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General Forum / Re: Waste not, want not

Last post by Yoder409 - Today at 05:59:55 PM

Forgot to mention........ My wife's uncle gets most all of the primary wing feathers and makes arrow fletching from them.

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General Forum / Re: Waste not, want not

Last post by lalongbeard75 - Today at 05:50:53 PM

I made some of those comments and could care less about your blood temp.

I've been hunting turkeys for 37 years so I'm not going anywhere soon.
I completely understand reading comprehension is at an all time low in the US...but to repeat what I posted I never waste the meat. I see no difference in who eats it rather it's the one that shot it or someone else?

Your disapproval would be better used for those taking 60 yard pot shots at turkeys and wasting the whole entire bird as well as the reapers and baiters that have zero respect for the bird or how to hunt them fairly.

Using any part of a gobbler for coyote bait seems disrespectful to me but that's my opinion.

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General Forum / Re: Waste not, want not

Last post by Yoder409 - Today at 05:50:14 PM

Good post.

Now.....my confession.  I give all of mine away.

I am the only one in my family that will eat wild turkey.  My Amish next-door neighbor has a bunch of kiddos and they can and do use all the meat I furnish them.  It's a win-win situation.

They also get some venison from time to time.  We DO eat a good bit of that.

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General Forum / Re: Waste not, want not

Last post by Lcmacd 58 - Today at 05:35:48 PM

Thank you and I whole heartily agree

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General Forum / Re: Word Association Game

Last post by Lcmacd 58 - Today at 05:34:24 PM

Weekend

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General Forum / Waste not, want not

Last post by ChesterCopperpot - Today at 05:32:58 PM

There's a lot of things get posted on here I disagree with and that's the nature of the beast. But it's rare something just flat pisses me off. Reading through some of those comments recently about the meat not being a priority, the meat not being the reason you hunt turkeys, made my blood boil. If the meat's not a priority or not the reason you hunt, pick up a camera. Become a photographer. It's about the most disrespectful thing I can imagine to take an animal's life and not care what's used or wasted. Hoping some of those folks will grow up or fade out. I really just hope for the former. I hope they mature as hunters.

I've posted on here before about how I love to can turkey legs. Got to where I really love canning them with mushrooms and onions. Worked through about 16 legs today. I've gotten to where I chop off the bottom portions with loppers so I can fit more in a pot. Gave those lopped off ends to a buddy for coyote bait and he smoked one last night he said kept coming in and snacking on those nubs. Finally got a shot. All that to say, waste not want not. I'll eat good all year and that coyote won't eat good again. May the poults grow to fly, and the flock come to grow. There's not a thing about them birds I don't love to my bones.






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General Forum / Re: Word Association Game

Last post by Manager8 - Today at 05:30:12 PM

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Trumpets / Wingbones Forum / Waste not, want not

Last post by ChesterCopperpot - Today at 05:29:32 PM

Moved to General forum

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General Forum / Re: Jakes on accident...

Last post by lalongbeard75 - Today at 04:18:43 PM

Jakes for the most part in Louisiana have a distinctly different gobble than a mature Gobbler. There was a time when I'd have bet a thousand dollars I could tell the difference. In 2016 I was working a stubborn Gobbler  that went quiet, 10 min later here he comes hard gobbling looking for the hen? When I looked around the tree behind me I was surprised to see a Jake with no more than a 3" beard gobbling every other breath. I'd seen the first Gobbler I'd been working at 80 yards or so he had a beard like a rope so no question this wasn't him. I luckily didn't shoot this Jake but if he'd  been in some brush up to his chest I'd have sworn he was a gobbler. One of the super jakes I guess.

Now hunting up north or the Midwest it's not uncommon to hear a full gobble coming from a Jake. I don't know why that is but it's been my experience. If he's not strutting so I can see the full fan or his full wing patch or beard I don't shoot.

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The Roaring 20's 2024 - The Reckoning / Re: 2024 Roaring 20's Redempti...

Last post by Tom007 - Today at 03:37:49 PM

Congrats on a well deserved win!