Different people do different things for toms flopping around on the ground after the shot. Usually I just let em flop and expire but that sometimes messes up the fans. What do you do?
Carefully step on the head. Watch the spurs.
Step on the head. If you want him to look good for a mount or picture, you better grab his legs and get him lifted off the ground as soon as you get a foot on the head. If not, he may still end up ringing his own neck and blowing off about half his feathers.
After about 30 years, experience has taught me to just let em flop. :funnyturkey:
Foot on the neck!
I know that I am in the minority here on this, but I hold him down on the ground with his wings pressed against his back and his feet under him. Every gobbler that I done this to simply expires with minimal extra damage.
FullChoke
Quote from: Wingbone on March 02, 2013, 12:47:28 PM
Step on the head. If you want him to look good for a mount or picture, you better grab his legs and get him lifted off the ground as soon as you get a foot on the head. If not, he may still end up ringing his own neck and blowing off about half his feathers.
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bear hug... :popcorn:
Full nelson for me
Quote from: SinGin on March 02, 2013, 04:05:38 PM
Full nelson for me
^^^That's a good one!!! I sometimes break out the headlock and DDT!!!
I Always stomp on there head, My Buddy calls that the Crunchy Dance.
I keep shooting until he's not flopping at all, seems to work great...just kidding.
I either put a boot on his head or just let him flop until he expires.
I carefully grab the legs and hoist them in the air to let them flop their last without beating out their feathers. I've been pretty lucky cause I've only been spurred twice. :lol:
I look at them to see if they have any control over ther head. If they don't I let them be. I had one get up and I've heard of lots of them getting up. If his head is flopping around like a dish rag he's done.
Quote from: RutnNStrutn on March 02, 2013, 05:51:56 PM
I carefully grab the legs and hoist them in the air to let them flop their last without beating out their feathers. I've been pretty lucky cause I've only been spurred twice. :lol:
And when you finally kill your third bird you will get spurred for the third time.
Just kidding, but you know I couldn't pass up such an easy one :toothy9:
Usually grab em by their neck, & let em finish themselves! :newmascot:
shoot his buddy that comes to jump on him.
I personally hurry out and put my foot on his neck and then carefully grab his legs and give a little pull to make sure the neck is broke! Worse thing I get is maybe a little wing slap to the legs!
Quote from: guesswho on March 02, 2013, 06:55:41 PM
Quote from: RutnNStrutn on March 02, 2013, 05:51:56 PM
I carefully grab the legs and hoist them in the air to let them flop their last without beating out their feathers. I've been pretty lucky cause I've only been spurred twice. :lol:
And when you finally kill your third bird you will get spurred for the third time.
Just kidding, but you know I couldn't pass up such an easy one :toothy9:
I'd be disappointed if you did!!! ;D
Foot on head, grab his legs, get cut with spurs, usually in that order....lol :fud:
It depends, I have jumped up-ran over to the bird - stepped on his head - been spurred bad enough in my earlier years that I even had to get my hand stitched up.
Anymore I usually just watch how he reacted at the shot, sit there and reminisce about the hunt that just took place, wait for him to finish his death flop, sometimes light up a cigar and then when finished go over and admire the bird before picking him up, tagging and moving on.
Quote from: RutnNStrutn on March 02, 2013, 05:51:56 PM
I carefully grab the legs and hoist them in the air to let them flop their last without beating out their feathers. I've been pretty lucky cause I've only been spurred twice. :lol:
This is exactly what I do. /\ Works great, but as rutnNstrutn says, you gott watch out for the spurs,. I had my hand laid open back in 1986. It only takes once for you to remember!
I let him flop, he ain't going nowhere lol. Used to run after them like a madman when I first started hunting. Not sure why, maybe I just couldn't believe I'd actually killed one and didn't want to chance him getting away.
I always like to give them a good stomp to the head then grab their legs abd let them flop.
Stand on the neck, then a quick pith to the head, and bird is DRT....
mudhen
The Old Head Stomp Shuffle.
If he's able to flop off into a creek or something, I'll step on his head...otherwise, I just sit back and let him finish.
step on their legs, then their head.
A couple of years ago I was still running hard out to the bird and standing on his head. Then I switched over to Hevi and Nitro's and when I shot the first bird with them, I got about halfway to him in a dead run and realized there was no point. So now, even with lead I shoot and just watch him. If he tries to get up I will shoot him again...
Well... after reading the above posts I guess im just weird?? I dont stand on their head. I reach down and grab them right above the waddles and squeeze (usually with 2 hands). This puts em out pretty quick and avoids gettin spurred in the hands! You can literally hear the air leave them when their finally DONE... Just my way of doing it :toothy9:
usually by the time I get up and get over to them, they have stopped flopping so I just admire them.
If I'm not absolutely sure he is a goner, I generally step on his neck until he stops moving. If I'm sure he is on his way to Turkey Nirvana, I usually don't do anything. I still get up quickly almost every time and keep the gun at ready, just in case, but I don't run headlong like I did in my younger days. I finally figured out a charge of shot will get there much quicker at 1200 fps than I ever could, if he attempts to make an exit. :)
I pick em up by the neck. They can't spur you that way.
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I give 'em an elbow drop just for driving me crazy and making me wake up all of those cold, damp mornings...:goofball:.
I let him flop and keep on calling.
Send the youngest guy out after them :emoticon-cartoon-012: :toothy12: . that's why i alway's hunt with people younger then me ;D.
I've only wondered whether or not they were dead at the longer distant shots (two to be exact). So those times I ran as fast as I could and put my foot on their head. Any more I just let them flop. It sure beats the heck out of taking a spur. Those things hurt.
I let them flop. I have been flogged, scratched, and spurred enough by now to know better. Those memories are also good motivation to get shots close enough to where even flopping is minimal.
Not much experience here, but on my one bird, I straddled him with one foot on his head and one foot on his feet. As hard as I had worked for him, there was NO WAY I was letting that bird get away. In fact, I almost shot him a second time!!!
:emoticon-cartoon-012: Grab them and run for the property line! Haha, just kidding..
I grab them by the head and sort of twist, and that does that..
Run, stomp, squeeze, shoot, twist, catch breath!!!!! Not always in that order! And not always altogether, but generally some combination of these six!!!!! :funnyturkey:
Quote from: Shotgun on March 04, 2013, 06:39:57 PM
I let him flop and keep on calling.
We stacked them up by doing this in Florida a few years ago. Shot one,he was flopping and we kept calling, another group of 3 came in so I shot one of them, and the two other birds ran 15 yards then cam back to flog the two that were on the ground.
CW
Let your huntin buddy go pick him up,and prepare to start laughing. :z-winnersmiley:
I like to see them suffer from foottohead syndrome.