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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/12/18 08:12 AM
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I’d believe someone killed that many shooting them over bait but not actually hunting them. he didn't hunt over bait and I promise ya he killed 15-+ EVERY season. Killing 3-4 in one morning was common. Kill one hang it, go to the next bird ya heard, kill it, hang it, repeat.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/12/18 08:35 AM
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I’d believe someone killed that many shooting them over bait but not actually hunting them. he didn't hunt over bait and I promise ya he killed 15-+ EVERY season. Killing 3-4 in one morning was common. Kill one hang it, go to the next bird ya heard, kill it, hang it, repeat. And if 3 gobblers come in together they kill all 3 of them. There used to be extended families in my area who all killed double digits every season. I don't get to talk with them much these days, but I doubt they have slowed down.
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/12/18 11:07 AM
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he's prolly still wandering around lost as all hell..... That is guaranteed!!! He is looking for his keys, car or phone right now.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/15/18 08:37 AM
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Pcp you probably know some people I grew up hunting around from alex city. I know of several that kill 15-30 a year. I stopped to talk to a friend several years ago maybe 2 weeks into season. We were talking and another guy I knew showed up and asked him if he wanted a turkey. He grabbed it out cut the beard off and left the spurs just a normal 2yr old. I asked my buddy after he left if he just didn’t eat turkeys or what. He said yes he did but was probably already up to 8-10 birds for the season. Said he called up 4 opening morning and killed 3 with one shot and the fourth before he got away.
Would walk over a naked woman to get to a gobblin turkey!
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/17/18 11:27 PM
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I’d believe someone killed that many shooting them over bait but not actually hunting them. Nah man we talking about turkey killers here. No bait just hear a turkey gobble and they kill em. Not necessarily on their property but close most of the time. I have known the one I know for 20 years and I have never known him to kill fewer than 10 in alabama. Now days if I talk to him I just say can I still hunt or have you killed my limit already. Most of the time he laughs and says you still got 1 or two of your limit left but you may want to hunt tomorrow. One time he told me he would not kill 4 at a time anymore cause it was so much work to carry out and after he loaded number 3 he went back for number 4 and it was gone. He tracked it down and re killed it.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/27/18 11:15 AM
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Hunters (My BIL) that use climbers without a harness.
Isaiah 5:20 Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/29/18 08:51 PM
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I took my 13 year old nephew turkey hunting. Long morning of messing with henned up gobblers. I had been saving a gobbler at another location for either my son or my nephew. So we take off and set up decoys. I called a couple of times just for fun but knew this bird would see the strutter decoy and come in. You could almost set your watch. He would hit the pasture around 10:30. So I just laid down and was going to take a nap. Figured the shot would wake me up. Haha. I hear the decoy being mauled and looked up just in time to see that my nephew was not paying attention as the gobbler runs into the woods. He said “Quick Uncle Wade, call him back so I can shoot, he was a big one”. I quickly told him that we could call until dark and he wouldn’t be back. But, he was right on being a big one. He had 1 1/4” spurs. Couldn’t get either kid back to that spot before the end of season so I sacrificed helped them out.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/30/18 05:57 AM
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I’d believe someone killed that many shooting them over bait but not actually hunting them. he didn't hunt over bait and I promise ya he killed 15-+ EVERY season. Killing 3-4 in one morning was common. Kill one hang it, go to the next bird ya heard, kill it, hang it, repeat. That used to be possible. Until every swinging dick in the state got a pocketful of mouth calls and an owl hooter, then started riding the roads and tromping through the woods. Back in the 80s you could hear 6, 8, 10 gobblers at daybreak. Get on one, go eat breakfast, get on another one.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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06/30/18 09:06 AM
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Get all jealous about the pinhoti project. Haha... man I'm glad I'm not the only one
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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07/04/18 07:52 PM
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I can’t tell you how many times I’ve bern in the woods, turkey hunting, with a shotgun in my hands, and had a gobbler fly over my head and I just stood and watched. Always made me feel very, very stupid.
“Killing tomorrow’s trophies today.”
On the distance I like to walk to my stands: “The first 100 yards is also the last 100 yards.”
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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07/10/18 08:29 PM
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I’d believe someone killed that many shooting them over bait but not actually hunting them. he didn't hunt over bait and I promise ya he killed 15-+ EVERY season. Killing 3-4 in one morning was common. Kill one hang it, go to the next bird ya heard, kill it, hang it, repeat. "If" someone could do that, I have no problem with it. It's not like the turkey population is in any trouble there.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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07/29/18 09:54 AM
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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08/01/18 11:12 AM
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Took a buddy of mine turkey hunting outside of Demopolis. He'd never turkey hunted before. It was a slow morning so about 9:30 we were running and gunning with me cutting hard about every 350 yards or so trying to make one gobble. I hear a faint gobble off of our property about 400 yards. With nothing else more promising, I start working him. I give it a few minutes and he gobbles again closer. I tell my buddy he's coming and get him set up about 25 yards ahead of me at the head of a little hardwood draw that I figure the turkey is working up. He's right handed so he can also shoot back to his left for about 50 yards on an open hardwood flat.
I dont want to call too much so I'm scratching in the leaves and occasionally purring and clucking on a slate. 45 min goes by and he hasnt gobbled. I want to find out exactly where he so I yelp really softly. He gobbles directly in front of my buddy just out of sight in the draw and I swear that he parted my buddies hair, he was so close. Half a second later, he pops out of the draw in full strut, 15 yds in front of my buddy. I wait, and I wait, and I wait. Still no shot. The turkey stands in front of him at 15 yards for about 2-3 minutes then starts working his way onto the open hardwood flat. I cluck at him and stop him 25yds from my buddy, still no shot. I repeat that 2 more times, still no shot. This bird has been in slingshot range now for 5 min and is now getting nervous. He can see everything around and cant see a hen so he starts cranning his neck looking around, and starts putting. The jig is up. I'm pinned down but I'm not letting this turkey walk out of there after messing with him for that long so ease my gun up and get on him and tell my friend in a normal voice, "shoot him". Turkey throws his big white head straight up, I wait a half second for the shot that i know is coming....Still no shot so I hammer him at 47 yards.
My buddy jumps up and says "that was so cool. Why did you shoot him?" I said because he was getting ready to get out of dodge. I asked him why didnt you shoot, we're you blocked by trees, gun malfunction, asleep, what happened? He said, "Oh no, I saw him and had it on him the whole time but on TV, they make them strut and and gobble a whole bunch more than that, before they actually shoot them." I gently explained to him that this is Alabama and these birds aren't unhunted and stupid like the ones you see on TV and if you have a gobbler in range in Alabama, you pull the trigger as soon as you have a clean shot.
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Re: dumbest things you have seen hunters do
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08/01/18 11:36 AM
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Took a buddy of mine turkey hunting outside of Demopolis. He'd never turkey hunted before. It was a slow morning so about 9:30 we were running and gunning with me cutting hard about every 350 yards or so trying to make one gobble. I hear a faint gobble off of our property about 400 yards. With nothing else more promising, I start working him. I give it a few minutes and he gobbles again closer. I tell my buddy he's coming and get him set up about 25 yards ahead of me at the head of a little hardwood draw that I figure the turkey is working up. He's right handed so he can also shoot back to his left for about 50 yards on an open hardwood flat.
I dont want to call too much so I'm scratching in the leaves and occasionally purring and clucking on a slate. 45 min goes by and he hasnt gobbled. I want to find out exactly where he so I yelp really softly. He gobbles directly in front of my buddy just out of sight in the draw and I swear that he parted my buddies hair, he was so close. Half a second later, he pops out of the draw in full strut, 15 yds in front of my buddy. I wait, and I wait, and I wait. Still no shot. The turkey stands in front of him at 15 yards for about 2-3 minutes then starts working his way onto the open hardwood flat. I cluck at him and stop him 25yds from my buddy, still no shot. I repeat that 2 more times, still no shot. This bird has been in slingshot range now for 5 min and is now getting nervous. He can see everything around and cant see a hen so he starts cranning his neck looking around, and starts putting. The jig is up. I'm pinned down but I'm not letting this turkey walk out of there after messing with him for that long so ease my gun up and get on him and tell my friend in a normal voice, "shoot him". Turkey throws his big white head straight up, I wait a half second for the shot that i know is coming....Still no shot so I hammer him at 47 yards.
My buddy jumps up and says "that was so cool. Why did you shoot him?" I said because he was getting ready to get out of dodge. I asked him why didnt you shoot, we're you blocked by trees, gun malfunction, asleep, what happened? He said, "Oh no, I saw him and had it on him the whole time but on TV, they make them strut and and gobble a whole bunch more than that, before they actually shoot them." I gently explained to him that this is Alabama and these birds aren't unhunted and stupid like the ones you see on TV and if you have a gobbler in range in Alabama, you pull the trigger as soon as you have a clean shot. Unreal. Anyone who goes out on their FIRST FREAKIN' HUNT and passes up a bird because it "didn't strut and gobble enough" need not ever be allowed in the woods during turkey season again. Lifetime banishment from Turkey Hunting. So let it be written, so let it be done.
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