3 Turkeys with one shot video

CROWCA said:
Super brad you would drop three deer,if you could,but not three turkeys if it were legal!!
Difference being!!
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Huh?...

I wouldn't drop 3 deer if I could... I like to hunt... The act of hunting is more fun than the act of killing to me... Or bragging rights...

By dissapointed I meant my whole season would be done in a day...
 
We are all aware turkeys are relatively stupid,and shooting them is not that big of a challenge!!
 
Well Brad I do not have any pictures of Turkeys as I don't take them,if you are not capable of filling your turkey tags perhaps you are hunting in the wrong area.Turkeys are not that smart.
 
Again... Broaden your horizons... Deer aren't either in general... Getting a forkhorn is easy... Getting a seasoned experienced and smart buck... Not so much...

Shooting a jake... Not so hard... Calling in a mature tom during mating season is very difficult..

Now, if you are not picky and will take that jake you are right... Not much effort to fill a turkey tag....
 
CROWCA said:
Well Brad I do not have any pictures of Turkeys as I don't take them,if you are not capable of filling your turkey tags perhaps you are hunting in the wrong area.Turkeys are not that smart.
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I happen to know Superbrad's area fairly well, turkeys are hunted fairly heavily and get spooky quick.

I counted 7 shots opening morning in an area not far from where he is from.

I would say you aren't given Turkeys their due, they are one of the best game birds we have got.

Old trophy class gobblers get to be old by being smart. Turkeys are still relatively new to Ontario and some areas haven't reached the point where all the knuckle head birds have been shot off yet. It will come.
 
So based on seven shots opening morning turkeys are not that smart,I am not arguing with brads capability,he is questioning mine.I will say it a again turkeys are not that smart,there are very few truly mature toms lets say one with a head like a base ball,because they usually get shot before they get that old!
 
Sorry bud... Not questioning yours at all... Didn't mean to come off that way... Simply saying that taking a good size mature tom is no walk in the park...

As the ontario huunts progress the standards will as far as trophies... But you are somewhat right in that jakes are fairly easy targets... For those that are willing to put time in the bush anyways...
 
If you hunt one farm year after year that has turkey and no one bothers them you know were they eat,sleep you know were the big tom struts,you should be able to kill him in two days max.If you are talking about a Turkey you have been harassing for 5 weeks and he has seen you heard you and you continue to do the same thing every day,that would be more of a challenge.If you shoot him on day one or two you don't have to worry about week five!My5cents!
 
like superbrad said jakes and toms are two totally different creatures. Thats my main objection to the whole thing. Hell if i had shot the jakes that i have seen i could of killed 5 birds with 2 shots in no problem. Im not an excperinced turkey hunter and dont claim to be, however i've done it enough ( read at all ) to know that a jake is not anything like a tom. Two totally diffrent experinces. calling in a good tom is like what i would imagine bugling an elk in would be like. Calling jakes is generally pretty easy and they generally come in 2-3 at a time from my excperince. Like i said , if we all flock shot jakes we'd have no toms in about 3-4 years

those were merriams i think , but i could be wrong. Definatly not farm birds
 
turkeys as a rule are pretty dumb beasts but that being said they are amazingly aware of their environment. with predators coming from them from all angles they are acutely tuned to any movement out of the ordinary. any bird that is shot at and missed or have his buddy smoked surely learns from the experience but i hesitate to class that as intelligence.

there are areas in the States where you can take more than one bird a day and judging but the birds in the video I think they are Merriams.

not how I would want to take three birds but if it is legal who's to say?
 
I know two different people who have accidentally taken more than one turkey with a single shot. One was three birds and the other was four.

I am in no way condoning it but I can explain it. Relatively inexperienced turkey hunters, hunting for the first time in a newly opened fall season. Turkey's flocking up, staying close to each other and not nearly as wary as in the spring. (At least that has been my experience).

In both cases, the guys got reasonably close, called to try to move the birds with no luck, found a way to move closer (both are very experienced deer hunters) and took a shot at a bird on the edge of the flock.

As I saw both hunters within an hour of the birds being shot I can attest to how stunned they were at what happened. The rest of us were stunned too, as that was the end of our season.
 
I seem to remember watching a hunting show on WILD TV and the guy shot two at once and they stated that it was ok because he only used one shot to do it.

But perhaps I was dreaming.

On a personal note, I don't condone it. If my family were starving I would..... but otherwise I wouldn't.
 
It`s all well and good to judge this video but perhaps you don`t have all the facts. In my lowly opinion they were trying for a multiple kill, i saw a few good opportunitys for a single kill. Not condoning what they did but i`m not condemming them either until more facts become available.
 
CROWCA said:
If you hunt one farm year after year that has turkey and no one bothers them you know were they eat,sleep you know were the big tom struts,you should be able to kill him in two days max.If you are talking about a Turkey you have been harassing for 5 weeks and he has seen you heard you and you continue to do the same thing every day,that would be more of a challenge.If you shoot him on day one or two you don't have to worry about week five!My5cents!
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Toms aren't like Jakes and hens.... they don't travel set trails during season... they waddle all over the place hap hazard trying to strut their stuff in order to attract a mate... Usually, when you see a bunch of turkey in a field none of them are toms... you are more likely to see a tom alone in a field... other than during mating season they very antisocial creatures...
 
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