Gobbler Nation

Shiloh wrote:Timbr......how dare you mock one of the elite turkey killing purist!?!?!?

Hognutz wrote: ↑June 3rd, 2019, 3:54 pm longspurs.. You are the master of assumption!!
You’re personal attacks are neither wanted nor warranted. Grow up!!

aristico wrote: ↑June 3rd, 2019, 4:18 pm Looks like someones days are numbered on here...

decoykrvr wrote: ↑June 3rd, 2019, 3:32 pm I never intimated that I had a problem w/ someone jump shooting ducks. However, there is a vast difference w/ jump shooting ducks or geese and sluicing them while they are sitting/sleeping on the water. I'm pretty sure that everyone who has hunted has probably done something while hunting in their past which they regret and wouldn't do now, and as a friend of mine said, "I used to s--t in my pants ,but as I grew older, I learned better, and quit." This past season, when I asked the landowner if anyone had harvested a gobbler this season on his property he replied, "Yea, So and So, a seasoned turkey hunter, killed a jake cause he said that he wanted to have one this year on the books." Like a lot of turkey hunters, I'm long past "killing a jake for the books." I'm not an elitist, I killed a fair amount of jakes as a beginning turkey hunter and was understandably proud of my success, but as my skill level has matured, so has my desire to let young gobblers and bearded hens walk. According to the late Lovette Williams, Jr., about 2-4 percent of hens have beards, and " A bearded hen is just as important to the population's productivity as is a beardless hen." I had a bearded bird work to calling this past season, and as I looked at the turkey through binoculars thought that the "jake" sure sounded like a hen. I realized what I was dealing with and called the bird to within 15 feet, and as I examined her spurless legs silently hoped that she would sucessfully nest this spring. The real difference between "seasoned" hunters and "nimrods" is the true/pure enjoyment of the hunt which doesn't have to culminate w/ a kill/harvest to be sucessful.

simpzenith wrote: ↑June 4th, 2019, 8:46 am Believe Jake when he says the turkey population is not hurting in WI. In fact, one might say they are overpopulated in many areas and there are definitely too many hens running around, that's for sure.

ICDEDTURKES wrote: ↑June 4th, 2019, 5:32 pm I wonder why they don't open a hen season two weeks prior to gobblers season. It would help with all this henned up talk

decoykrvr wrote: ↑June 3rd, 2019, 3:32 pm I never intimated that I had a problem w/ someone jump shooting ducks. However, there is a vast difference w/ jump shooting ducks or geese and sluicing them while they are sitting/sleeping on the water. I'm pretty sure that everyone who has hunted has probably done something while hunting in their past which they regret and wouldn't do now, and as a friend of mine said, "I used to s--t in my pants ,but as I grew older, I learned better, and quit." This past season, when I asked the landowner if anyone had harvested a gobbler this season on his property he replied, "Yea, So and So, a seasoned turkey hunter, killed a jake cause he said that he wanted to have one this year on the books." Like a lot of turkey hunters, I'm long past "killing a jake for the books." I'm not an elitist, I killed a fair amount of jakes as a beginning turkey hunter and was understandably proud of my success, but as my skill level has matured, so has my desire to let young gobblers and bearded hens walk. According to the late Lovette Williams, Jr., about 2-4 percent of hens have beards, and " A bearded hen is just as important to the population's productivity as is a beardless hen." I had a bearded bird work to calling this past season, and as I looked at the turkey through binoculars thought that the "jake" sure sounded like a hen. I realized what I was dealing with and called the bird to within 15 feet, and as I examined her spurless legs silently hoped that she would sucessfully nest this spring. The real difference between "seasoned" hunters and "nimrods" is the true/pure enjoyment of the hunt which doesn't have to culminate w/ a kill/harvest to be sucessful.