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I really enjoyed the video, I thoroughly enjoy seeing antique weapons put to use.Thank you for posting the link.

I don't know why I'm wading in on this, but speaking of shooting turkeys, I saw a hunting show recently where a gal was bowhunting turkeys, and she was using a mating hen decoy that lies flat on the ground. This old tom came up and straddled the decoy and started enjoying his bit of strange plastic turkey tail, and then Wham! came the arrow. I know I know, nothing wrong with that, etc., but man, that one made me wince...

Debating punt gun ethics or whether it is a sport is no different than other hunting ethics debates, and whether or not a dead bird/game animal is really just a dead bird/game animal. Local traditions and history notwithstanding, it's all about whether or not the end justifies the means, which seems to have always been a slippery slope for us to grapple with collectively, indeed.

Mark, if you have to go, that doesn't sound like such a bad way to go. Right in the middle of a little strange. Happy as a clam until the last second. LOL

This fella I know killed a gobbler this spring with an osage bow, rivercane arrow tipped with an antler point and fletched with turkey feathers secured with sinew and hide glue, sinew bow string, etc. He neck shot the bird. It's a lot easier to kill a turkey out of a pop-up tent blind with a mechanical bow. Thad makes everything he wears and hunts with using primitive methods--stone tools. His clothing is brain tanned buckskin. The thread rambles, but it is worth reading if you have interest in turkey hunting, primitive tools, etc. Hat's off to this man!
http://forum.gon.com/showthread.php?t=689040

I suppose so! The funny thing is, I noticed it was a woman shooting the male turkey while he was enjoying his bit of turkey nirvana. A bit passive aggressive perhaps? Lol.

Gil, that's cool about the traditional hunter you mentioned. I've hunted with a longbow, and it's really difficult. My hat's off to anyone that can do that successfully, much less neck shoot a turkey with a handmade stick bow and arrows! Good grief.