The 3rd Regiment Game Calls boys out of Tennessee were recently arrested for road hunting turkeys this spring due to an incident in Kentucky, and connected to other illegal take of deer and turkey in other instances. The gentleman had very long drawn out stories of the hunts on their Facebook pages of kills this spring and last spring that have since been deleted.
https://www.wkrn.com/news/local-news/middle-tennessee-men-arrested-in-poaching-investigation/
If call makers and long time turkey hunters are coming to this sort of activity just to post a kill on Facebook, maybe the turkeys are more doomed than we thought.
Got get air time. Fakebook, You Tube.....got to look the part.
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Look at me, look at me, look at me some more. Hey everyone, in case
you didn't know, I'm a turkey hunter. I'm so cool. 6 people like this.
Gotta get those likes from people I don't know, and will never meet.
I need validation from strangers. Please like and share my photo.
Sad to see turkey hunting become part of the instant gratification world.
Don't get me started regarding guys that can't wait for a bird's death flaps to end before they're posting it on social media. Sickening.
This was poachers that just happen to make calls.
Quote from: Turkeyman on July 06, 2021, 02:01:24 PM
Don't get me started regarding guys that can't wait for a bird's death flaps to end before they're posting it on social media. Sickening.
I don't do social media so I haven't seen that before.
They obviously have no respect for the bird.
Hard for me to fathom.
They sold the company before they were convicted, now another guy runs it.
A good friend of mine personally knows the guys who got in trouble. He says one of em is a good dude and the other one is trash. They both made mistakes, but one of em did most of the poaching and then lied about who did what, threw his buddy under the bus to try and get out of some of the charges. I won't say any names. They'll both pay for it, but hopefully the one dude lying about it all gets the book thrown at him.
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Quote from: catman529 on July 06, 2021, 03:38:45 PM
They sold the company before they were convicted, now another guy runs it.
A good friend of mine personally knows the guys who got in trouble. He says one of em is a good dude and the other one is trash. They both made mistakes, but one of em did most of the poaching and then lied about who did what, threw his buddy under the bus to try and get out of some of the charges. I won't say any names. They'll both pay for it, but hopefully the one dude lying about it all gets the book thrown at him.
I definitely know what you're saying, the one gentleman who you're referring to as trash killed a real nice wide TN buck last fall, and has since deleted those posts from his page as well. Definitely makes you wonder about the take of that one too. I never really liked the guy, because he just pimped his mouth calls on as many pages and peoples posts as he possibly could and took "sexy", in nothing but underwear, pictures laying behind dead turkeys and thought it was cool or funny ???
Their calls must suck if they have to shoot turkeys out of a truck window. Bunch of azz clowns.
These guys where on a crime spree.
Say one thing for social media, they now have the evidence to go after these guys.
This is all I needed to know about them and their company. Actually more than I needed to know. This is Jr. Definitely a look at me complex.
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Quote from: guesswho on July 06, 2021, 04:46:55 PM
This is all I needed to know about them and their company. Actually more than I needed to know. This is Jr. Definitely a look at me complex.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51295754225_285825f35b_w.jpg)
If he winds up getting some jail time I'm sure his fellow inmates would love to see that! Cute feller.
Quote from: guesswho on July 06, 2021, 04:46:55 PM
This is all I needed to know about them and their company. Actually more than I needed to know. This is Jr. Definitely a look at me complex.
(https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51295754225_285825f35b_w.jpg)
Why would anyone want to post that anywhere? I haven't seen them on Facebook.
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I don't think Jr. was involved in the incident, I think it was Sr. and another fellow. But there should be laws against this too.
No wonder the turkeys are hiding
They ought to put them under the jail and ban them for life from any outdoor activities! This kind of crap is what gives law abiding outdoors men and women bad names. Know wonder why it's so hard to get permission to hunt and fish.
Just poor ol road hunters that got caught! There are more of these types out there! Nwtf employees, workers for conservation departments, and a ton of social media folks. I have seen and heard the stories they have told there's plenty of bad apples out there.
Quote from: HookedonHooks on July 06, 2021, 03:54:31 PM
Quote from: catman529 on July 06, 2021, 03:38:45 PM
They sold the company before they were convicted, now another guy runs it.
A good friend of mine personally knows the guys who got in trouble. He says one of em is a good dude and the other one is trash. They both made mistakes, but one of em did most of the poaching and then lied about who did what, threw his buddy under the bus to try and get out of some of the charges. I won't say any names. They'll both pay for it, but hopefully the one dude lying about it all gets the book thrown at him.
I definitely know what you're saying, the one gentleman who you're referring to as trash killed a real nice wide TN buck last fall, and has since deleted those posts from his page as well. Definitely makes you wonder about the take of that one too. I never really liked the guy, because he just pimped his mouth calls on as many pages and peoples posts as he possibly could and took "sexy", in nothing but underwear, pictures laying behind dead turkeys and thought it was cool or funny ???
That's not the guy.
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where in tn did these dudes live
As stated previously these are just a couple road hunters that got caught. Poching and illegal activity is rampant. In my area they will shoot a nice deer and have another guy several hundred yards away start doing all kinds of shooting to distract the wardens. Hard to catch them.
Road hunting for turkeys is common everywhere public and private. People feel they have a right. Despite all this Deer and Turkey continue to thrive in some areas. Poaching is just another pitfall for game populations. No sense getting indignant as times and customs are changing and being law abiding is not in favor. I just keep the game wardens number on speed dial.
I'm not sure if it's like this everywhere, but I know several towns where the poachers do way more harm to turkey populations than allowing decoys will ever do.
It is a shame that little can be done with both.
Jr. needs to get arrested for misconduct with that turkey..