What game bird do you hate/depise the most?

[KurtR]

I’d love to take the guys that hate turkeys on an eastern hunt, just the bird vs your calls. There is nothing like it. I’ve never hunted turkeys out west, but I see guys kill them outside of blinds without bows every year with regularity. I’ve been trying for almost a decade to kill an eastern with a bow, no blind and no decoys, in the spring. It’s a tall order.

If eastern turkeys could smell like a deer, they’d be next to impossible to kill with a shotgun and calls.

Honestly, most all other bird hunting sucks when you don’t kill birds. Turkey hunting is the only bird hunting that’s still enjoyable when the birds win.


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So going on a hike and carrying stuff around. At least if I go pheasant hunting I don’t get covered in ticks and get to watch the dogs work if I just want to walk around and not kill anything.

 

[fatlander]

So going on a hike and carrying stuff around. At least if I go pheasant hunting I don’t get covered in ticks and get to watch the dogs work if I just want to walk around and not kill anything.

There’s no going on a hike and carrying stuff around for turkeys east of the Mississippi. The east is small and flat outside of Appalachia and that’s still small compared to the Rockies. It’s a pocket full of calls, and playing a chess game with the bird. Some of my most memorable turkey hunts haven’t been the hunts where turkeys died. I’ve killed a pile and watched a bigger pile die.

They’re difficult to kill when you play the game at their level. Sticking a solid decoy out or crawling behind a fan isn’t playing the game at his level.

I firmly believe they (heavily pressured easterns) are more difficult to kill, with a bow, without decoys and a blind, than mature whitetails and mature elk, combined.


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[flathead#2]

I gotta agree, Eastern Public Land Turkey is not the same as a western one.
Taste pretty good too.

And Coots for me as the most worthless, barely edible game bird.
And there's lots of em.

 

[Live_weighT34]

That’s easy, doves. You couldn’t give me another dove to eat or hunt.

 

[Taudisio]

I have been chewing one this for a while. Definitely a common merganser. They fly fast, but they aren’t very acrobatic so it’s usually pretty straight. They eat fish so they need to be thinned out for the trout’s sake. Smell like a rotten pile of fish. Ugly. I don’t think I’ve ever had one land in the decoys, just buzz by. They are at least as heavy as a mallard, so you have to carry that back to the truck without getting the mallard meat. I can’t think of a positive thing to say other than, they fly fast. My dog doesn’t even like them.

 

[Ucsdryder]

Most frustrating… wild chukar. Not even close.

 

[Kurts86]

Turkeys because just mentioning them summons a legion of SouthEasterners explaining how great they are to hunt and all the unwritten rules of chasing them.

I do enjoy turkey hunting but I’ve had enough of NWTF shows and discussing the birds with the losers of the War of Northern Aggression.