Gecko
Senior Member
I would never shoot one off of a limb, period. Unless of course he was wounded like others have posted. Just would not be right. I enjoy the challenge of calling them too much.
No why would a person waste there time,money,and energy if they were just going to wack one from a roost.
Just out of curiosity...who has actually snuck up close enough to a gobbler on a limb in good light to shoot him from it? They have such an advantage up in the tree and would more than likely spook before you got into range.
I've never shot a gobbler off the limb in my 17 years of turkey hunting... But I am not going to sit hear and say i will never do it...
It is perfectly leagal as long as it's leagal shooting light...
If I have went the whole season with out killing me a gobbler and I've about reached my point of frustration with chasing Pressured Gobblers... I may very well smoke one off the limb... I am not talking about purposly sneaking up to one on the roost and waiting for enough light to see him and then punking him off the limb..
I'm saying if I have gotton lucky enough to get in the woods and by some crazy odds I happen to set up within 30 yards off a roosted gobbler and i see him up on his limb gobbling his brains out... I prob will put his butt to sleep...
Say what you will... I am honest and aint ashamed to tell it like it is...
One thing you will get from me is the truth and nothin but the truth... I'm not like 90% of the people on these forum that act like there holier than thow and when there all by them selfs there punking birds out of fields and off the sides of roads from there truck... I don't live in a make believe world...
Oh and Im not a attorney either...
The term "holier than thou" gets tossed around a bit. But there are hunters out there that really are holier than thou. They possess principles that they refuse to disobey whatever the circumstances. They understand that the game they play has unwritten rules set down long before they ever came into the world and they feel an obligation to follow those unwritten rules.
Ok, I'm hearing an awful of the so-called unwritten rules so many folks are not obeying lately.
What are those rules?
ive shot plenty off the limb, after legal shooting hours of course. how i got my first bow kill.