Shooting flying turkeys

[Amos Keeto]

In Oklahoma it’s illegal to shoot a turkey on the roost, so that’s also a shot I won’t take.

In Oklahoma, it's illegal to shoot turkeys on the roost.
It's also illegal to hunt turkeys within 100 yards of a corn feeder. It's illegal to hunt turkeys with a rifle in the spring. Fall shotgun season is rifle or shotgun for tom's only and last only 2 weeks.
In Texas, you still can't shoot turkeys off the roost, but you can hunt under a corn feeder and with rifle or shotgun, spring or fall. Don't know about season length.

 

[FoggyScope]

Last year my friend shot a turkey flying over the river when we were floating out from duck hunting.
We had duck hunted the morning and were floating out in the canoe. We saw a group of turkeys on the bank and said man wouldnt it be cool if they were on that legal to hunt sandbar in the river instead of the private field. We get by them and then all of a sudden they all take off for the sandbar. I spun the boat and he got one flying over. Fun duck hunt.

 

[CMP70306]

The sort of stunt OP pulled is illegal some places. Obviously there are reasons for it.

Reaping is banned in like nine states. The thread was framed as being about wingshooting. It is not. It's about pulling a stunt so ill-advised it has often been banned entirely.

Just because it is illegal doesn’t mean there’s anything inherently wrong with it especially in a case like this revolving around hunting methods. It’s illegal in those states for one of two reasons,

1.) The people who wrote the rules considered it unsportsmanlike and as a result specifically wrote the rules to make it illegal to do it any way but their way.

2.) Stupid people shooting other people thinking they were turkeys because they are incapable of taking the few seconds it takes to properly identify their target.

Big game hunting with dogs or over bait is banned here in PA but both are widely practiced in other parts of the country. In fact per the PA law not only is hunting big game with dogs illegal but you are legally allowed to kill any dog seen running big game.

 

[Predator_SD]

Gets 12 weeks of paternity leave goes turkey hunting instead. Hope you’re still married long term young man. Good luck with the turkeys.

 

[CMP70306]

Gets 12 weeks of paternity leave goes turkey hunting instead. Hope you’re still married long term young man. Good luck with the turkeys.

Well he did say it was his 4th and if I had to guess with knowledge that he would get 12 weeks leave that timing seems to have been intentional.

 

[5Woodies]

I have shot two turkeys in flight that I can recall. One my lab got up and it scared the hell out of me . The other was after I missed with my first shot . I was lucky to get both of them but shooting them in flight is something I prefer not to do .

 

[ShortMountain91]

Gets 12 weeks of paternity leave goes turkey hunting instead. Hope you’re still married long term young man. Good luck with the turkeys.

Well he did say it was his 4th and if I had to guess with knowledge that he would get 12 weeks leave that timing seems to have been intentional.

Well it's not like I've been hunting all daylight hours of every day of the 12 weeks but I appreciate the concern for my marriage. My wife and I are very stable and happily married. And we hunt or fish for something year around so there's no timing it with kids.

Come to ask about wing shooting turkeys and get marriage advice, I love Rokslide

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[highcountrymuley]

I think it is pushing the bounds of "sportsmanship" to shoot at flying turkeys unless u already wounded it and trying to finish it off.

I had a crazy experience in OK about 10 yrs ago. I was working a bird that kind of shut up so I was coming around the edge of a small hill (I didn't know the terrain and was trying to figure out a spot to set up again in better location). As I came to the top of the hill the gobbler was there and he jumped up in the air about 50 yds away. Another hunter was coming from the other direction, he had not been calling at all and I had no idea he was there. I didn't even think about shooting - but he did! The bird crashed to the ground. Scared the sh*! out of me and he got a bird. Public land hunting at its finest.

 

[Jellymon1]

I’m wondering how many of the people here saying they would never shoot a flying turkey are the same people who take 60+ yd shots at geese with steel shot and say it’s unethical to shoot them on the water.

 

[WRO]

I never understood the holier than thou crowd on glorified grouse. Love eating wild turkey and will kill them as I see pleased as long as legal. Banning reaping is laughable.

Dogs will at least point a grouse.

I’ve killed them about every way you can, I don’t get it and yes I’ve shot a few flying, they all died.

The best I’ve ever eaten I would describe as less shitty.

If you say there like hunting elk you probably rode a short bus as a child.

 

[CMP70306]

Well it's not like I've been hunting all daylight hours of every day of the 12 weeks but I appreciate the concern for my marriage. My wife and I are very stable and happily married. And we hunt or fish for something year around so there's no timing it with kids.

Come to ask about wing shooting turkeys and get marriage advice, I love Rokslide

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I told my wife I wanted to have our kids born between January and May as most of our hunting wraps up mid January and fishing doesn’t start until May. Our first was born in January so I manage to make it work the first time but since they opened a new late rifle season I told her the next one has to be born in February.

 

[LongWayAround]

It's unsportsmanlike to shoot a pheasant on the ground and also unsportsmanlike to shoot a turkey on the wing.

Hunters are funny with the way we all decide who can/should do what (not excluding myself from making such judgements).

For what it's worth, I remember reading an article that was referring to a hunt circa Teddy Roosevelt. A bunch of turkeys were roosted somewhere along a ridgeline. Shooters were positioned at the toe of the slope and drivers pushed the birds towards them.

 

[Predator_SD]

Well it's not like I've been hunting all daylight hours of every day of the 12 weeks but I appreciate the concern for my marriage. My wife and I are very stable and happily married. And we hunt or fish for something year around so there's no timing it with kids.

Come to ask about wing shooting turkeys and get marriage advice, I love Rokslide

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Awesome, great you gave her some time to get out and kill some turkeys too while she is on maternity leave.

Have a good one