Turkey gonna turkey

[darealdeal]

Honest question and I’m not trying to pile on.

Do you think it’s ethical to see a turkey on camera, get your stuff and go hunt him on a day that you otherwise weren’t going to hunt?

To be honest have never given it much of a thought. Every property around me uses them and almost every person I know that hunt uses them. Only people I know that do not use them don’t have a club or land to place them on.

[FULLCHOKE]

To be honest have never given it much of a thought. Every property around me uses them and almost every person I know that hunt uses them. Only people I know that do not use them don’t have a club or land to place them on.

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.

[Calibogue]

camera
pup tent
crawl
crawl
crawl
60 yards
chase
second hail mary shot
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.

[darealdeal]

camera
pup tent
crawl
crawl
crawl
60 yards
chase
second hail mary shot
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.

There was not second shot. Bird was not wounded and could not get a clear second attempt.

[Remy]

camera
pup tent
crawl
crawl
crawl
60 yards
chase
second hail mary shot
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.

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.

[TheVisorGuy]

camera
pup tent
crawl
crawl
crawl
60 yards
chase
second hail mary shot
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.

You just typed one big long opinion of yours

[2thDoc]

how do you know you "missed clean"?

[darealdeal]

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.

[CUduckreeper]

how do you know you "missed clean"?

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?

[Remy]

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.

[FULLCHOKE]

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?

[TheVisorGuy]

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?

I do but I also enjoy killing them knee deep in corn. I’m going to use every legal means I can

[ShortMagFan]

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

[BRR]

The cell cam and the blind is the legal leisurely version of shooting out the truck window........

[centurian]

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.

[PharmHunter]

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.

We are working/trying.

Call it purist or whatever you want.

[Remy]

We are working/trying.

Call it purist or whatever you want.

The problem most of us have with the purist mindset is that it is selective. Do you work hard and do things the "right way" in every facet of life? Do you never use shortcuts or take the easy way out?

[GBelly]

The problem most of us have with the purist mindset is that it is selective. Do you work hard and do things the "right way" in every facet of life? Do you never use shortcuts or take the easy way out?

perspective, but you are comparing apples to donuts

[Remy]

perspective, but you are comparing apples to donuts

Somewhat apples to donuts, but not in the sense that you mean. I'd argue that if you are such a purist in turkey hunting, you best be a super purist in the things that actually matter (faith, marriage, parenting, work, etc.). If not, then it's all the more sad.

[PharmHunter]

The problem most of us have with the purist mindset is that it is selective. Do you work hard and do things the "right way" in every facet of life? Do you never use shortcuts or take the easy way out?

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.