Last day?

[Spellnj3]

We had our last saturday for the season end yesterday...our season ends this friday.  I have a permit for saturdays and also a permit for the last week ( NJ season is broken up by weeks...we have to buy a permit for every week we hunt.
This past saturday we had 7 jakes come into our setup....we passed on the shot but my question to everyone is... What would you do....Tag soup or jake soup??

[stinkpickle]

I'd probably let 'em walk 3 out of 4 times...but if my trigger finger gets itchy, a jake will get shot.   

[njdevilsb]

It may just depend on the day for me and how the rest of the season has gone.  I have stopped shooting jakes on opening day, that's a fact.  The last day, all bets may be off.

[TnHunter]

I have not shot many jakes over the years but this year on the last day I pulled the triger on one.   

[TrackeySauresRex]

I'm faced with this situation right now. It's been a long hard season. I've been sourounded by Jake's and hung up birds. This is the first season in a long while where I haven't harvested a decent bird. With only a few hunts left, I voted.    TAG SOUP!  But...That could change 

Signed
The Humble Turkey Hunter
TrackeySauresRex

[Jay]

I have given all my Turkey meat away, while I was on the road 2 years in a row, and I need a Jake fan. This year a Jake goes down, if that scenario comes up in my last 3 days in Kansas.

[mnturkey]

Jakes taste the same as a big gobbler.
I might not on the first day if the season

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

I don't get skunked and have no anticipation of ever getting skunked(adapt, overcome: kill).  But a jake is not an option to me on the first day of the season and consequently, in my mind should not be on the last.

I have a tremendous respect for those hunters who have standards and adhere to them.  Essentially, I think that if you go into the woods on the first day of the season hoping to kill a jake and you don't get that opportunity until the last day then that's respectable.  That being said, I don't believe a bird, nor a buck should be shot as a compromise on the last day in the event that he would not have been harvested on the first.

JMHO