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IT IS TIME.

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Machias:
Pope your missing the hole dang point.  Your sitting there encouraging a 16 year old to hunt in an unsafe manner.  These turkey hunting safety tips were compiled over several years of other folks making a mistake.  Does it mean that everytime you stalk a turkey you'll get shot, or shoot someone sitting behind a realistic looking decoy, nope.  But it has happened enough times to warn folks it's not a good move.  It has NOTHING to do with what is sporting or challenging.  Do you climb over fences with a loaded gun?  Lots of people do and they don't shoot themselves or someone else, but enough folks have to warn people not to do it.  Do you jump across a creek with a loaded weapon?  Ride in a vehicle with a loaded weapon?  Lots of things you can do and get away with, but there is a reason why "DO NOT STALK TURKEYS" is at the TOP of almost every safety tips you look at.

MountainWalk:
i still say i cant believe that nobody can find somthing better  to point a shotgun at than a dang ol turkey!!...........i killed two in arkansas, and that is enough for me. yall can keep the turkies and the turkey arguments

kirkl:
turkey is the only thing open right now for shotguns, i guess we could all be home pulling our puds.  :IBCOOL: Or taking pics of horses.  :chuckle:

MountainWalk:
aye, you may be right about the hunting part, but i have a post mounted trap that has two boxes of birds next to it.. i prefer to shoot them

Machias:
 :beatdeadhorse:  One last post and I promise I'm done,  great article from the Missouri Dept of Conservation, where they harvest 60,000 toms each, three week, spring season.

The Conservation Department has confirmed nine spring turkey hunting accidents this year. They ranged from a person who was struck in the nose by one shotgun pellet to a man who died of his injuries. One other accident is under investigation to determine whether it was related to turkey hunting. This year--as every year--most spring turkey hunting accidents occurred when a hunter mistook another person for a turkey.

"Missouri has so many turkeys, people sometimes take for granted that it's just them and the birds out there," said Rick Flint, hunter education program coordinator for the Conservation Department. "They let down their guard and shoot without waiting to see the entire bird and positively identify it. It's the most common turkey hunting error. There is no excuse for it."

Missouri has averaged approximately eight hunting accidents per spring turkey season over the last 10 years. In the previous decade, the average was 17 accidents per year. The worst year was 1986, when 29 people were injured and two died in spring turkey hunting accidents.

"Seeing accounts of hunting accidents in the news media, it's easy to forget how far we have come," said Flint. Before 1986, when hunter education became mandatory, our turkey hunting accident rate was twice what it is now." He said increased awareness of what causes hunting accidents has helped hunters be safer.

Turkey hunting in this state is really in it's infancy, there is no reason we should have to go through the same growing pains as other states.  We can learn from other folk's misfortune.  Good luck and be safe folks.

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