The farmer took the beans out this week and I was finally able to get to the turkey blind. No luck yesterday, but this morning I was able to convince a flock of about a dozen hens to check out my decoys. This little gal got the short straw:
About twenty yards back to the blind.
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Pat
"The Turkey magnet" is back at it. LOL! Way to go Pat.
Dave
Yep..heeeee's baaaack! :bowingsmilie:
I went out today didn't see a damn thing :argh:
Turkeynator! Pat, you are really good at the hunting and when it come to shooting.
I'm betting there is a list somewhere that turkeys keep and Pat is on the "naughty" side of the ledger.
Good job. :yoyo:
I just noticed it was a crossbow and not a shotgun :doh2:
Pat's a turkey killing machine!
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Nice looking bird and will be good once it is out of the oven. Since you gave up the shotgun to give them a chance and now keep dropping them with the crossbow I think you should consider a slingshot next.
Blowgun!
Congratulation Pat. Have you kept score over the years as to how many, weapon, time of day, etc.?
Quote from: JohnP on October 20, 2019, 02:20:06 PM
Have you kept score over the years as to how many, weapon, time of day, etc.?
John,
I believe I have taken thirty-nine since December 2010. Two with an Encore 12ga., five with an Encore .410 handgun, twelve with the crossbow, and twenty with a Mossberg 12ga. A few were taken in the late afternoon or evening, but the vast majority were taken in the morning, usually within a couple hours of sunrise. All but one were taken on the same farm.
I am still allowed three more this fall season, if I can make it happen. :biggrin:
Pat
Sling shot, blow gun or an atlatl.
I bet Pat could pull it off
Im confident I could stick one with my cold steel blowgun, but the state says no 😡😡
Quote from: Hawks Feather on October 20, 2019, 09:16:05 PM
Quote from: nastygunz on October 20, 2019, 12:00:21 PM
Blowgun!
That will be interesting!
Holey Moley, we r only allowed 2 for a year.
Quote from: coyote101 on October 20, 2019, 07:40:43 PM
Quote from: JohnP on October 20, 2019, 02:20:06 PM
Have you kept score over the years as to how many, weapon, time of day, etc.?
John,
I believe I have taken thirty-nine since December 2010. Two with an Encore 12ga., five with an Encore .410 handgun, twelve with the crossbow, and twenty with a Mossberg 12ga. A few were taken in the late afternoon or evening, but the vast majority were taken in the morning, usually within a couple hours of sunrise. All but one were taken on the same farm.
I am still allowed three more this fall season, if I can make it happen. :biggrin:
Pat
https://youtu.be/WdGkP2ID5S4
No slingshots, blowguns, or atlatls allowed for turkey here. We are limited to breech or muzzle loading shotguns between 10 gauge and .410, and archery equipment. Slingshots are allowed for small game.
Pat
Quote from: nastygunz on October 21, 2019, 02:44:13 AM
Holey Moley, we r only allowed 2 for a year.
We are allowed a total of six each year. Two gobblers in the spring and one gobbler and three hens, or four hens in the fall. A very liberal limit which I try to take advantage of. :biggrin:
Pat
I sure would!
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We are allowed a total of six each year. Two gobblers in the spring and one gobbler and three hens, or four hens in the fall. A very liberal limit which I try to take advantage of. :biggrin:
Pat
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We are only allowed one per year and it is a draw. If applying for Goulds forget it, I am going to put my nine year old in for the draw, by the time he is in his thirties he might get drawn.
I've shot a lot of rocks at critters and would sure try a turkey if I had them here. Wife cae home with 4 new slingshots for me as she found them on sale. I've hit a few moose but they don't even really notice :iroll:. Ruffed grouse I've ate because I used a slingshot and one goose that I managed to break a wing on.
I hit a moose with a thrown rock once :yoyo: I buy bags of marbles at the dollar store for my slingshot ammunition.
Quote from: pitw on October 23, 2019, 06:43:08 PM
I've shot a lot of rocks at critters and would sure try a turkey if I had them here. Wife cae home with 4 new slingshots for me as she found them on sale. I've hit a few moose but they don't even really notice :iroll:. Ruffed grouse I've ate because I used a slingshot and one goose that I managed to break a wing on.
Wow! You must be good with a slingshot! I had a cousin who could hit pert near anything he shot at with one, but I never was any good. I've killed more grouse than I can remember by throwing rocks (as a good many western men have) but was so poor with slingshot that I never tried it.
Quote from: Okanagan on October 24, 2019, 08:13:21 AM
Quote from: pitw on October 23, 2019, 06:43:08 PM
I've shot a lot of rocks at critters and would sure try a turkey if I had them here. Wife cae home with 4 new slingshots for me as she found them on sale. I've hit a few moose but they don't even really notice :iroll:. Ruffed grouse I've ate because I used a slingshot and one goose that I managed to break a wing on.
Wow! You must be good with a slingshot! I had a cousin who could hit pert near anything he shot at with one, but I never was any good. I've killed more grouse than I can remember by throwing rocks (as a good many western men have) but was so poor with slingshot that I never tried it.
Good with a slingshot made me :alscalls:. I just shoot a lot so I guess you could call it the shotgun effect Kinda/sorta. This thread took me memory back to when I was 16. An old boy who needed help to keep hunting took me out West in search of Moose[we didn't have any around here then]. While driving a bad two track into where we would set up camp a spruce grouse was standing on the road. Ol' Floyd said stop so he could get his 22 and get supper for us. I said he didn't need no damb gun for this as there were lots of baseball size dried out mud balls on the ground. Ol' Floyd allowed me to try as he was that kinda feller who enjoyed watching a fool and his actions. I got out and grabbed a mud ball and threw, I missed where that bird was standing by about 12 feet left and 6 foot high. That dang bird flew as I threw and I'll be dambed if he didn't fly right into the missile. Ol' Floyd never missed a beat as he said, "Nice lead". :alscalls: We laughed about that for as long as it took to clean and cook supper.
I use fiber optic sights on my slinger!
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(https://i.ibb.co/WxQB0x4/image.jpg)
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Big game slinger:
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I hope Pat never runs into this gobbler :innocentwhistle:
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Tell me about your fiber optic ball thrower nasty!
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There are some amazing slingshot videos on YouTube. Some of those guys are downright snipers. I noticed that they all shoot so the slingshot is sideways and use the top Arm to aim with. A split finger grip. When I was shooting a lot this summer I got pretty good at nailing a soda can just about every time. I find that sideways split finger slingshot way of shooting to be a lot easier and more accurate than a traditional handle grip straight up and down shooting position.
https://youtu.be/TfrzmM0vWdQ
https://youtu.be/v3-FSkRHrAs
This guy has some really good tips and he is from Vermont and won that survival show! He has some really interesting videos.
https://youtu.be/ZuUrRvIvGYs
Helll yesssss!
https://www.montiegear.com/Fiber_Optic_Sights.html
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Man that's some awesome shooting! I'm going to have to look into getting me one of those!
I think I would like it better than a nice pellet rifle.
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They are a ton of fun for sure. I go to the dollar store and buy these giant bags of marbles and use them for ammo. I honestly have more fun shooting a slingshot and a blowgun and BB gun and pellet guns then I do real guns. It's a lot cheaper and quieter ha ha.
I would highly recommend one of these bad boys:
https://www.amazon.com/Cold-Steel-Blowgun-Hunting-Weapon/dp/B00169OGX6/ref=sr_1_6?dchild=1&gclid=EAIaIQobChMI792BhuuS5gIVOYNaBR2R2A30EAAYASAAEgJ3v_D_BwE&hvadid=397154520695&hvdev=t&hvlocphy=9002387&hvnetw=g&hvpos=1t1&hvqmt=b&hvrand=3277449862106513497&hvtargid=kwd-296654511766&hydadcr=16503_9854772&keywords=cold+steel+625+magnum&qid=1575147944&sr=8-6
It doesn't open for me nasty!
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Just google cold steel magnum blowgun. Tim Wells taking a black bear with the same blowgun:
https://youtu.be/euf2kMefMYg
Watched that video, that guys hammered those bears!
I had a blow gun Once it was kind of cool but I used to make sling shots all the time, I like them better. How much do you pay for marbels?
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$1.00 a bag at the dollar store.
Thats a good deal, I don't know if ours sells them here.
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https://www.dollartree.com/bulk/Glass-Marbles
Many many years ago Dad carried a sling shot & a 45cal ML deer hunting. If he found a deer laying in the heavy brush he would try to setup where he could smack the deer with a marble & get a shot as it stood up or came out. :biggrin: :biggrin:
When I find them laying down in the heavy brush I just jump on them with my buck knife, that's why it's called a buck knife :innocentwhistle: :yoyo:
What if it's a doe?
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No horns no knife :biggrin: speaking of that I've been seeing videos on YouTube of these guys using spears to take everything from whitetails to water buffalo so I sent fish n game an email asking them about the legality of taking a white tail or a bear with a spear and they replied and said are you serious? And then answered no !
I have been spearing stuff for yrs fish, deer, cows,frogs even ducks and geeze!
Yep if they get close enough to my fork im going to spear it.
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I just speared a trophy class ham and cheese omelette :wink: :biggrin:
No pics it didn't happen.
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Too late now, :innocentwhistle:
:alscalls: what in the hell
What the hell happened to this forum 🕵👮
Topics change quicker than a quarter horse in a barrel race.
This is a made from scratch thread lol
Quote from: nastygunz on December 03, 2019, 02:25:14 PM
When I find them laying down in the heavy brush I just jump on them with my buck knife, that's why it's called a buck knife :innocentwhistle: :yoyo:
Speaking of jumping on a buck with a buck knife: I knew a fellow, now passed, who did that. He was a gangly tall fellow who looked like the cartoon character Goofy, and he bought himself a new sheath knife one Fall that he was really proud of. He was hunting with some Native men and someone, maybe him, shot a black tail buck and knocked it down. He ran to the deer, swung a leg over its back, grabbed an antler and reached around under the neck with his knife to cut its throat. At that point the buck jumped up and took off running into thick brush, with the man draped over its back and a bunch of Indians whooping for him to stay with it.
I got to know some folks from that village a few years later and at least 3 or 4 men told me that same story, because they knew I knew the man. I mentioned it to him and he shook his head with a grimace grin and said, “Well, it wasn’t quite like that.â€
My uncle had the same experience and wound up getting into a brawl with a deer and it kicked the hell out of him and pissed all over him and then he finally stabbed it to death ha ha. I believe that was on a night hunting expedition :innocentwhistle: :biggrin:
:highclap: :whew:
Quote from: Hawks Feather on December 08, 2019, 07:01:22 AM
Topics change quicker than a quarter horse in a barrel race.
Not all barrel racers use quarter horses, our three daughters used Arabian, Grade and Quarter. When we asked our son what horse he wanted he replied don't want a horse, want a car.