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General Discussion => General Forum => Topic started by: sugarray on April 12, 2011, 07:29:25 PM

Poll
Question: Would you kill first 2 with gun then bow hunt, or kill first with gun and 2nd bow then what ever?
Option 1: First 2 with a gun votes: 30
Option 2: First 1 with gun, 2nd with bow votes: 6
Option 3: Both with bow votes: 0
Title: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: sugarray on April 12, 2011, 07:29:25 PM
If I am blessed enough to kill 2 in the first 2-3 days of hunting I'll buy another tag to kill 2 more.  So how would you shoot um?  Also, I can kill 2 in one day and hunt on Sunday.

Get first 2 down with gun, then focus on bow
Get 1 with gun then 2nd with bow
Or some other way

WWYD?
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: cannonball on April 12, 2011, 07:31:35 PM
2 with a gun, then switch to bow. :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: sugarray on April 12, 2011, 07:32:15 PM
Thanks, please vote
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Gobble! on April 12, 2011, 07:33:21 PM
Just layum out with the gun!!
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: RutnNStrutn on April 12, 2011, 07:35:59 PM
If you are really wanting to get one with a bow, I would get one (or 2) with a gun, then concentrate on bow. You don't want to start out with a bow, and then find yourself at the end of the hunt with no birds, and scrambling to kill one. Get 1 or 2 down, and then break out the bow!
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: hobbes on April 12, 2011, 07:42:38 PM
I'm really crazy about bowhunting, but turkeys hunting is a shotgun hunt for me.  Deer, elk, etc. are bowhunting animals for me.  Not opposed to bowhunting turkeys, but I grew up hunting doves, ducks, and quail with a shotgun and I can't hunt those anymore, so turkeys are all I get to carry a shotgun for.  Unless something changes in the near future, I'd shoot the first 100 with a shotgun along with the next 100.
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: sugarray on April 12, 2011, 07:48:48 PM
Quote from: hobbes on April 12, 2011, 07:42:38 PM
I'm really crazy about bowhunting, but turkeys hunting is a shotgun hunt for me.  Deer, elk, etc. are bowhunting animals for me.  Not opposed to bowhunting turkeys, but I grew up hunting doves, ducks, and quail with a shotgun and I can't hunt those anymore, so turkeys are all I get to carry a shotgun for.  Unless something changes in the near future, I'd shoot the first 100 with a shotgun along with the next 100.

My views as well.  I love hunting deer with my bow, but with turkeys it is something that would be nice, but I really like to hammer them with my Queen Bee MB 835 throwing a Green Hornet load of 2 oz of TSS #8
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Bigsho69 on April 12, 2011, 08:39:40 PM
I would hunt first with a bow and then go to the gun if you are having some trouble getting them close enough.  If you kill one with your bow it will be hard for you to switch back to the old scatter gun.  LOL 
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Trip on April 12, 2011, 08:47:55 PM
I would kill the first two with a gun and then focus on a bow kill!
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: fallhnt on April 12, 2011, 08:53:57 PM
I would killem' with a bow.
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: TRKYHTR on April 12, 2011, 08:55:35 PM
Kill them all with a gun. Thats alot of turkey killin. You must be practicing.lol

TRKYHTR
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: sugarray on April 12, 2011, 08:59:20 PM
Quote from: TRKYHTR on April 12, 2011, 08:55:35 PM
Kill them all with a gun. Thats alot of turkey killin. You must be practicing.lol

TRKYHTR

This will likely be the way I go.  I have a couple more days to decide.
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Shotgun on April 12, 2011, 09:01:13 PM
If I read this right you can get 4 tags.  All 4 would be killed by a gun. 
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Hognutz on April 12, 2011, 09:25:27 PM
Bring four shells and kill them all with the gun.  :you_rock:
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: gatrapper on April 12, 2011, 09:38:57 PM
I love the smell of gun powder :z-guntootsmiley:
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: hookedspur on April 12, 2011, 09:40:24 PM
Quote from: cannonball on April 12, 2011, 07:31:35 PM
2 with a gun, then switch to bow. :icon_thumright:
:agreed: :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: longbeardlife.com on April 12, 2011, 09:55:17 PM
if your blind hunting take both and then you are covered... if no blind start with the shotgun then go to bow... either way good luck..
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: turkey slayer on April 12, 2011, 10:47:42 PM
Quote from: TRKYHTR on April 12, 2011, 08:55:35 PM
Kill them all with a gun. Thats alot of turkey killin. You must be practicing.lol

TRKYHTR
:agreed: gun all the way!
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Flydown on April 12, 2011, 10:54:05 PM
KABOOM
KABOOM
KABOOM
KABOOM
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: bowhunter84 on April 13, 2011, 08:49:04 AM
it all depends on how many days i'm hunting and how the turkeys are acting.
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: LX_Trkyhntr on April 13, 2011, 09:43:09 AM
Quote from: cannonball on April 12, 2011, 07:31:35 PM
2 with a gun, then switch to bow. :icon_thumright:
:icon_thumright: :icon_thumright: :icon_thumright:
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: CSAW on April 13, 2011, 09:47:02 AM
Mow em down with the gun!  They move a lot and runnin and bowin could get very challenging. 
Title: Re: How would you kill your Merriams
Post by: Muskie03 on April 13, 2011, 09:49:39 AM
 Bring the bow along, you never know what might inspire you.