What's the Biggest Turkey Hunting MYTH????

[jarbo03]

That they will roost in the same tree. I would like to hunt where they do anything the same.

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[Eric Gregg]

When a gobbler answers you, he knows exactly which tree you're sitting at. Oh, puhleeeze. 

FullChoke

He may not know "exactly which tree" you're setting at but I bet my left acorn he can fly down to within 10 yards of where you're settin'!

I can testify to that from experience. Story too long for this thread, but I had one come right to where I "had" been sitting and cross only five feet from the tree. I watched it happen

[Byhalia]

When a gobbler answers you, he knows exactly which tree you're sitting at. Oh, puhleeeze. 

FullChoke

He may not know "exactly which tree" you're setting at but I bet my left acorn he can fly down to within 10 yards of where you're settin'!

   

[hoyt]

That they will... &...That they won't.

[ILIKEHEVI-13]

That Hevi-13 #7's are too small for turkeys and they don't have enough penetration at 40yds to kill one as good as larger shot.  I used to think that way, but now I know better. 

[gobblerhunter]

After reading all the replys, I have to agree with most due to experience.  I would like to touch on two.
First, I totally agree with ILIKEHEVI-13, I have harvested several birds at +40 yds with #7's.  In two cases, it was the second bird that ran after the first shot.  In the excitement, I don't check to see how far the birds were.
Second, myth about knowing where the call sound comes from.  On one occasion, I had three mature gobblers on the other side of a high fence.  I called them to within 5-10 yards of me, looking me straight in the face.  I let them walk down the fence about 100-120 yds.  I called them back, either 3 or 4 times.  Each time, they would return to the same spot, looking at the same tree, searching for the source of the call.  They knew exactly where the sound was coming from, down to the tree I was leaning against.  I was not hunting with a decoy, so they had no point of reference, only the sound.

[redleg06]

I Also think it' a myth when people say they shot a bird so hard "he didnt even flop"...

I've shot turkey at 5 to 10 yards and about blown their heads off and still seen them flop. I've also shot them at 40 yards and seen them never twitch...

[guesswho]

I missed!

[ILIKEHEVI-13]

I Also think it' a myth when people say they shot a bird so hard "he didnt even flop"...

I've shot turkey at 5 to 10 yards and about blown their heads off and still seen them flop. I've also shot them at 40 yards and seen them never twitch...

I killed one that didn't flop at about 18 yds. 

There wasa video on youtube a guy shot one up close and it never flopped or twitched.  I'll see if I can find it for ya. 

[ILIKEHEVI-13]

At 5:52 in this video you can see that this bird never twitched.  Shooting into them about head on up close like this seems to maybe be the only way to drop them stone dead. 

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[Duke0002]

When a gobbler answers you, he knows exactly which tree you're sitting at. Oh, puhleeeze. 

FullChoke

He may not know "exactly which tree" you're setting at but I bet my left acorn he can fly down to within 10 yards of where you're settin'!

I can testify to that from experience. Story too long for this thread, but I had one come right to where I "had" been sitting and cross only five feet from the tree. I watched it happen

If there's anything fairly consistent about turkey and turkey hunting is that a gobbler, even a jake, knows the location of a call or other noise.  They're so good at this that its spooky! 

[redleg06]

I Also think it' a myth when people say they shot a bird so hard "he didnt even flop"...

I've shot turkey at 5 to 10 yards and about blown their heads off and still seen them flop. I've also shot them at 40 yards and seen them never twitch...

I killed one that didn't flop at about 18 yds. 

There wasa video on youtube a guy shot one up close and it never flopped or twitched.  I'll see if I can find it for ya.

I'm not saying that its a myth because it doesnt ever happen. I'm saying that I dont think the flopping is a result of them being "more dead" because of a "hard hitting" load of (insert your favorite brand of choke tube or shell here___________).

I'm talking about a guy coming in and telling me that he shot that bird with "that hevi shot" or "Jelly head choke tube" and it hitting the bird so hard he "didnt even flop"...

I've shot turkey at various ranges with various loads and some of them were as direct of hit as you could ever make and the bird still flops. The opposite can also happen - not a ton of visible damage but the bird doesnt flop.  Both are dead and the flopping (or lack of) had nothing to do with the load or choke, past the extent of killing him...dead is dead....a flopping dead bird is just as dead as a perfectly still dead bird IMO.

[jwhunter]

you have to shoot 3.5 inch shells to kill one!!

[BrowningGuy88]

I missed!

[dcar_roll]

That a bird that just slept all night in the rain will not walk around anywhere after flydown except in an open field so his wings will not get wet!