Florida is allowing this year, for birds taken on private land, to harvest your season bag limit on the same day (2 birds, same day, still 2 per spring). Has been 1 per day, 2 per season.
Several times in the past, I would have been able to kill 2 birds on the same hunt. Not 2 in one shot, but kill one and have another hang around and peck the victim.
Would be hard early in the season to just end it all in one day and I don't know what I will do. I do know I have enough friends and family that hunt, leaving my gun at home and just calling would still be a blast, so I am not sure what I will do. I would say in the last 10 years, I probably only fill one tag about 1/2 of the time, so it is not like #2 is a slam dunk every year. A lot of times after I kill #1 I am more into helping others get theirs, so I don't think it would affect me much to end it soon.
Anyone else in a legal state fill their tag early and regret it? Anyone pass and regret it? Just curious. Hopefully I have to make a game day decision!
Guides may like it. Get the guy done and gone and bring in another client.
If I was hunting my local spot, I probably wouldn't take advantage of that. I'd want the opportunity to come back for another hunt.
I hunt Georgia and you can kill three in one shot if you choose to do so. I won't do it. I'm a one bird per hunt kind of guy. But thirty minutes after I've killed is another hunt. I have killed three in a day, but it was three hunts spread over about six hours.
Only can take 1 per day up here in Ontario but even if I could fill both tags in one day I never would. I enjoy the whole process of the hunt too much to have my season end in one outing.
Quote from: guesswho on February 20, 2015, 07:09:03 PM
I hunt Georgia and you can kill three in one shot if you choose to do so. I won't do it. I'm a one bird per hunt kind of guy. But thirty minutes after I've killed is another hunt. I have killed three in a day, but it was three hunts spread over about six hours.
I'd prefer this.
I don't mind two being killed on one set up as long as I've got a buddy or one of my kids along. I don't want to end the season that quick. However, traveling to an additional state or two is a good way to cure that problem.
Can kill 4 in one day here in Texas. I have done it when I'm traveling to multiple states in the past.
Gman
Only one per day here in NY in the spring, even if we could kill two at once I'm not sure I would under most circumstances (late in the season or knowing you had limited time left to hunt would be exceptions). If I'm traveling though and I've spent a couple hundred on an out of state license and probably only have a few days to hunt anyway then I am absolutely going to take multiple birds if it's allowed and the opportunity presents itself.
A friend and myself shot 4 in Kansas a few years back. We were all smirks and smiles until it dawned that Missouri was 2 weeks away. Now i like getting that opening day bird, but after that i could hunt til the last day and bird or no bird be entirely satisfied with the season.
Quote from: Gamblinman on February 20, 2015, 07:46:40 PM
Can kill 4 in one day here in Texas. I have done it when I'm traveling to multiple states in the past.
Gman
Done it myself under similar circumstances.
If I were on a trip and the opportunity came up, then yep. I'd pop 2. If I only hunted one state each spring, it would kill me to be done in one day.
Wouldn't think twice. I know enough people who would like to hunt with me.
My thought has always been that you cheat yourself or someone else of a recreational experience, maybe several recreational experiences without doubling or tripling or quadrupling the experience.
one per day, two per season in Maryland
If I have plans in other states, I would be more prone to doubling in my home state. If I have friends that need help calling, etc....I would double in my home state.
If it's just one state and I have no others planning on my help, I'm prolonging the season unless I have other variables like long travel distance to get to my spot regularly.
I will do it given the chance but shot #2 has to be a high percentage shot. Then I concentrate on fishing and putting other folks on birds. I like to turkey hunt, but I like to do lots of other things too.
If it were legal here in Alabama I would. I love to hunt Turkey. Not necessarily shoot them. I'd call or film for my dad or brother the rest of the season.
Maybe on a trip, not at home. We can shoot 2 a season here, any legal time and method. I do like to "win the battle" but the experience is what I like. I eat what I kill but do not need to. If I just need food, I will go to the local supermarket. Some people still hunt and fish to ease the financial burden of buying food. To those people, take all the legal fish and game you are entitled to. Only my 2 cents. Al Baker
I'd take 2 in one day if it were legal here.
Since I hunt SC every year, and usually another state as well, I'd do it if given the opportunity, and both were nice gobblers. If it was back in the day when I only hunted FLA, then I'd have a decision to make.
one per day and two per season in arkansas no jakes unless its a youth
I was on a trip in Oklahoma with a friend from PA his first Rio hunt. I'm talking five minutes into our first set up two gobblers come right in on his side. He shots the first one and the other is just standing there. I can't get a shot so I'm saying shoot, shoot, shoot. He says wasn't going to end his hunt in the first five minutes. Bad luck and biblical rain sets in and at the end of the hunt he's only one not tagged out and hunting in the biblical rain. His words to me and ever since have been. I SHOULD'VE SHOT THAT SECOND ONE! To each his own but where legal a bird in hand is good two even better!
I only hunt Florida, and two years ago I was out with my dad on opening morning and I called in a couple birds. He shot his, I gave a couple yelps and shot the second right of the top of his birds back. The next weekend we went to another spot and doubled again on our second set up of the morning. It was a blast for sure, turkey hunting at it fullest and it made some good memories but the rest of the season sucked. And my buddies who "kinda" hunt just didn't have their head in the game so there was really no more hunting for me that year. To me its not about tagging out, but just about getting after them.
I will not be killing two in a day, unless maybe its the last day.
Quote from: silvestris on February 20, 2015, 11:36:54 PM
My thought has always been that you cheat yourself or someone else of a recreational experience, maybe several recreational experiences without doubling or tripling or quadrupling the experience.
My attitude exactly. Shooting more than one bird at a time is going from "hunting" to "body counting". Once again, the thrill of turkey hunting is in all that goes on before the trigger is pulled. Killing more than one bird at a time is just eliminating the opportunity for yourself or someone else to experience that thrill again on another occasion.
Quote from: hotrod3h on February 21, 2015, 07:15:23 PM
I was on a trip in Oklahoma with a friend from PA his first Rio hunt. I'm talking five minutes into our first set up two gobblers come right in on his side. He shots the first one and the other is just standing there. I can't get a shot so I'm saying shoot, shoot, shoot. He says wasn't going to end his hunt in the first five minutes. Bad luck and biblical rain sets in and at the end of the :toothy12: hunt he's only one not tagged out and hunting in the biblical rain. His words to me and ever since have been. I SHOULD'VE SHOT THAT SECOND ONE! To each his own but where legal a bird in hand is good two even better!
Classic example of angering the turkey gods right there. Here's how it works: The turkey gods place turkey hunters in the woods to test individual turkeys on their worthiness to be a turkey. If they allow a hunter to call them in within shotgun range, they have disgraced themselves as turkeys and must be removed. This is how balance is
maintained in the turkey world. When a hunter consciously decides not to follow through, they incur the wrath of the turkey gods. :toothy9:
Since I hunt public land ( Florida WMA's ) almost exclusively, 2 in one day doesn't come into play. I have however finished my season by 8:00am on day two. I still hit the woods every weekend ( sans shotgun ) and called for my Dad and buddies. Had a blast and enjoyed every minute of it. Now if I couldn't continue to at least participate in the hunt I probably wouldn't take two birds on my opening weekend.
I've always wanted to either kill two in one shot or kill two on the same hunt, but I had the opportunity to do that last year in Washington on opening day and could not bring myself to do it.