Grueling Turkey course

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If you can remember to breathe you can pass this puppy...just remember the following:
- no beard = not a legal bird
- a tree as wide as your sholders and at least as high as your head
- #4, #5, & #6
- know your target BEFORE pulling the trigger (duh)
- pattern your shottie BEFORE going out
- do NOT wear blue/red/white (nice and anti-American)

Other than that drink lot's of coffee and if your buddy falls asleep in the ####ter kick his ass out! If you have to sit through this so does he!

Where is the course in Hamilton being held?

 

[LeePeterson]

It's Saturday April 8th. at the Renaissance Banquet & Special Events Centre

2289 Barton Street East. It's 40 bucks at the door if there's seats left. Fishing world will be selling lots of Turkey stuff

 

[Calum]

Why exactly do you need a "Turkey course" for in Ontario?
How are they different then any other type of Upland game bird?

Congrats on passing the course BTW.

 

[Guigsy]

Well I take my course tomorrow at Humber College. So, what I'm gathering from all the reply's is that I should get lots of sleep tonight so that I'm able to stay awake for the duration of the course.

 

[LeePeterson]

7 More days till my course, I can't wait. I really wanna pass this sucker and get out scouting. I bought a Quakey boy hurricane box call today, and it sounds great and is super easy to use.

 

[RDS]

I took the course when it swung through Humber College a few years ago...boring...but, same old stuff is going on now it seems. The guy sitting beside me even announced out loud that all the people that failed the test (and there were quite a few) should voluntarily hand in their hunting licenses because they didn't deserve to have them. He wasn't very popular...

Get used to seeing the same old antics during turkey season as are performed by unethical hunters during the other seasons. Last year a group of four gentlemen were driving turkeys through the area I hunt to their buddies...I witnessed two gentlemen hunting with .22LR rifles (I'd like to think they were out for a day of 'hogging or shooting crows, but the fact that they had the rifle pointed at turkeys kind of gave it away)...and I watched another gentleman haul two Toms out of the woods all by himself...no partner...so he obviously harvested both on the same day.

Some may think I'm a real jerk, but, I took down all license plate info (when I was able to find their vehicles and witness them leaving in them) after phoning the OPP and MNR earlier to report the occurences and then called the OPP and MNR back with the info. I hope they all got what was coming to them...because they're the reason most people have a negative outlook on hunting in general.

 

[762nato]

Remember leave your blue hanky at home and don't shoot the six foot tall turkey in camoflage, utter and complete BS.

Andy

 

[mommabear]

Lol@ 762nato!
Lee have fun... you seem truley interested, I think you will enjoy the course, I suppose , also, it depends on the people giving the course, whether or not they can keep your interest!!!

 

[LeePeterson]

The guys giving my course are Bill and Rocky. Anyone been to a course they have held?

 

[brianp]

Just got out of the one in St. Catharines today. 6 hours of stuff that's all contained in the pamphlet they hand out at the start. I could have wrote the test at 9:15am. In a just world you would be able to pick up the pamphlet and challenge the test (I use the word challenge loosely) without burning a day. OFAH has to protect it's racket though. It was a complete waste of a Saturday except for the fact I can now get a turkey license.

Bill and Rocky were nice enough. One's a shotgunner, the other is a bow hunter (can't remember which was which). The Fishing World stuff seemed a tad expensive to me, but I haven't priced turkey stuff. I may have walked away from some bargains for all I know.

If you can't pass you should be wearing a helmet and riding the short bus to school. One of the instructors said "I don't know of anybody ever failing the test."

 

[brianp]

Why exactly do you need a "Turkey course" for in Ontario?
How are they different then any other type of Upland game bird?

Congrats on passing the course BTW.

Hunting Turkeys is more like stand hunting whitetail deer than shooting an upland bird. You plant yourself at the base of a tree near a field and call the bird to you. The problem is that they have good eyesight and that requires the hunter to be in full camo, without the blaze orange that he'd be wearing during a deer season. As a result, there's an extra course that is supposed to insure that turkey hunters don't shoot each other.