I dont know if its been posted here before or not. Arrow Affliction had bow fishing turkeys on their show. This is the first time I have ever saw anything like this before,did anyone else see this? So who is going to be the first on Old Gobbler to try this?
Can that even be legal?
I don't know. I was sitting in my easy chair relaxing next thing I saw was Chris Brackett talking about bow fishing for turkey's. I just had to watch it, it was on the outdoor channel. He made the bow fishing arrow accept a rage and lumenock. Then shot a jake that he made a bad shot on and he held him back with the string while the turkey tried to fly away. He also shot a long beard.
Watching brackett is never a good idea
:TooFunny: I know what you mean. I just had the tv on and I was looking around on here and looked up when I heard him say what he was going to do. I really couldn't believe he was going to shoot a turkey with a bow fishing set up.
I guess it's no worse than when Waddell & company attempt to kill one with a pellet gun. Not for me.
I don't think I saw that one. Nothing I see on these hunting shows supprise me.
I know a guy that does something like it but he uses yard and a long bow. He said its to help him track, I guess his yard bundle is about 300yards. I didn't see the show but Im sure he was reeling in the turkey which is totally wrong. And as far as pellet guns check out what a .25 cal pellet will do to a turkey shot in the head at 15 or 20 yards. Way more practical than anything I have seen in a long time. Of course I shoot my birds with a 12ga. Turkey hunting to me is a shotgun sport.
Quote from: budtripp on January 24, 2014, 10:20:06 PM
Watching brackett is never a good idea
This. Brackett is an unethical idiot. Anyone who intentionally shoots a deer in the guts just because he uses a Rage broadhead has no business anywhere on tv or IMO the woods.
Agreed. I don't support unethical hunters
Quote from: Deputy 14 on January 24, 2014, 10:45:02 PM
Quote from: budtripp on January 24, 2014, 10:20:06 PM
Watching brackett is never a good idea
This. Brackett is an unethical idiot. Anyone who intentionally shoots a deer in the guts just because he uses a Rage broadhead has no business anywhere on tv or IMO the woods.
I agree with that 110%
Quote from: socalturkeyman on January 24, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
I know a guy that does something like it but he uses yard and a long bow. He said its to help him track, I guess his yard bundle is about 300yards. I didn't see the show but Im sure he was reeling in the turkey which is totally wrong. And as far as pellet guns check out what a .25 cal pellet will do to a turkey shot in the head at 15 or 20 yards. Way more practical than anything I have seen in a long time. Of course I shoot my birds with a 12ga. Turkey hunting to me is a shotgun sport.
I am not going to put down anyone who bow hunts Turkeys . But to me if I am watching a show and they start hunting Turkeys with a bow, I turn the channel. It don't even look right watching a bird hobble off and lay down.. I want too see him flop if I am going to shoot one.
Quote from: ericjames on January 24, 2014, 11:01:50 PM
Quote from: socalturkeyman on January 24, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
I know a guy that does something like it but he uses yard and a long bow. He said its to help him track, I guess his yard bundle is about 300yards. I didn't see the show but Im sure he was reeling in the turkey which is totally wrong. And as far as pellet guns check out what a .25 cal pellet will do to a turkey shot in the head at 15 or 20 yards. Way more practical than anything I have seen in a long time. Of course I shoot my birds with a 12ga. Turkey hunting to me is a shotgun sport.
I am not going to put down anyone who bow hunts Turkeys . But to me if I am watching a show and they start hunting Turkeys with a bow, I turn the channel. It don't even look right watching a bird hobble off and lay down.. I want too see him flop if I am going to shoot one.
That's why I use bullheads when I bow hunt. They don't hobble off when you remove their head.
Quote from: jblackburn on January 24, 2014, 11:14:03 PM
Quote from: ericjames on January 24, 2014, 11:01:50 PM
Quote from: socalturkeyman on January 24, 2014, 10:40:44 PM
I know a guy that does something like it but he uses yard and a long bow. He said its to help him track, I guess his yard bundle is about 300yards. I didn't see the show but Im sure he was reeling in the turkey which is totally wrong. And as far as pellet guns check out what a .25 cal pellet will do to a turkey shot in the head at 15 or 20 yards. Way more practical than anything I have seen in a long time. Of course I shoot my birds with a 12ga. Turkey hunting to me is a shotgun sport.
I am not going to put down anyone who bow hunts Turkeys . But to me if I am watching a show and they start hunting Turkeys with a bow, I turn the channel. It don't even look right watching a bird hobble off and lay down.. I want too see him flop if I am going to shoot one.
That's why I use bullheads when I bow hunt. They don't hobble off when you remove their head.
I ain't going to lie if I was going to hunt with a bow. That's the only way to do it, y'all are bad to the bone.. I actually get on YouTube watch the bullhead and the gulletine videos all the time. I was meaning that toward the body shots.
I saw it. . . thought it was ridiculous like most of his stuff. But I guess it's not much different than the string tracker deal that was once used.
I had never seen that show until that episode came on - changed it immediately. Can't imagine anything much more cruel that arrowing a turkey and then yanking it around in a rope for your enjoyment.
I hope that's how he goes out...takes an arrow to the guts and then gets drug around by a rope for a bit while a bunch of a-holes hoot and holler as he suffers.
Hunting with a bow is true skill it's just not for me. I have helped bow hunters in the past and will continue in my neck of the woods. But it still doesn't change my mind that it's a shotgun sport.
Hunters bashing hunters for there choice of hunting methods is a bad idea. I have recovered many birds that"hobbled off". Not all deer drop dead from arrow wound in sight. Still,hunters go out every fall to bowhunt deer without gulletines and bullheads. :TrainWreck1:
I have no problem with bow hunting. I have a problem with some jackarse yanking a bird around on a rope for his enjoyment.
I do not watch many of the hunting shows but if Brackett did shoot a turkey with a bow fishing set up it wouldn't surprise me a bit. I have seen one of his idiotic stunts in person to where he showed no respect for other humans safety when he was shooting some foam disc flying through the air INDOORS at the ATA show without a proper backstop that would stop arrows being shot from a compound.
The LaPorte trap company had their new machines in a try out area with low poundage recurves and flu flu arrows. There was a curtain hanging behind the designated shooting area designed to stop arrows from these recurves NOT compounds.
I watched him shoot thru the curtain more than once with his compound and the arrows were sticking in the wall in the next part of the convention center overhead of people walking below.
The convention center security and ATA (Archery Trade Association) staff showed up and shut down the try out area because of one man's ignorance!
This was a few years back and I believe the show was in Indianapolis that year.
After reading some of the comments about bowhunting for turkey. I will add that I have hunted them all over the US and Mexico with Archery equipment and with the broadheads on todays market you will see that they are very lethal.
I have a few videos on youtube where you can see some turkeys expire rather quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/user/gslam95
This just sounds stupid. As soon as I heard this I immediately thought of the banter between two guys I work with. The one guy puts out corn for the birds on his property all through the season & the other guy jokes with him about why he don't just put a hook through the corn and attach a cable to a tree. Kinda the same concept as shooting them with an arrow and dragging them back. Turkey hunting with a bow is OK but that is taking it to far. I have and always will use a shotgun IMO.....
BOO-YOW!!!!! :OGturkeyhead:
Quote from: GSLAM95 on January 27, 2014, 11:24:58 AM
After reading some of the comments about bowhunting for turkey. I will add that I have hunted them all over the US and Mexico with Archery equipment and with the broadheads on todays market you will see that they are very lethal.
I have a few videos on youtube where you can see some turkeys expire rather quickly.
https://www.youtube.com/user/gslam95
See this is the only kind of bow hunting Turkeys I would care to do, especially the Super Jake video.