Randy
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What is your opinion on shooting jakes?
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gobblinglawyer
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I do not shoot them.
However, my first bird was a jake and I would not and do not criticize hunters that choose to shoot them.
To me it is a personal perference and I have progressed past the point of shooting jakes. Kind of like how I don't shoot small bucks anymore.
However, my first bird was a jake and I would not and do not criticize hunters that choose to shoot them.
To me it is a personal perference and I have progressed past the point of shooting jakes. Kind of like how I don't shoot small bucks anymore.
Dudley Do-Wrong
Senior Member
I allowed my son to shoot a jake last year, it was his first bird. I told him that it was ok for a first bird, but no more jakes from now on. 2 weeks later he got a 10 incher. You gotta let the jakes grow, no doubt about it. With all the hens I'm seeing, I believe you should be allowed 1 hen a year.
finless brown
Senior Member
My first bird was a jake, and man he was tasty. Have not shot one since. I agree with the concensus that for a first timer or a child a jake is ok.
GeauxLSU
Senior Member
I've killed only one turkey in my life. It was a jake. I thought I was the greatest turkey hunter ever. 
The first buck I ever killed as a kid and new deer hunter was a spike. Both trophies to me. Every buck killed since has been bigger than the last.
My last buck was a mountable 8. My next one will have to be bigger.
JUST LIKE deer, my next turkey will have to be bigger, and therefore a mature tom.
I can't see making a practice out of shooting jakes just like I can't see making a practice out of shooting tiny bucks.
Both are legal, so knock yourself out if it's your bag.
Depends what you want...
The first buck I ever killed as a kid and new deer hunter was a spike. Both trophies to me. Every buck killed since has been bigger than the last.
My last buck was a mountable 8. My next one will have to be bigger.
JUST LIKE deer, my next turkey will have to be bigger, and therefore a mature tom.
I can't see making a practice out of shooting jakes just like I can't see making a practice out of shooting tiny bucks.
Both are legal, so knock yourself out if it's your bag.
Depends what you want...
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Etter1
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Private land-no
Public land-BANG!
Public land-BANG!
TurkeyManiac
Senior Member
I stopped killing Jakes a long time ago......but my father and I use to hunt with Dick Kirby of Quaker Boy. When he would come down he would shoot a Jake just the same as it was a boss gobbler. As talented as he is/was he was indiscriminate (sp). My father said Ben Lee was also the same way. I think that maybe 20yrs ago it was a bit different. If the mood hits me though I have nothing agaist shooting a Jake. There has just been no need for the last 5yrs or so.
Kwaksmoka
Senior Member
I pass them up as well, and as everyone else has said they woudn't mind a kid or someone's first bird to be a jake. That's what i was told by the guy who got me into turkey hunting. I was bound and determined for a Tom to be my first bird instead of a Jake, i got lucky and it worked out! Ten incher was my 1st. I guess the older i get the more conservative i am and it's not as much about the kill anymore!
-Kwak
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gobblinglawyer
Senior Member
Interesting point, Jody.
I have a friend that was plagued with gobbling jakes on his property a few years back. It seems this group of jakes had ganged up and they kept all his longbeards run off the property.
After a few weeks of frustration, he implemented a plan, though.......If you gobble like a man you die like a man.
I have a friend that was plagued with gobbling jakes on his property a few years back. It seems this group of jakes had ganged up and they kept all his longbeards run off the property.
After a few weeks of frustration, he implemented a plan, though.......If you gobble like a man you die like a man.
Randy
Senior Member
Handgunner
Senior Member
Why would someone want to shoot a jake? Poults eat better....... 
Arrow3
Senior Member
I don't shoot them....I have killed one or two earlier in my career, but I don't anymore...
Randy
Senior Member
Delton said:
SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. You're messing up my baited question!
Vernon Holt
Gone But Not Forgotten
My first bird was a hen, taken during fall season, which was legal in Coastal Bryan County in 1952.
I strongly disfavor fall hunting if proposed today.
I am not in favor of shooting jakes. Kinda like some football fans, "just wait'll next year". Never passed up on a jake without feeling good about it.
I strongly disfavor fall hunting if proposed today.
I am not in favor of shooting jakes. Kinda like some football fans, "just wait'll next year". Never passed up on a jake without feeling good about it.
Jim Thompson
Live From The Tree
I dont care eitehr way, but have passed on all jakes I have seen and have yet to kill a birdie.
now those toms get edumakated everytime they get within range though
now those toms get edumakated everytime they get within range though
GobblingDawg
Senior Member
I haven't had the desire to shoot a jake in many, many years. However, if one comes in when my son is hunting with me, I would break dance after he killed it.
Also, if the urge to kill a turkey with my bow gets much worse, all bets would be off!!!!!
Go Dawgs and come on March,
GobblingDawg
Also, if the urge to kill a turkey with my bow gets much worse, all bets would be off!!!!!
Go Dawgs and come on March,
GobblingDawg
