Missouri Turkeys Won

[Rzrbac]

Got the Benelli all cleaned and put away till next spring. Time to start flinging arrows!

[dublelung]

Ya , way to go young man you sure showed him.
65 yards away, come on now 

Showed his buddy a few years ago at 58 yards. Knocked him flat. I didn't expect to kill that turkey either.

Why would you even shoot at a turkey you don't expect to kill? This is at least the 2nd post I've read about you "taking a poke" at long range.You may as well go find a nest and stomp the eggs.

[TauntoHawk]

I can't tell someone else how to hunt but if you take shots you don't expect to land.. don't expect us to want to hear about them

[TheSportsman]

It's a shame.... Hope bird is OK. Makes me sick when I hear of these folks taking pop shots over 45yd-50yd. I've heard it time and time again. "Well he wasn't coming any closer, had to do something...." How about let him go and hunt him another day?

[HookedonHooks]

I'm sure the bird is fine.... At that range the only pellets that penetrate are the ones that count. And it only takes one to count. I guess I didn't make a single one count. I'll be completely honest in that I probably shouldn't have shot, but you can't carry a bird out if you don't pull the trigger. It was my final minutes of the season, and I know fully well that's a possible shot, just not necessarily the most consistent or confident one. Flame me all ya want, but I enjoyed my season bird or not. Yesterday morning was one of my best hunts this season, and managing to kill that bird would've just been the icing on the cake. Tagged out in KS, MO kicked my butt, but now I'll be on the way to NE.

[SinGin]

65 yard shot? Sounds like our Mo turkeys lost. I'll callNE and let them know your coming

[HookedonHooks]

65 yard shot? Sounds like our Mo turkeys lost. I'll callNE and let them know your coming

Nothing about those turkeys were "ours" it was on private land that I guarantee you'll never have access too. So go ahead and complain about injuring birds and hurting populations of birds you'll never see. I know for a fact the bird I shot at 55 earlier in the season was a miss, I felt myself being high after the trigger squeeze, and yesterday's bird was just out of range I guess. When the birds on this property have done nothing but stay long even in the perfect set ups, you eventually have to take a poke at them. As I I said it may not be the most confident shot but one that I know the gun can make, the right choke, the right loads, and a little bit of luck it's a dead turkey at 65 every time.... It's not like I'm shooting TSS 100 yard shots people are actually connecting on nowadays, but to each their own. Will stand by my statement  that you can't carry a bird out of you don't atleast try. But will also stand by my other statement in that I maybe....  PROBABLY... shouldn't have shot, but most turkey hunters would be lying if they told you they've NEVER poked at a bird over 50. In the heat of the moment, especially on a bird that's about to bust, it's a reaction and an instaneous decision to make whether or not your going to pull the trigger. I've definitely watched birds scream outta there at similar distances and watched them go one there way thinking I'll get them tomorrow. Well on the last day of season there is no tomorrow, you gotta make it count. I tried, I lost. I accept defeat, hold a little remorse at the very slim possibility of injury, but sleep easy at night knowing I'll get to meet him next year. I've literally dropped a bird cold at 15 steps, when I stood up to go get him I never pumped the slide on my shotgun and I watched him fly away. The next season we killed a tom with a few old pellets in him and small amounts of tainted meat that had been that way for quite awhile, so without a shadow of a doubt know the bird from yesterday sure had the heck scared out of him, but he was probably breeding an ol girl this morning. Good luck with your season, and if you're one to criticize a long distance shot, you yourself have better never taken one outside of 40, just to ensure full ethical responsibility.

[SinGin]

2 things, first off paraghraps when you type that long winded, and 2nd if your taking shots that long I NEVER want to be anywhere near where you hunt.

[BowBendr]

I thought we weren't supposed to be posting about long shots of 40+ yds on OG ??
We lock threads about tss but this crap is free for posting....wth ?


Gods of Thunder

[idratherb]

 

[dublelung]

I thought we weren't supposed to be posting about long shots of 40+ yds on OG ??
We lock threads about tss but this crap is free for posting....wth ?


Gods of Thunder

He didn't shoot long distance, he simply "took a poke at it". Obviously doesn't see anything wrong with it either. Maybe he'll grow it of it as he matures.

[Turkey1986]

It's a shame.... Hope bird is OK. Makes me sick when I hear of these folks taking pop shots over 45yd-50yd. I've heard it time and time again. "Well he wasn't coming any closer, had to do something...." How about let him go and hunt him another day?

Agreed.

[Dtrkyman]

Go home and pattern your gun at that distance...I'm guessing after you won't waste the shell on another shot that long...but you probably have one of those magic guns that out shoots everything in the world...even physics!!!


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[beakbuster10]

I thought this thread was a joke after the initial post but apparently it isn't.


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[SKFOOTER]

I managed to tag out here in MO on Friday of the second week with a rainy day bird that I located gobbling at the thunder. Otherwise, I would have never gotten out of the Jeep! I just checked the telecheck numbers, 39,215 birds tagged during the regular season.

43,342 for the youth and regular season combined.