Ocellated?

[guesswho]

Biologists and turkey experts say an Occelated "turkey" is a turkey.  I'm just curious as to what most turkey hunters think.   When you think of turkey hunting does shooting a Peacock looking bird off it's roost ever cross your mind.  Is it something you hope to do one day if you haven't already?

[sugarray]

I hunt turkeys to hear gobbling.  If it's not going to gobble, then I don't think I'll ever hunt one.  Let alone shoot it off its roost.

[guesswho]

I admit the body is shaped like a turkey.   Take the warts off it's head, re-color the head, re-feather it with an Easterns feathers, add a beard, shorten the spurs, an add a gobble you might convince me to go hunt one.  But until then I think I'll pass.

[drenalinld]

They have a vocabulary that can learned. I believe Dr Lovett has called them up strutting.

[OLE RASPY]

Im going to hunt them in the near future.

[VaTuRkStOmPeR]

I believe more progressive tactics for hunting them are being developed.  Hopefully roost shooting will become obsolete.

That being said, I want to kill too many big game species and too many of the 4 sub us turkey subspecies to spend that kind of money chasing a spurred peacock.

[redarrow]

Yes I do,but I think they look more like something that would happen after Liberace had sex with a guinea hen.

[njdevilsb]

I admit the body is shaped like a turkey.   Take the warts off it's head, re-color the head, re-feather it with an Easterns feathers, add a beard, shorten the spurs, an add a gobble you might convince me to go hunt one.  But until then I think I'll pass.

That's all?    

My thoughts exactly.

I can't ever see myself wanting to hunt them.  Once I get my Grand Slam, I think I'll be happy.

[drenalinld]

You ain't right, Red. Lol

[ddturkeyhunter]

I would like to some day but don't know if I could ever afford to, maybe if I win the lottery, I guess I better start playing but I am to cheep to. I will just have to dream about it that doesn't cost anything.

[Shotgun]

Not on my hit list any time in the near futer, but im not saying if my work has me in mexico during season I wont kill 1 or 5.

[woodchip]

I'd love to hunt one, but doubt if I'll ever get to.  I'd pick a goulds hunt over the ocellated.

[GSLAM95]

Ocellated turkey hunting has come a long way.  I bow hunted the Ocellated in 2009 and not one bird from any hunter in camp was shot out of a tree.  I killed 3 Tom's by setting up in their travel corridors to and from the feeding areas.  The first bird I shot was whistled in by my guide Mito as the small flock started to skirt our set up, my first outing proved to me they can be called!
The area I was in had agricultural fields surrounded by dense jungle. 
The birds have a different vocabulary and to see a Tom perform a hatchet chopping action with their wing while dancing in a circle strutting around his ladies is a spectacle unlike what we are used to seeing.
I once thought like a lot of the comments I have read in this thread and told myself it was not for me as I was satisfied in hunting only the subspecies that gobbled.  Years later I bit the bullet, saved up and went and must say it was an awesome hunt, much different than I expected and in a very historical part of the world that everyone should experience at least once in their lifetime.  There is a lot of different wildlife in the Yucatan and the Ocellated turkey was one that was very abundant where I visited.     

[RutnNStrutn]

I'd pick a goulds hunt over the ocellated.

While they have changed up the way to hunt occelateds, and respectable guides and hunters don't roost shoot them anymore, I still have absolutely no interest in an occelated. I've got my Slam, wanna get more, and one day up it to the Royal Slam with a Goulds hunt.

[runngun]

You dadgum right I would hunt them. Maybe one day.