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Started by zelmo1, March 10, 2024, 08:36:22 PM
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March 10, 2024, 08:36:22 PM
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: 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
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March 10, 2024, 09:01:46 PM
I plan on eating the turkey sooo........the coyote? Not so much.
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March 10, 2024, 09:04:02 PM
Probably shot the gobbler , but the yote gets it to if he hangs around .
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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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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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March 10, 2024, 09:18:19 PM
Coyote, as i've had fewer opportunities to shoot one!
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March 10, 2024, 09:21:34 PM
Turkey, without a doubt.
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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
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March 10, 2024, 09:32:04 PM
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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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March 10, 2024, 10:34:04 PM
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March 10, 2024, 11:41:33 PM
Both!
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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
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March 11, 2024, 04:22:22 AM
For sure.
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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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