Feet or Neck

[bear hunter]

Had a friend who picked one up by the feet it drove the spur between his middle and index finger so deep he had to go to emergency room.

[BB30]

I was always told it was a northern thing to grab them by the head ha ha. Funny how you hear different stories in different parts of the country.

I just sit there until they are done flopping and let the woods settle down before grabbing them by the feet unless of course it has turned into a 3 ring circus of me chasing a wounded turkey through the woods which has as I hate to admit it happened once or twice.

I always have imagined what some innocent bystander would think if they saw me on one of those rare occasions chasing after a turkey through the woods.

I have had two that I've had to chase and both shots were inside 35 yds.

[MK M GOBL]

I'm a leg man!

They're dead when I grab them


MK M GOBL

[Brwndg]

If still flopping I stood on the neck and once confident they are dead I leaned down, checked out all the colors of the head and how pretty it is and then picked him up by the legs. I have to agree, picking them up by the head does seem somehow disrespectful.

Agree 100%. I step on the neck and hold em down w my knee of my other leg on their body.  They don't last that long I cannot wait to pick 'em up.

[Sir-diealot]

If still flopping I stood on the neck and once confident they are dead I leaned down, checked out all the colors of the head and how pretty it is and then picked him up by the legs. I have to agree, picking them up by the head does seem somehow disrespectful.

Agree 100%. I step on the neck and hold em down w my knee of my other leg on their body.  They don't last that long I cannot wait to pick 'em up.

Me kneeling on a turkey would not be good, he would end up looking like a flapjack!

[RutnNStrutn]

I have friend who told me many years ago " You have not won the game until you are standing on his neck"! When he stops flopping I pick him up by his feet.  I have not ever been spurred or had my legs beat up from flopping wings.  I want to keep it that way.  HA!

I had a couple of gobblers that I would have mounted but they flopped out too many feathers. Nowadays I go to the bird as fast as safely possible and pick him up by the legs. I've been spurred a few times, not many, but I haven't had any floppage ruining a potential mount either.

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