Stupid question

[NEKVT]

Do you field dress before weighin of a turkey, like we do deer and moose or do you report them not yet field dressed?

[Spring_Woods]

Weigh them not field dressed.

[fsu33952]

I have hunted turkeys for about 35 years and have never heard of anyone field dressing a turkey before doing anything with them. They might some place but I have never heard of such. So I would say no, people do not field dress turkeys.

[NEKVT]

Thats what I figured, but I had to ask

[TauntoHawk]

no weights are as live weight

[renegade19]

no weights are as live weight

I always weigh mine dead.   

[redarrow]

no weights are as live weight

I always weigh mine dead.   

Dead weight then.

[TauntoHawk]

no weights are as live weight

I always weigh mine dead.   

Where's the fun in that? Really makes  you work for those spurs

[eaglea1]

Worse than tryin to keep the springer spaniel on the scale at the vet.

[renegade19]

no weights are as live weight

I always weigh mine dead.  

Where's the fun in that? Really makes  you work for those spurs

I used to work with a guy that got locked in hand to spur combat with one.  Ended up beating it to death with his bow.  

[fsu33952]

I used to work with a guy that got locked in hand to spur combat with one.  Ended up beating it to death with his bow.  

Hand to spur combat? I have been there. I had a gobbler come up on the other side of a hump of dirt at about 6 feet off the end of the barrel. I had the gun right on him when he walked out. I pulled the trigger and he went rolling and flopping and flapping into a tangle of muscadines and briars. I jumped up thinking I had shot him and went to trying to get my foot on his head. I immediately realized that I had missed him and that he was just tangled up. I was taking a beating and was able to get one hand on a wing and belly flop him in that brush pile. It took what seemed like forever to kill that turkey or so I thought. I strnagled him until he had began to slow down with his struggle. I then grabbed his feet and put my foot on his neck and stretched it out until he finally stopped flopping. If I had it to do over again, I think i would have let him walk off a little bit before i tried the shot. This was in the days before super full chokes and we always sat up trying to force them to be very close before they had an opporitunity to see you. That would backfire sometimes. You either never saw the turkey or you killed them lots of times.

[albrubacker]

A friend of mine shot one this spring took it to his cabin/shed and hung it by one leg. He then went back out to try and get one for his wife. When they came back in, they found his limping around the cabin.

[timberjack86]

Good storys