hambone44
Senior Member
I purchased the VHS, "Boss Beards II" by Team Fitzgerald, b/c it was the first of very few I found on the subject of bowhunting turks which show the full hunt from setting up to the kill.
Well, I have seen a lot of wild turkeys, at least Easterns in North Florida in my hunting days, and none of them carried themselves like the supposed Merriams??? in this video.
These guys are sitting in a Double-Bull blind, and , for one, surely don't strike me as well schooled turkey hunters (or callers, but, they are in the blind, father and son, taking turns filming what to me, clearly are not fully wild, if wild at all, full grown turkey gobblers walking up to the blind , with their heads down, , not alert whatsoever, not gobbling while approaching the call, within feet, and these guys just peg 'em with their bow.
Now, I maybe totally wrong. If I am, I really owe an apology to these guys, BUT, the turkeys are aimlessly wandering up to the blind, basically, and their snoods and wattles look really thick and fat like domesticated birds, and their gait is not that which I have witnessed a mature wild eastern tom ever perform.
The man who has his turn shooting at the time, draws his bow, lets fly the arrow, and runs out of the blind, up to the flapping bird, and picks it up, and then proceeds with his seemingly rehearsed "whew, it don't get no better than this" and "what a bird"....bla, bla, bla.
Sometimes you just get a gut feeling about something, and mine was such that, halfway through the new video, I snatched it out of the VCR and placed it back in its box, and doubt I will look at it again.
I have high hopes of killing a turkey with my bow this year, as I had last year (but never did), but if and when I do, I won't be shootin' anything but wild Easterns with it.
Shame on those guys for selling that crap.
In other words, don't waste your money on this junk!
(P.S. Does anyone have knowledge of any truly good videos of bowhunting truly wild turkeys?)
Well, I have seen a lot of wild turkeys, at least Easterns in North Florida in my hunting days, and none of them carried themselves like the supposed Merriams??? in this video.
These guys are sitting in a Double-Bull blind, and , for one, surely don't strike me as well schooled turkey hunters (or callers, but, they are in the blind, father and son, taking turns filming what to me, clearly are not fully wild, if wild at all, full grown turkey gobblers walking up to the blind , with their heads down, , not alert whatsoever, not gobbling while approaching the call, within feet, and these guys just peg 'em with their bow.
Now, I maybe totally wrong. If I am, I really owe an apology to these guys, BUT, the turkeys are aimlessly wandering up to the blind, basically, and their snoods and wattles look really thick and fat like domesticated birds, and their gait is not that which I have witnessed a mature wild eastern tom ever perform.
The man who has his turn shooting at the time, draws his bow, lets fly the arrow, and runs out of the blind, up to the flapping bird, and picks it up, and then proceeds with his seemingly rehearsed "whew, it don't get no better than this" and "what a bird"....bla, bla, bla.
Sometimes you just get a gut feeling about something, and mine was such that, halfway through the new video, I snatched it out of the VCR and placed it back in its box, and doubt I will look at it again.
I have high hopes of killing a turkey with my bow this year, as I had last year (but never did), but if and when I do, I won't be shootin' anything but wild Easterns with it.
Shame on those guys for selling that crap.
In other words, don't waste your money on this junk!
(P.S. Does anyone have knowledge of any truly good videos of bowhunting truly wild turkeys?)
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