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Turkey Hunting boom!
Started by Izzyjoe, February 03, 2015, 09:21:58 PM
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Izzyjoe
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February 03, 2015, 09:21:58 PM
I was just curious, but when did turkey get real popular? I know years ago a lot of hunters just used what they had, but when did companies start making turkey hunting gear, guns ,ammo ,and other stuff?
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February 03, 2015, 09:26:13 PM
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: February 04, 2015, 09:42:10 AM by jwhunter
In 80's you started seeing interest in turkey hunting. There were not many turkeys in the area before then in North Alabama.
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February 03, 2015, 09:29:42 PM
Seems like in the last 10 years it's taken off.
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February 03, 2015, 10:05:57 PM
Past 2o to 25 years. As popularity increased so did the market for turkey themed products.
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February 03, 2015, 10:18:20 PM
I can remember back in the mid 70's there were very few turkey hunters. I met the late Dick Kirby in Western OK on the ranch next to ours. He gave me a few diaphragm calls...those were the first I had seen of them...we always just used box calls. Sure has come a long way since.
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February 03, 2015, 11:29:19 PM
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February 04, 2015, 09:41:33 AM
Lots of turkey "killers", few hunters..
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February 04, 2015, 09:44:11 AM
Kirby, Gulvis, Butski, Salter and many more have been chasing birds when most of us have been a glimmer in our old man's eye.
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February 04, 2015, 09:54:33 AM
I think it can be traced back to the N"WTF"
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February 04, 2015, 10:28:06 AM
I don't know, but I wish it would stop being so popular. Too many people out in the woods that have no business being there. Same thing is happening with predator calling.
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February 04, 2015, 10:37:57 AM
I would say the 80's, my mentor started hunting them in the early 70's and he said back then he would be the only person on thousands of acres of public land hunting them. I too wish it would quit being so popular, maybe I'm selfish but I just dread the thought of another hunter hearing a turkey I'm hunting gobble. Just me!
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February 04, 2015, 11:07:39 AM
Seems like in got popular here when TV "hunting" became popular,then every wanna be TV host was chasin turkeys.Seems like the popular wears off after a couple days especially if the weathers bad or gobblers "arent acting right".You know call shy and that whole line of crap.Dont see near the turkey hunters as I do deer hunters tho and hope I never do.
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February 04, 2015, 01:22:26 PM
I tend to think that the marketers created the demand, rather than the other way around.
"[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey. Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer." Ken Morgan, "Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game
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February 04, 2015, 01:30:34 PM
I never saw another turkey hunter in western NC until about 1985.
Now every Tom, Dick and Harry that watches TV is out there screwing stuff up....
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February 04, 2015, 01:45:49 PM
When I started hunting in the late 60's to early 70's everybody hunted rabbits and ring neck''s. I hunted fall turkey's long before I hunted in the
spring.in
central pa at that time there was lots of turkeys and no one hunting them. My dad and I would be turkey hunting and all we could hear was the beagle's down in the bottoms. It sure isn't that way any way anymore, all thou there is not the fall hunters as spring hunters . Ther is not as many turkeys either.
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