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Post by MuzzleLoader on Apr 7, 2017 6:57:45 GMT -5
I will never fan a turkey or crawl behind a decoy to a turkey. You just never know when some trespasser decides to come across the line and try for the turkey he sees in the woods/field. Turkeys are just not worth a load of shot to the face.
I walked up a ridge one mid morning to a hot turkey gobbling. I was about 50 yards from the fence line and got the turkey to come in on my side. I shot and almost immediately, a guy stood up from fence row, directly the line of fire. He came running over and said that was so cool to have the turkey walk right by him to me. I asked him why he didn't make me aware of being there? He said he didn't want to ruin my hunt and I was calling so well! Geez man, I could have shot you!!!!! He didn't seem to worried about it......
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Post by dbd870 on Apr 7, 2017 7:48:30 GMT -5
We've never had a problem with trespassers on the places JDUB and I hunt but I have to admit the practice would make me a bit nervous. You never know when someone might be there who shouldn't be.
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Post by wesb81219 on Apr 7, 2017 8:54:25 GMT -5
So is Walmart somehow responsible for the turkey fanning craze? What's your beef with people buying hunting items at Walmart? This isn't the first time I've seen you mention something like this lol. I'm definitely not an idiot nor am I ignorant. I also do my best to learn and practice good hunting skills and safety. However I do buy some hunting items at Walmart. I've bought some stuff at Walmart. Not everyone who shops at Walmart is a complete idiot but I bet you every complete idiot, lazy piece of meth addicted trash in Lawrence county ALL DO SHOP at Walmart. Walmart has no class, conscience or morality. They'd put heroin on the shelves in the toy aisle in a heart beat if it was legal tomorrow. I hate to even set foot on WM parking lot but they've run most everyplace else out of business completely in small town Indiana. 30 mile round trip to Walmart is bad enough. Make that pretty much 80 or more to the next better store left who can survive. Who would have ever thought 30 years ago Kroger and Target would be "high class" someday. I'm still trying to figure out how Walmart selling hunting items and buying hunting items at Walmart induced this idiotic meth crazed hunting technique.
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Post by hornzilla on Apr 7, 2017 9:24:50 GMT -5
What's your beef with people buying hunting items at Walmart? This isn't the first time I've seen you mention something like this lol. I'm definitely not an idiot nor am I ignorant. I also do my best to learn and practice good hunting skills and safety. However I do buy some hunting items at Walmart. I've bought some stuff at Walmart. Not everyone who shops at Walmart is a complete idiot but I bet you every complete idiot, lazy piece of meth addicted trash in Lawrence county ALL DO SHOP at Walmart. Walmart has no class, conscience or morality. They'd put heroin on the shelves in the toy aisle in a heart beat if it was legal tomorrow. I hate to even set foot on WM parking lot but they've run most everyplace else out of business completely in small town Indiana. 30 mile round trip to Walmart is bad enough. Make that pretty much 80 or more to the next better store left who can survive. Who would have ever thought 30 years ago Kroger and Target would be "high class" someday. Wow, What a sad opinionated outlook on people and life in general.
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Post by featherduster on Apr 7, 2017 9:25:16 GMT -5
Me too!
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Apr 7, 2017 11:12:26 GMT -5
I bought blaze orange at Walmart. Was it the head to toe full body suit? Lol face paint
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Post by Deleted on Apr 7, 2017 13:29:17 GMT -5
Was it the head to toe full body suit? Lol face paint Go to a LSU football game and find a lot of orange face paint.
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Post by Jamie Brooks 1John5:13 on Apr 7, 2017 14:05:02 GMT -5
Go to a LSU football game and find a lot of orange face paint. I just didn't want to get shot in the face; it might mess up my goatee.
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Post by Genesis 27:3 on Apr 9, 2017 17:33:18 GMT -5
I hadn't tried stalking with a fan but, I've stalked turkey (bagged mine last year via stalking) and I have flashed a fan as I sat trying to lure birds my way. All on private land.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 10, 2017 7:05:05 GMT -5
This past Saturday I was able to snick up a Tom to 25 yards, no fan. Just moved every time he turned when strutting. The hens where still roosting. He was out there early to caught them heading to the neighbors bird feeder.
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Post by 76chevy on Apr 22, 2017 5:58:28 GMT -5
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Post by 76chevy on Apr 22, 2017 5:59:21 GMT -5
Two Arkansas men remained in critical but stable condition at a Joplin hospital Friday, two days after having been shot by a third member of their hunting party on the opening day of turkey season in Kansas.
Dan Peak, the sheriff in Crawford County where the shooting took place, identified the two wounded hunters as Justin Wiles, 34, of Hardy, Arkansas, and Gary Dienst, 32, of Highland, Arkansas.
They were struck in their faces and upper bodies by the shot from a single shell of a .12-gauge shotgun fired by Dienst's older brother, Kenneth Dienst, 35, of West Plains, Missouri. The sheriff's office initially reported that all three hunters were from Arkansas but corrected that information on Friday with the release of their names.
An investigation of the shooting was winding down without having turned up anything to contradict Kenneth Dienst's account that he accidentally shot his brother and close friend, mistaking them for a turkey.
"We haven't had anything surface that indicates otherwise," Peak said.
The sheriff said the two wounded hunters have yet to be interviewed due to their relatively serious medical conditions. But investigators have found no evidence at the scene that was inconsistent with the shooting having been an accident.
The three men had obtained lease rights to hunt the property they were on. They had split up at dawn, with Kenneth Dienst getting dropped off by the other two who wished to hunt a different spot. Wiles and Gary Dienst set up just inside a wooded area, wearing camouflage and lying behind a fan made of turkey feathers.
About 8:40 a.m., Kenneth Dienst fired his gun at what he thought was turkey that he had been "calling in." The shot struck his brother and Wiles. Kenneth Dienst told investigators that they must have been hunting the same bird that he was and that he realized the mistake he had made almost immediately after pulling the trigger.
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