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Started by BINK McCARTY, June 18, 2016, 08:33:22 PM
Quote from: greentag on August 20, 2016, 06:31:31 PMif you like to eat the turkey you shoot like i do,then shooting them in the wing or the beard at 15 or 20 yards with long beards would destroy every bit of the meat you tried so hard to get.i couldnt imigine shooting one like that,i never even shoot one in full strut.its way to easy to cluck and get them to stick their head up and shoot them with a good shell you are confident in and have patterned your gun with.but to each their own,if you are thinking of doing this i think you should shoot some win long beards and see just how tight they are,out of my gun the hole they make at 15 and 20 yards look like you have shot a large sabbot about the size of a dip can,and thats with every choke i have tried.i may be like a dinosour,but i still shoot the old winchester supremes,they shoot a perfect killing pattern at any range out to 40 for me,i tried the longbeards one season and i think they are great for competition shooting,but for hunting its hard to beat the old supremes especially from 20 to 30 yards where the majority of turkeys are shot.So body shooting a turkey and messing up some meat is wrong. Where do you shoot deer? I hope you shoot them in the head because anywhere else is going to waste some meat. I hunt to kill. Sure I love the experience, the challenge, and the time in the woods. But when it all comes down to it, I'm out there trying to kill an animal. I will happily take any shot that I feel will kill the animal quickly. That's what I'm there for. If you're not out to kill, then why carry a gun? Cameras are lighter.
Quote from: BandedSpur on August 22, 2016, 08:37:01 AM"So body shooting a turkey and messing up some meat is wrong. Where do you shoot deer? I hope you shoot them in the head because anywhere else is going to waste some meat. I hunt to kill. Sure I love the experience, the challenge, and the time in the woods. But when it all comes down to it, I'm out there trying to kill an animal. I will happily take any shot that I feel will kill the animal quickly. That's what I'm there for. If you're not out to kill, then why carry a gun? Cameras are lighter."I know this is a thread about LBs being "too tight", but couldn't let the body shooting of turkeys pass without comment. I would never intentionally body shoot an unwounded turkey. The argument about body shooting deer is not applicable. Yes, I shoot deer in the body, a single projectile through the lungs that destroys zero meat that I intend to eat (I do not eat the ribs). Body shooting a turkey at 20 yds with LBs would destroy the vast majority of the usable meat - an unacceptable outcome to me. With regards to LBs being "too tight", they are just optimized for different distances than conventional turkey loads. While most conventional loads are optimized for 20-40 yd shots, LBs are optimized for 30-50 yd shots. The 50 yd patterns I have seen are beautiful, dense, even patterns. I will concede the need to alter ones hold with LBs on close in birds - that would mean waddles as opposed to the head. But never the body.
Quote from: 1iagobblergetter on August 23, 2016, 01:23:32 PMIn my opinion deliberately body shooting a turkey may be legal,but is unethical and nothing more than publicized wanton waste.
Quote from: Farmboy27 on August 24, 2016, 06:11:51 PMSo do you guys eat all the groundhogs, coyotes, crows, and coons you shoot? They are all made of meat ya know!