how many have you shot?

[4nolz2]

turkey hunters are uber-secretive,especially the successful ones.How many have you killed? Anonymous poll.

[guesswho]

Killed my first turkey in 1965, first longbeard in 1968, and killed my last one last year.  So thats three. 

[njdevilsb]

I've killed around 15 or so.  I've been hunting them since I was 12, that's 12 years.  Early on my dad and I were lucky to get 1 per year between the 2 of us.  Now we are doing pretty well, usually filling our 4 tags total.  There's not much that is more rewarding than slinging one over your shoulder, but we sure learned a lot during the years that we struggled.

[TauntoHawk]

7 in my three years of turkey hunting

[wisconsinteacher]

I have been turkey hunting a 14 years.  The first 5-7 years, I never pulled the trigger.  We did not have a lot of birds and I had no clue what I was doing hunint in the hardwoods and cut overs.  Then the birds moved to the farm country around my home town and I have shot 9 in the last 7 years and called in a few for others.  So the first years were bad, then I learned a few tricks and grew up which has led to more birds riding home with me.

[harvester]

I am very close to 30 longbeards, not counting a few jakes along the way when I got started turkey hunting. 

[Crutch]

11 turkeys in 2 years.

[OLE RASPY]

not enough

[jv]

I really can't say....i have been hunting these turkey birds for about 40 years and let me add that i have been made to look like a fool  many  a time...now that being said at one time i had  about 42 beards in my collection but lost them to a house fire a few years back with most of all my hunting stuff....we here in Ms. can kill three gobblers a year and many years i would get my limit and some just one or two, but last year i didn't even raise my gun to shoot. But also  let me say that it's not always the kill that counts.  

[Sherrell]

Just one.

[R AJ]

I have been very blessed since I was 14 to have been in good turkey hunting areas. I didn't start out like gangbusters and have dwindled somewhat in the last few years. My problem is that I spend lots of my kill time taking others out and calling for them. If not for this I would definitely be in the 150 plus column by now. If I do half right this spring I should get close to my 5 bird limit . We shall soon see.

[chatterbox]

Enough to know I get the fever to go kill them again every spring!

[doublelung]

For the first 7 yrs I didn't pull the trigger either. Then a buddy took me out... that year I got 2 birds about 10 yards apart and 3 weeks apart, both 24 lbers. Total 9 birds, 2 being Jakes,( of which 1 was 20 lbs.)----Biggest to date is 28lbs. w/ a 13 1/4" beard. Taken in N.E. Iowa. Think I'm gonna head back there this year..

[reynolds243]

to be honest i am not sure but somewhere in the 25-50 range.  IMO its not the number of kills vs the memories for each.  I would take 1 awsome hunt with my best hunting buddy vs 20 killed by myself.

[turkey slayer]

not enough