Gila
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and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.
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Post by Gila on Apr 2, 2008 16:04:31 GMT -5
It can actually be dangerous in my opinion to have any red or orange, blue, or white on your person or around you when hunting because it's too easy for people to think it might be a gobbler. One of the old rules we follow here is to make sure you don't have any of those colors on you're body so someone doesn't mistake you for a gobbler and shoot you. There are a lot of really big fools out there each year.
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Post by klsm54 on Apr 2, 2008 16:26:14 GMT -5
Up here in the land of greedy and overzealous turkey hunters, there are regular hunter shootings.... In the fall, when rifles and shotguns are both legal, they make you wear an orange hat and vest(a minimum of 250 square inches) while moving, and you have to have a minimum of 100 square inches, visible 360°, displayed within 15 feet of your position when stationary, usually a tree band. In the spring, when you have to get closer to kill a guy with just a shotgun, ( and they do) they only require an orange hat when moving and suggest, but don't require, something like a tree band while calling. Frankly, I don't trust the idiots, so I always tended to keep the hat on, or at least hung nearby. I've told the stories before, maybe on the old site, but I know way too many people who have been shot, and who have shot other hunters, too take chances on safety. No turkey, or any other game animal, is worth getting shot over...
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Gila
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and a Vernier sight. It's marked up to twelve-hundred yards. This one shoots a mite further.
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Post by Gila on Apr 2, 2008 16:32:09 GMT -5
Oh geez, I can't imagine it being legal to use a rifle... that adds a whole new picture.... Whew, never even thought about that... That's an accident getting ready to happen.... Sorry for my ignorance.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Apr 2, 2008 16:37:07 GMT -5
Let me rephrase A turkey is capable of seeing an orange hat but they're aren't going to care.
I've never heard that blaze orange can be mistaken for a turkey's head.
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Post by bounce on Apr 2, 2008 17:15:16 GMT -5
Yeh, you gobble, they shoot, you move, they shoot, your dead, they "Oh Sh*t."
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Post by Jack on Apr 2, 2008 20:19:30 GMT -5
A few states allow rifles for turkeys- I know Texas used to, maybe still does. Virginia does, or did, too. 20 years ago or so, I was camping in the Shenandoah Valley in the spring, and I went into a sporting goods store. They had racks full of Savage combo guns in 20ga/222. And tons of 222 FMJ ammo. (I'd never seen a 222 FMJ factory load) I asked what that was for, and they told me that rig was very popular with turkey hunters.
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Post by Purebred Redneck on Apr 3, 2008 8:23:52 GMT -5
I think in the midwest, south, and eastern states rifle hunting would be a disaster. I'm sure the 22cal centerfires are very popular and possibly the 243. But knowing these Daralecks around here, they'll use their 30-30's and 30-06 I think rimfires would be ok - 22lr, 22mag, 17hm2, 17hmr. I'd support that.
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Post by Bill on Apr 3, 2008 8:44:25 GMT -5
South Dakota, Montana and Wyoming are three more states that allow rifles to be used for turkeys. I talked to one guy that is from SD and I asked him how he hunts turkeys and what he says is he just drives around until he spots one and then shoots it with his Praire dog gun. I always gave my brother in law hell when he lived in South Dakota and called him the road hunting king. ;D Now that he lives in Kansas he has learned how to walk. ;D
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