shooting fall turkeys from a permanent blind

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shoot them with a suppressed rifle if legal in nd it is here
 


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I personally still prefer to still hunt (move/sit, move/sit, call, etc)

I was involved in the old deer drive style in college (Dickinson) and I hated every minute of it.

There’s something about blinds and feeders that still bothers me a little bit, but it sure results in fewer gimpered deer etc I imagine (better shot placement). I have never shot a deer or a turkey from a blind or tree stand - yet.
 

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I could run out there and shoot one for you, then see if they come back?
 

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I agree, we would hunt them North of Killdeer on some of the ranchs there. We would shoot them off the manure piles or feed bunks in the mornings and they were back that afternoon.

I know everyone is dying to know ... so I'm going to ask. How did those turkeys taste that were shot off the manure piles???
 

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Ha ha ha. Interesting question.

Probably as good or better than "truly wild" turkeys - since manure is chock full of bits of grain/corn/etc. Also - tons of good bugs live in and under patties or in manure piles.

I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to eat birds that get their chow from cow patties. I wonder if those people with incredible tasting ability could actually tell?
 


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Ha ha ha. Interesting question.

Probably as good or better than "truly wild" turkeys - since manure is chock full of bits of grain/corn/etc. Also - tons of good bugs live in and under patties or in manure piles.

I wouldn't hesitate for a moment to eat birds that get their chow from cow patties. I wonder if those people with incredible tasting ability could actually tell?

But nowhere as good as my lutefisk dinner in Granville last night or next Sunday's lutefisk dinner in Bottineau will be!!! One more lutefisk dinner in California when we get back and then no more lutefisk for 2018.
 

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I wish I had developed a taste for lutefisk - it would be fun/tasty to attend such festivities.

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it's one of an extremely short list of things I don't like to eat.

Don't hate it... just don't like it.
 

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Seeing hundreds of turkeys perched upon manure piles and scratching through both fresh and firm bovine "plops" all over feedlots looking for undigested kernels of whatever feed the cattle have been given, makes me glad the Wild Turkey isn't our Nat'l bird.

FWIW, I'd eat 100 shit-picking turkeys before I'd eat just one lagoon sitting waterfowl.
 

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If the turkeys don't come back just drive the backroads out there. I could have shot a couple dozen right from the road. They were all over. Seriously I doubt they will mind if Tom dies one night and Tom 2 dies the next they don't seem like the brightest bird on the planet.
 

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#galwhoshootsprettygood

not a single pellet below the neck

10" beard

plucked it

plan to eat it at Thanksgiving

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yes - they are indeed pretty stupid

I had previously only called them in spring- they weren’t very stupid then
 

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do turkeys react to a call like they do in the spring? I have never hunted them in the fall but have been thinking about trying it.
 

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How about that, look at that hunting puddle. He even retrieves turkeys, lol. In all seriousness, after three days in the field with my 1 year old Brittney, whom might ad is a fur ball compared to the last one, we'll be taking the scissors after him this week to get all of the briars, cockleburs, and hitchhiker seeds out of his hair. Already spent probably 2 hours and we're maybe half done. Some of those are nothing but a giant matted ball of hair and seeds. First time I've ever seen any of my dogs this bad. Can't imagine the mess I'd have with golden retriever, English setter, or that hunting machine above!

Good on you with getting your 80ear old mother and wife out on some turkey's!
 


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do turkeys react to a call like they do in the spring? I have never hunted them in the fall but have been thinking about trying it.

apparently it’s a common tactic to scatter a bunch of toms, then call to them as they try to regroup

supposedly quite effective
 

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Guywhofishes--- hunting your wild turkey from the stand again? I have a group that ranges from 6-26 birds at the new house that comes in about every other morning, so I put in for a Unit 98 Tag and am hoping to arrow one from by back porch.
 


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