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I couldn't find a jake this morning, so I had to settle for this tough old bird instead.



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Nice bird indeed Brent. That old model '97 appears to have done the job it was designed for yet again...Geo

p.s.: Try marinating it a really long time.

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Geo,glad you were able to get through the season successfully. It would have been awful to have done the same on March 26. wink Go fish. And sleep. Gil

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Gil, I only wish I had carried my .410 and some of your "fairy dust" reloads one more day. I still have them for next Spring though...Geo

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Originally Posted By: BrentD
I couldn't find a jake this morning, so I had to settle for this tough old bird instead.



Nice job. Proper bird, proper gun. True sportsman.
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There's a beautiful Tom strutting across the road from my house right now. He's about 150 yards away.
I wish I could get excited about shooting him.
We can shoot one in spring, one in fall.
I shoot one every 5 years or so.
Hardly seems worth it. They live in the trees across the road, eat the waste grain in the field, and wander up to my feeder in the winter.

Like trout fishing, the bug never really bit.


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Be glad, Clapper.
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Originally Posted By: Geo. Newbern
Originally Posted By: John Roberts
Any grown man that shoots a jake needs his ass kicked up around his shoulders. Sounds like your household is near starvation. Hope you're real proud. Should have kept that shit to yourself.JR


Some have questioned why I chose not to respond in kind to JR's post. He and I have different opinions regarding the supposed ethics of certain perfectly legal turkey hunting techniques and practices. I can only respect his opinions. However I am not required to agree with him.

While I think that his opinions regarding tungsten shot, decoys, the taking of legal jake turkeys (young gobblers with beards less than 6 inches), and his personal decision to limit himself to one bird notwithstanding local regulations are nothing but unfounded personal prejudice and an expression of ego on his part, I won't get into an argument with him about it. He's free to believe what he will and express his opinion, though I wish he had not verbally attacked me in this particular thread.

I don't think JR and I would enjoy hunting together. He'll just have to place me in the "I'll hunt my way and you hunt yours" category...Geo


Here Here Geo and well played. I wish others, including myself, would just follow your example and masterful use of southern charm. I've been avoiding posting much on this board lately becuase the cabal are up to this old shenanigans again, big suprise it's an election year, and I didn't see John's posts until today. Totally uncalled for and reading it just pisses me off. Nice trio of Jakes BTW. Glad the decoys got them to come in quick.


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I really enjoy this topic and enjoy seeing the pictures and reading the stories that accompany them.

I think legal and ethical are the standards by which a man measures his hunting. It's fine to hold oneself to a standard that is higher, but never lower, than legal and ethical. I'm reminded of a line from Cory Ford, "A purist is someone who goes to great lengths to deny himself a little pleasure." I've been around people who say you're not a real bowhunter if you use a compound bow. It's certainly alright for them to limit themselves to certain equipment, but if the state laws say it is legal and ethical equipment, so it is.

I'll leave you with another funny line from Corey Ford's Lower Forty. One of the members of the Lower Forty was having a bad day on the home trout waters. He's complaining and says, "This old trout stream isn't what it used to be, and furthermore, it never was." Figure that one out.

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Were the wild turkey just another "bird", I suppose turning a hunt for this noble thing into a quick "whack 'em and stack 'em", then bragging about it on a public forum like this, disguised as a just another good ol' huntin' story and "look at what I did" with your chest all pumped up, would not bother me. But it did. And i felt correct in my feeling without reservation and with some brief soul-searching.

Perhaps my language was a little strong, but, as I see it, he asked for it.

Obviously. you guys think he's a lot more righteous in his actions than I am in my chastising. Whatever. I'll stick with my convictions on this, and y'all can stick with yours.

And you, and George, and I, can all go on our merry way,
JR

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