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LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: When Do You Shoot?

Last post by High brow drifter - Today at 02:33:05 AM

I'm not going to say I've never taken a bad shot, because I have. For me inside of 50 yards I will usually take the shot, because I'm good with a shotgun. My woodsmanship skills are not that great because I don't have big game.

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LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Knowing When NOT To Pull t...

Last post by High brow drifter - Today at 02:24:31 AM

Quote from: GobbleNut on January 27, 2026, 09:39:00 AMAwaiting the upcoming spring season, I tend to watch a few videos to get the blood pumping. On occasion, I will watch one where the hunter shoots a gobbler...or at one...that I say to myself "you should never have pulled the trigger in that situation". Those times are almost always when the shot is taken when it appears, from the camera angle, that there were other turkeys that could have been hit by the shot.

Giving the hunter the benefit of the doubt, I assume that the camera angle and the shot angle were different and the potential for secondary wounded/killed turkeys is not really there. The point of this post, though, is to discourage folks from taking those questionable shots in situations where multiple birds are too close together. There is never a time when the desire to be successful in killing a gobbler overrides making sure the shot taken is an ethical one.

Now jumping off soapbox...

good post

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LEARNING TO TURKEY HUNT / Re: Confessions of a no killin...

Last post by High brow drifter - Today at 01:55:38 AM

In my fifth season of Turkey hunting, I shot a big gobbler. I had not even seen a gobbler before that. Unfortunately, my friend did not shoot one that day, and I was bummed out about that. After I got that first one, I got another real nice one that fall, and I started getting gobblers at a fairly regular basis.

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