Ok, this is probably a pretty silly question to be asking, but ... hey, it's the off-season, so what the hay?!?! We don't have anything better to do now but discuss silly stuff, right??
You know the old saying, "If turkeys could smell, you'd never kill 'em". Well... What if they *COULD* smell? How would YOU go about killing them? I've got some thoughts/theories, but ... curious to hear what you'd do different, if turkeys did have the capability to smell/wind you.
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BGD
I'd use a .223 and shoot them from 200 yards away.
First, I would change my username...
make a ton of money marketing hen cover scent.
Quote from: dejake on January 12, 2015, 01:28:37 PM
make a ton of money marketing hen cover scent.
HA!!! :)
go fishing
I guess i'd have to buy all the Scent-Lok gear and one of those Ozonics contraptions. Mr TV big buck hunter says I cant kill big deer without out so I'm guessing turkeys would be the same.
In all seriousness i'd do the same thing I do deer hunting..................play the wind.Then I would proceed to kill some turkeys and not kill some turkeys,same as deer.
A bird that could smell would probably be closest compared to coyotes. There smart and tough to hunt but when you pay attention to the details you can get it done.
Go fishing in the springtime.
Hit them with a car.
Hunt them downwind
Well, I'd scout harder trying to locate the dumb ones.
Quote from: stinkpickle on January 12, 2015, 12:38:16 PM
First, I would change my username...
Quote from: dejake on January 12, 2015, 01:28:37 PM
make a ton of money marketing hen cover scent.
:TooFunny: :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Punt :TooFunny: :TooFunny:
Good one there StinkPickle! :TooFunny:
You'd have to hunt them like elk and play the wind. That would make an interesting dynamic to calling and maneuvering on birds.
I'm just glad they can't smell. I spend enough time trying to keep my deer gear scent free.
I would wear a bright yellow poncho, douse myself with Mazola and act like a corn pile.
Quote from: shaman on January 13, 2015, 04:51:57 PM
I would wear a bright yellow poncho, douse myself with Mazola and act like a corn pile.
Now we're talkin'!!!! haha
22-250 or 22-250
Bring the 270 and buy a bunch of scentlok.
Flyfish for trout more than I do now. If turkey's could smell you would never kill one. :o
Quote from: yelpaholic on January 12, 2015, 03:12:02 PM
go fishing
First thing that came to my mind.
Although staying down wind of a turkey is easier then getting downwind of a deer. Atleast you usually have a direction. But if they circle its over.
Quote from: jakesdad on January 12, 2015, 04:57:19 PM
I guess i'd have to buy all the Scent-Lok gear and one of those Ozonics contraptions. Mr TV big buck hunter says I cant kill big deer without out so I'm guessing turkeys would be the same.
In all seriousness i'd do the same thing I do deer hunting..................play the wind.Then I would proceed to kill some turkeys and not kill some turkeys,same as deer.
My thoughts too..I mean it works for deer, so guess it should work for turkey.
Hard up for entertainment? Ok, I'll bite. I believe it was Fred Bear that said "if the wild turkey had the nose of a whitetail deer we would rarely legally kill one" feel free to correct my quote if there are others here even old enough to remember Fred in his glory days. It was the highlight of the school year when one of the teachers would roll in the projector and we were treated to one of Fred's latest adventures. (I'm talking early 70's).
Quote from: born2hunt on January 12, 2015, 07:27:04 PM
A bird that could smell would probably be closest compared to coyotes. There smart and tough to hunt but when you pay attention to the details you can get it done.
This is probably the closest thing to how it would actually be. Lots more busted set ups and calling from down wind. it would probably mean that many states would allow rifles and/or roost shooting to accomidate the degree of difficulty and maintain harvest numbers.
If a turkey could smell then a woman could be quiet..one thing we all are glad doesn't happen and the other we wish it would. :TooFunny:
Start toting a rifle!! :z-winnersmiley:
a deer's best defense is its nose and a lot of deer get killed every year, so i think we'd figure it out
but if deer could see and were as paranoid as turkeys, we might have a problem there ;D
Boy that would be a tough hunt. But to be honest, deer have messed me up multiple times in the spring because they could smell me when I was working birds. I still spray myself down in the spring .
I'd have to change locator calls.
Sounds like elk hunting during the rut. Stay down wind......period, and maybe post the shooter downwind of the set up. It would just take a little more thought for the setup.
If it would send the masses out fishing .......... I wish they could smell.
I would have started hunting them :lol:
Much like bowhunting deer, I would probably quickly get tired of the 1,000 steps that I take to be "scent free". I would then take up fishing and golf until deer season.
I'd sit here at the house and watch 'Golden Girl' re-runs with the wife.
.338 lapua.
Shower more often.
I'd shoot them in the nose...
Quote from: guesswho on January 30, 2015, 08:49:31 PM
I'd have to change locator calls.
Now that's funny
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Quote from: bamagtrdude on January 12, 2015, 12:05:38 PM
Ok, this is probably a pretty silly question to be asking, but ... hey, it's the off-season, so what the hay?!?! We don't have anything better to do now but discuss silly stuff, right??
You know the old saying, "If turkeys could smell, you'd never kill 'em". Well... What if they *COULD* smell? How would YOU go about killing them? I've got some thoughts/theories, but ... curious to hear what you'd do different, if turkeys did have the capability to smell/wind you.
GO!
Interesting question, have often thought that myself. If they had olfactory sense, the only option would be the same as white tail. Get up in a tree stand and wait. :fud: It would help me quit smoking for sure! :OGani:
BGD
Quote from: jblackburn on January 12, 2015, 12:22:16 PM
I'd use a .223 and shoot them from 200 yards away.
:smiley-char092:
Good choice, wish we could here in TN. If that were legal I could tag out in a week. :drool:
it would give me another excuse....the wind shifted and he caught my scent :lol: