Taboo???
01-09-2007, 09:22 AM
#1
Dominant Buck
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Taboo???
In NC....we don't have a turkey season that runs concurrently with a deer season. Therefore.....there's no chance you could be deer hunting from your treestand and have a turkey come by and legally take it. We have (in select counties) a winter "either-sex" season.....but all deer seasons are "out" when this occurs.
So.....around "here"....it's taboo to hunt turkeys from a treestand. I didn't say people here were "right"....."above" anyone ....or any of the like. I said it was taboo. People "here" have the mindset that this accomplishment (the taking of a turkey) is somehow "lessened" since the hunter was: 1) likely not hunting turkey as his primary prey and 2) was in a treestand.
I don't have a stance. I think hitting a turkey with an arrow is a feat! I also see where the purists who think they should be taken from the ground could have their stance.
Baiting is legal in NC.....and there are those who feel that practice is taboo. I can understand that, too.
I didn't start this thread to debate ANY topics. I did so as to not hijack a thread that was already started. I'd just like to hear some of the things (regional, national, local) that people fell are "taboo" re: hunting. No explanations needed.....unless you want to. No rebuttals required, either.
This COULD be fun.....and funny.....to see how different we all are.
Thanks.
So.....around "here"....it's taboo to hunt turkeys from a treestand. I didn't say people here were "right"....."above" anyone ....or any of the like. I said it was taboo. People "here" have the mindset that this accomplishment (the taking of a turkey) is somehow "lessened" since the hunter was: 1) likely not hunting turkey as his primary prey and 2) was in a treestand.
I don't have a stance. I think hitting a turkey with an arrow is a feat! I also see where the purists who think they should be taken from the ground could have their stance.
Baiting is legal in NC.....and there are those who feel that practice is taboo. I can understand that, too.
I didn't start this thread to debate ANY topics. I did so as to not hijack a thread that was already started. I'd just like to hear some of the things (regional, national, local) that people fell are "taboo" re: hunting. No explanations needed.....unless you want to. No rebuttals required, either.
This COULD be fun.....and funny.....to see how different we all are.
Thanks.
01-09-2007, 09:26 AM
#2
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: May 2004
Location: Albany, NY
Posts: 4,679
RE: Taboo???
Taboo or not, if I have a nice gobbler walk under me and I have a tag in my pocket for him and it's legal, I am letting the air out of him every time. I like turkey meat too much to let them walk, and also you ever try and draw on a turkey out of a tree? Not as easy as you think.......
01-09-2007, 09:31 AM
#3
Join Date: Oct 2006
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RE: Taboo???
i actually have never shot a turkey out of a tree stand, i've got plenty fromt eh ground, every time i try and draw on one from a stand i get busted. Turkeys are always looking up... many predators come fromt eh skies...i would almost say it is harder to get one from a stand.
01-09-2007, 09:35 AM
#4
Typical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2006
Location: NH
Posts: 854
RE: Taboo???
Here the fall turkey season runs concurrently with the archery deer season. One of my goals afew years ago was to take a gobbler with my bow. I had been seeing a bachelor group of toms roosting on this one hillside. I set up on those things (in tree stand, as I still had a deer and bear tag to fill) and got busted every single time. I moved stand locations to try to get them earlier/later, you name it...I couldn't get a shot at them.
As far as taking them from the tree, I consider taking a turkey with a bow a feat...probably harder from a tree stand as opposed to a ground blind. I finally got my first gobbler with the bow this year...I was on the ground walking to my tree stand.
As far as taking them from the tree, I consider taking a turkey with a bow a feat...probably harder from a tree stand as opposed to a ground blind. I finally got my first gobbler with the bow this year...I was on the ground walking to my tree stand.
01-09-2007, 09:36 AM
#5
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Dec 2003
Posts: 3,913
RE: Taboo???
Taboo in my area includes:
Shooting a doe with fawns.
Shooting a buck thats not a wall hanger.
Shooting a roosted gobbler after 7am. Its legal after 7am, and very difficult, but extremely frowned upon.
All are legal, but the local know-it-alls look down on all of the above, unless its them doing it.[&:]
Shooting a doe with fawns.
Shooting a buck thats not a wall hanger.
Shooting a roosted gobbler after 7am. Its legal after 7am, and very difficult, but extremely frowned upon.
All are legal, but the local know-it-alls look down on all of the above, unless its them doing it.[&:]
01-09-2007, 09:39 AM
#6
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: NC
Posts: 6,764
RE: Taboo???
ORIGINAL: GMMAT
In NC....we don't have a turkey season that runs concurrently with a deer season. Therefore.....there's no chance you could be deer hunting from your treestand and have a turkey come by and legally take it. We have (in select counties) a winter "either-sex" season.....but all deer seasons are "out" when this occurs.
So.....around "here"....it's taboo to hunt turkeys from a treestand. I didn't say people here were "right"....."above" anyone ....or any of the like. I said it was taboo. People "here" have the mindset that this accomplishment (the taking of a turkey) is somehow "lessened" since the hunter was: 1) likely not hunting turkey as his primary prey and 2) was in a treestand.
I don't have a stance. I think hitting a turkey with an arrow is a feat! I also see where the purists who think they should be taken from the ground could have their stance.
Baiting is legal in NC.....and there are those who feel that practice is taboo. I can understand that, too.
I didn't start this thread to debate ANY topics. I did so as to not hijack a thread that was already started. I'd just like to hear some of the things (regional, national, local) that people fell are "taboo" re: hunting. No explanations needed.....unless you want to. No rebuttals required, either.
This COULD be fun.....and funny.....to see how different we all are.
Thanks.
In NC....we don't have a turkey season that runs concurrently with a deer season. Therefore.....there's no chance you could be deer hunting from your treestand and have a turkey come by and legally take it. We have (in select counties) a winter "either-sex" season.....but all deer seasons are "out" when this occurs.
So.....around "here"....it's taboo to hunt turkeys from a treestand. I didn't say people here were "right"....."above" anyone ....or any of the like. I said it was taboo. People "here" have the mindset that this accomplishment (the taking of a turkey) is somehow "lessened" since the hunter was: 1) likely not hunting turkey as his primary prey and 2) was in a treestand.
I don't have a stance. I think hitting a turkey with an arrow is a feat! I also see where the purists who think they should be taken from the ground could have their stance.
Baiting is legal in NC.....and there are those who feel that practice is taboo. I can understand that, too.
I didn't start this thread to debate ANY topics. I did so as to not hijack a thread that was already started. I'd just like to hear some of the things (regional, national, local) that people fell are "taboo" re: hunting. No explanations needed.....unless you want to. No rebuttals required, either.
This COULD be fun.....and funny.....to see how different we all are.
Thanks.
01-09-2007, 09:40 AM
#7
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 106
RE: Taboo???
NC is all screwed up anyway. We are one of eleven states that wont allow hunting on Sunday. They put it to a vote and 48% were still in favor of the restriction. What the H is that all about.(Just my rant) Hunting turkey out of a tree stand is no different than sitting in a ground blind. It's probablly a little harder getting drawing back in the tree than in a blind.
01-09-2007, 09:57 AM
#8
Fork Horn
Join Date: Aug 2005
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RE: Taboo???
Taking a Turkey out of a tree stand is very difficult. I have done it 4 times but it's very hard to do. They can see you flinch from a long ways away.
It's easier to take them from the ground then it is a tree.
MC
It's easier to take them from the ground then it is a tree.
MC
01-09-2007, 10:14 AM
#9
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Inverness, MS
Posts: 3,982
RE: Taboo???
I can guarantee it would be harder from a tree than from a ground blind.... These double bull blinds are changing the way turkey hunting is done.... I hate to see it happen.... Just seems under handed to me....
01-09-2007, 10:43 AM
#10
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: North Lima Ohio & Clarion Pa
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RE: Taboo???
Last year I was hunting from the ground in Pa..Deer and turkey (either sex)are in at the same time in the fall season. I had a Turkey, just before dark roost in a tree above me. I had a clear shot and could have easily made the shot. Now even though it's illeagal to shoot a roosted bird..No one would ever know right?? Wrong..I would have known ..and walked away. <Sigh>
I could also tell a tale of the time I was in Texas and shot 3 hens (on purpose) with 1 shot from a shot-gun. It was on an outfitted hunt and the rancher wanted young hens specifically for camp food.I know..I wouldn't believe you either if you told me this..but I was swear it's the truth!
I literally had to hold out for only 3 hens in the same sight picture..I pulled up several times only to have jakes or Gobblers or too many hens in the way..
I could also tell a tale of the time I was in Texas and shot 3 hens (on purpose) with 1 shot from a shot-gun. It was on an outfitted hunt and the rancher wanted young hens specifically for camp food.I know..I wouldn't believe you either if you told me this..but I was swear it's the truth!
I literally had to hold out for only 3 hens in the same sight picture..I pulled up several times only to have jakes or Gobblers or too many hens in the way..