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Just a Hypothetical

Started by zelmo1, March 10, 2024, 08:36:22 PM

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March 10, 2024, 08:36:22 PM Last Edit: March 11, 2024, 06:09:17 AM by zelmo1
You have worked a bird that is on your hitlist into range, just waiting for a good shot. Then you see a coyote sneaking in. The coyote is 35 yards and the Tom is at 25, opposite directions. Which do you shoot? Just stretching my brain, lol. Z

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         I shoot the gobbler first and try a follow up on the yote. Z

Paulmyr

#1
March 10, 2024, 09:01:46 PM
I plan on eating the turkey sooo........the coyote? Not so much.
Paul Myrdahl,  Goat trainee

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Howie g

#2
March 10, 2024, 09:04:02 PM
Probably shot the gobbler , but the yote gets it to if he hangs around .

Sir-diealot

#3
March 10, 2024, 09:10:34 PM
If I had been hunting the turkey pretty much exclusively and the coyote came in I would take the turkey. That said Coyote aren't in season and I lost being able to hunt for to many years because of my last car accident and am not going to lose it again to shoot a coyote out of season.
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WV Ridge Reaper

#4
March 10, 2024, 09:14:44 PM
They don't call me wild bill fur nothing

Personal experience that has happened..i don't believe coyotes hurt the turkeys as much as everyone thinks..And ill leave it at that


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squidd

#5
March 10, 2024, 09:18:19 PM
Coyote, as i've had fewer opportunities to shoot one!

mcw3734

#6
March 10, 2024, 09:21:34 PM
Turkey, without a doubt.

Greg Massey

#7
March 10, 2024, 09:22:20 PM
If it's a hit list gobbler and i had been hunting him for a long time, I'll shoot the gobbler... But i hope in the future the coyote gets run over or hit by a train... trap

Gooserbat

#8
March 10, 2024, 09:32:04 PM
Turkey
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One of my personal current interests is nest predators and how a majority of hunters, where legal bait to the extent of chumming coons.  However once they get the predators concentrated they don't control them.

Big Jeremy

#9
March 10, 2024, 09:36:04 PM
I thought the hypothetical part was a "hit list" turkey...

I'm shooting the turkey every time. But the similar situations I've had have ended up with both getting away. Dog bumps bird, both flee unscathed.


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crow

#10
March 10, 2024, 10:34:04 PM
Gobbler

Dtrkyman

#11
March 10, 2024, 11:41:33 PM
Both!


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Sixes

#12
March 10, 2024, 11:48:27 PM
100 percent, I'm shooting the turkey.


But, I have shot coyotes that came in while working a bird on a couple of occasions. I had one bird fired gobbling on the roost and lightly calling to him when a yote came in to investigate. I killed the coyote and the bird went silent.

Still worth killing it.

I've also shot hogs on turkey hunts

joey46

#13
March 11, 2024, 04:22:22 AM
 For sure. :turkey2:

Dr Juice

#14
March 11, 2024, 04:27:36 AM
Gobbler first and then the Coyote if he remains in shooting distance to experience the same fate.
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