Where will the line be drawn?

[eggshell]

Silvestris,

I really should have known better than be honest on here. Yes I crippled a bird, no I'm not proud of it, but I imagine it's happened to most of us who have hunted a long time. This will only be my 46th season turkey hunting so I'm still a little green and make mistakes. I still don't blame the shell and I'll probably hunt with the junk again this year. To call me "The Cripple Family" is a bit presumptuous since you know nothing about me or my hunting skills and ethics. However, I know it's the internet and I shouldn't be surprised. I have seen a lot of your post and I think your most likely a very good turkey hunter and I apologize that my honesty upset you. I wish I could say I never crippled a turkey, but that just would not be true. If you'll take my word for it I assure you it is the exception and not the norm.

[MK M GOBL]

Silvestris,

I really should have known better than be honest on here. Yes I crippled a bird, no I'm not proud of it, but I imagine it's happened to most of us who have hunted a long time. This will only be my 46th season turkey hunting so I'm still a little green and make mistakes. I still don't blame the shell and I'll probably hunt with the junk again this year. To call me "The Cripple Family" is a bit presumptuous since you know nothing about me or my hunting skills and ethics. However, I know it's the internet and I shouldn't be surprised. I have seen a lot of your post and I think your most likely a very good turkey hunter and I apologize that my honesty upset you. I wish I could say I never crippled a turkey, but that just would not be true. If you'll take my word for it I assure you it is the exception and not the norm.

Good to hear some TRUTH, happens to all of us if you play this game long enough. You can mark me down too...

MK M GOBL

[mtns2hunt]

Silvestris,

I really should have known better than be honest on here. Yes I crippled a bird, no I'm not proud of it, but I imagine it's happened to most of us who have hunted a long time. This will only be my 46th season turkey hunting so I'm still a little green and make mistakes. I still don't blame the shell and I'll probably hunt with the junk again this year. To call me "The Cripple Family" is a bit presumptuous since you know nothing about me or my hunting skills and ethics. However, I know it's the internet and I shouldn't be surprised. I have seen a lot of your post and I think your most likely a very good turkey hunter and I apologize that my honesty upset you. I wish I could say I never crippled a turkey, but that just would not be true. If you'll take my word for it I assure you it is the exception and not the norm.

Nothing wrong with being honest: you learned and hopefully many of us learned from your experience. Sniping is uncalled for and counter productive.

[Happy]

I think the thing to remember is none of us is perfect. However if by being honest it helps prevent someone else from making the same mistake then it's a good thing. I have never met anyone that as hunted a lot and hasn't screwed up.

[BottomLand54]

I've heard Bow hunters say they have never lost a deer, I say you ain't Bow hunted long enough! lost a rough 140-145 class deer shot at 16.5 yards in 2014. I still replay it in my mind year after year. I was hurt it would have been my biggest buck with a bow. Any sportsman doesn't go to the woods to say today ima cripple the animal I spend so much time and money pursuing!

We all have missed, we all have misjudged, and at some point we all have injured an animal we never anticipated to cripple. Hunt long enough and be honest we all have those stories that hurt us. It breaks my heart to ever injure one of God's animals he put here for us men, women, and children to hunt!

I think advertising the 70 yard tss shots to me is crazy, but to me hunting turkeys with a rifle sounds crazy. At the end of the day it's just in how we all handle the information we receive.


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[zeke632]

I believe that the vast majority of guys shooting TSS are doing so in order to shoot what gives them the best chance to kill a turkey...not to extend how far they shoot.  Or maybe to lighten they weight of the guns they tote through the woods. 

Something that I don't agree with 100% with is the idea that we are all in the same boat and shouldn't judge how others choose to hunt. Steve Renilla once said "If we are all in the same boat and someone is shooting holes in the bottom of the boat shouldn't we throw him overboard?"
  And just because something is legal doesn't always make it right. It's legal to screw your buddy's wife, doesn't make it right.

Just my opinion.