Would you shoot a turkey out off the roost?

[deltaops]

Everyone hunts different, I do it to get out and have fun but I also want to fill my tag. As long as it is legal, I will fill my tag no matter what.

I will also teach my son the same thing. If it is legal, take the shot. What some think is unethical mat eventually become illegal. 

People scream no more rules but then threads like this pop up and all of a sudden when someone does anything someone may consider unethical, OH MY GOODNESS! 

You do your thing I will do my thing, as long as I am not doing anything illegal, nothing should matter.

[Kc_Kracker]

If it's legal then no one has a right to complain how another hunter harvests his/her kill. (as long as it's done clean and quick)

If you have a personal rule that prohibits you from sluicing a bird out the tree then good on you 
I have a ton of "rules" and challenges, but I won't force them upon you all under the hammer of public scrutiny.

So while I won't shoot one out of a tree as I see no point in it....I won't bash someone else for doing it, unless I had that flock pegged the night before and was set up to call them.  Where I hunt turkey though there's usually only one road in and I'll park out of the way but make it obvious I'm down there.  If they drove past me and sluiced one then I'd be a little hot under the collar I suppose - but then that doesn't really have anything to do with turkey hunting, that's just being an *censored*.


Have you ever sluiced a grouse off a dirt road?  It's the same thing if you ask an upland guy with a prized bird dog.

Have you ever shot a running phez?  Same thing

Shot a duck on the water?  Same thing!


So don't get on here bashing the way someone else does something just because YOU don't think it's ethical.  The more I read HW the more I'm turning away from what's seen as ethical and relying on what's Legal. 

The problem is if enough people see something as unethical pretty soon it's prohibited  -  hounds anyone?

(I'm not talking to anyone in particular, so don't take offense)

well stated 

[LndShrk]

I like to flush them from the trees and shoot em on the wing. 

[bobcat]

I like to flush them from the trees and shoot em on the wing. 

[h20hunter]

I like to flush them from the trees and shoot em on the wing. 

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With a bow and fluflu arrows.

[turkeydancer]

It's not illegal, but with that said what fun is it to blast them off the roost.  For me it's about the hunt ... calling them in close ... definitely not about the harvest since it's a lot cheaper to bag a Safeway bird !   

[jblackburn]

I shot one out of a tree once.  It was in Missouri and almost 9:00 in the morning.  I was working two birds and for some reason they flew up a hill and landed 20 yards from me and a buddy.  It was an interesting double!

[bobcat]

It's not illegal, but with that said what fun is it to blast them off the roost. 

Well, for me I always think it's more fun to shoot something than it is to shoot nothing.

A turkey is also bound to taste better than tag soup.

[Holg3107]

Would you shoot a turkey while it was on the roost? And if not would you hunt with someone who would or did?

1: No I have not and would not.
2: Nope, I like to hunt with like minded people. Yes I understand that it is legal and to each there own but I just don't get the point. If you are going to shoot a turkey out of the roost save yourself some money and buy a butterball. It also appears that many of the people who are willing to shoot a roosted turkey have little to no experience turkey hunting which may directly correlate to their misunderstanding of how truly unsporting it is to shoot a roosted turkey.

Illegal? Nope
Unethical? To me YES, to others no so to each their own.
Unsporting? Most definitely.

[3nails]

once again its a bird! who cares

  My thoughts exactly.

[KopperBuck]

I like to flush them from the trees and shoot em on the wing. 

Last turkey I killed was exactly like this. It was dead before it hit the ground

[Swatson]

This thread has cracked me up.  I don't hunt Turkeys but can't help but relate it to archery elk.  Their is nothing better in the world than calling in a screaming bull but should I be fortunate enough to stumble into one in its bed in mid afternoon I wouldn't hesitate one bit about sticking him!  No different for the rifle guys shooting a bedded bull at 300 or 400 yards, that takes as about as much skill as shooting a bird in a tree.  To each his own though!  Pretty brutal to tell someone their not welcome in your camp solely off the fact they would shoot a bird in a tree!  Be like telling someone their not allowed in elk camp if their willing to shoot an elk that wasn't called in!   

[Broken Arrow]

same thread....different year.

[jackelope]

If its legal. Im stickin em. Put to much money into everything to go home empty handed.

If it's really a matter of the cost effectiveness of it, you'd be a heck of a lot cheaper, and more delicious for that matter, if you go to Safeway.
 

[jackelope]

same thread....different year.