Another What Would You Do?

[HogBiologist]

With the limited time I actually get to be in the woods to hunt, BOOM!!!!!!

[Arkansawyer]

I work with a lot of guys from GA, and one is still a member of a hunting club in south GA.  We made an early trip down there year before last.  I would not have shot 2 birds on that trip, being a guest like that.  
Otherwise...  Early season DIY hunts down in the dirty, dirty south like that are tough!  The ones I've done have been short whirlwind affairs anyway.  I'd take the chance if I was lucky enough to get it.  You earn a lot of birds you dont kill and you kill a lot of birds you dont earn.  It all comes out in the wash.

[drenalinld]

I have passed on at least ten opportunities to kill multiple long beards with one shot. I have killed two with one shot purposefully once and regretted it. I have passed on single birds just to get the chance to hunt again. For me it's more about the hunt than the kill.

[The Cohutta Strutter]

I don't think I can answer this honest without first being in that position. I would like to think I would just take a single gobbler in that opening day situation. I know what would be more rewarding for me is to take 3 gobblers on 3 completely different hunts spaced  through out the spring season which would give time to smell the roses along the way, so to speak. Seems like the older I get it ain't so much about the actual harvest but more so about the individual hunt experiences and simply just the time spent out in the woods hunting them. Closing day and having not harvested any birds and being within the legal limit I would have no problem letting the shot fly if I thought I could make clean kills. Seems to me that would be a farily low percentage shot to take em all down cleanly. Possible yes, but risky. Nothing deserves a slow death. The Cohutta Strutter.....

[barry]

If I was a non-resident hunter with limited time then probably yes.
If it was my home state not likely

[renegade19]

Absolutely, IF I was  100% sure of 3 DEAD birds. 

[Gus_13]

Absolutely, IF I was  100% sure of 3 DEAD birds. 

X2

BOOM

[GobbleNut]

Ronnie, you really like to tease people with these little scenarios.  

I have passed on many opportunities to kill multiple birds with one shot, and have on numerous occasions chosen not to shoot at a gobbler because I was afraid I would kill more than one, even when I could legally do it.  

In fact, the last time that occurred was this last spring with two Oklahoma Rios.  In that case, I could have killed both of those birds and still kept hunting by crossing a nearby creek and being in another county.  As it was, they walked away, heads always aligned, and I passed on shooting them both, even though I easily could have.

As others have stated, for me turkey hunting is not about a body count anymore.  

However, in all honesty, on the last day of an out-of-state hunt where I really wanted to kill a gobbler and it would be my last opportunity to take one, I would be lying to say that I know for sure I would not shoot in a situation where I could legally kill multiple birds.  I don't think I would ever shoot in an instance of having the possibility of killing three birds.  Two?  I'm not so sure.

I hope I am never put in the position of having to make that last-second choice.  I have had a one-gobbler-at-a-time rule my whole life.  I haven't broken it yet.  I would hate to break that rule after so many years.

[stinkpickle]

I would check their spurs, first.   

[surehuntsalot]

can we say "bang"
yes I would