. Recommend 30 round mag.
Purists would frown on anything more than a 5 round mag Hey ... Your putting raisins in my apple pie right??? Soaked em overnight before adding em to the apples before baking right??? πππππππππππ Half the time I don't know what you are saying, and arn't you turkey hunting? why are you making 50 posts when you should be enjoying the hunt? This forum has turned in to the same 5 people posting crap that makes no sense.
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Aint heard a single shot all morning. Got 09b 09a 20 22 All around me and open for hunting. Cars were parked in other areas driving in here.
Weather and low pressure air might have em shut down gobbling all around???
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Iβll happily use a rifle, but donβt want a turkey donut, so shot placement or load choice matters to me. I think a .36-.40 roundball is about ideal. Working on something along those lines now.
Not at all interested in them as big feathery βgroundhogsβ. Too much good meat there, and no challenge at all. Iβm a jackass, but have limits.
What fresh Hell is this?
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They almost always flog the flopper, in my times out. Guess they think someone is crackin a hen. But often the are 2 or 3 toms on the scene. Funny to see jakes run in to get a jab in on a dominate bird. LOL
I had a spike buck attack an 8 point I had down. Kept gouging at his white belly fur. Had to wave it off after a couple mins. Though he was going gut him for me.
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Aint even heard no shots off post.
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Frank Cannon is still at the waffle house
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29 turkeys strolled through the back yard this morning. There's a big Tom pecking the front bumper on my truck, currently. They like chrome alot. Probably seeing his reflection. LOL!!! They like shiny stuff. Buddy of mine went to MS State, worked at the poultry farm. Growing them 50# turkeys. Donβt in the pen with any thing shiny. No watch, rings, necklace chains. Theyβd peck ya.....
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οΏ½The man who complains about the way the ball bounces is likely to be the one who dropped it.οΏ½ Lou Holtz
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Aint heard a single shot all morning. Got 09b 09a 20 22 All around me and open for hunting. Cars were parked in other areas driving in here.
Weather and low pressure air might have em shut down gobbling all around???
Especially early if Toms are close to hens on the roost, thereβs no reason for them to gobble. Lots of times they talk quiet on the tree and fly down together. 10-12 after they finish with those hens they get mouthy looking for love again.
Decades of voting for the lesser of two evils has gotten us just that.....
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