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Rifle Hunting Turkeys; Anyone here do it?
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<blockquote data-quote="FlGunner" data-source="post: 1948208" data-attributes="member: 94240"><p>I'm totally against it. Not because of it being easy or not giving the bird a shooting chance, but because no one wears orange like they do deer hunting. People get shot every year across the country with shotguns Turkey hunting by someone not smart enough to know what they're shooting or what is on the other side of there target. Folks have decoys that look real and "cooning" or "fanning" toms is very popular today. Can you imagine having a rifle ball come flying into your set up from across a clear cut out from down the road from some fool? It's happened to me here in Fl and let me tell you it's scary. Thankfully I didn't get hit and thankfully neither did my son who was 5 at the time. Nothing the guy did was "illegal" but thankfully after that our hunting club made it against the rules to use a rifle in gobbler season. I know the same possibility exists with deer hunting but at least normally folks are wearing orange majority of the time. But rifles and turkey hunting should never mix. Public or private, don't matter. I know we all want an upper hand but sometimes we need to limit things. If you want a turkey so bad you need a rifle, the grocery stores will help you fill that tag without it. Besides with today's loads like TSS I can take a bird easily at 50 yds with a 20 gauge.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="FlGunner, post: 1948208, member: 94240"] I’m totally against it. Not because of it being easy or not giving the bird a shooting chance, but because no one wears orange like they do deer hunting. People get shot every year across the country with shotguns Turkey hunting by someone not smart enough to know what they’re shooting or what is on the other side of there target. Folks have decoys that look real and “cooning” or “fanning” toms is very popular today. Can you imagine having a rifle ball come flying into your set up from across a clear cut out from down the road from some fool? It’s happened to me here in Fl and let me tell you it’s scary. Thankfully I didn’t get hit and thankfully neither did my son who was 5 at the time. Nothing the guy did was “illegal” but thankfully after that our hunting club made it against the rules to use a rifle in gobbler season. I know the same possibility exists with deer hunting but at least normally folks are wearing orange majority of the time. But rifles and turkey hunting should never mix. Public or private, don’t matter. I know we all want an upper hand but sometimes we need to limit things. If you want a turkey so bad you need a rifle, the grocery stores will help you fill that tag without it. Besides with today’s loads like TSS I can take a bird easily at 50 yds with a 20 gauge. [/QUOTE]
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