People are leaving out the biological difference between the spike and the jake. There's a high probability of that spike living to see another year, so it's easy to make an argument for not shooting. A jake has about a 50/50 chance of living until next year due to the natural mortality of turkeys, mainly due to predators. For that reason, no one should make too big a deal of shooting jakes. A lot of them are bound to die one way or another. If you want to shoot him, go ahead.


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