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[Huntergrl]

well we do hunt from buggys.. so thats some what close..lolol

[XiBowhunter]

Highly illegal down here, Jen. No road hunting unless you do it on foot and then, you can't fire from the road, or across the road, you have to get ten yards off the shoulder.

That also brings up the question...why do you do it? I use my vehicle to scout, my primary scouting tool combined with a good pair of binoculars, but no road hunting. Surely the purpose is to kill a turkey, but is it for the table that you're apt to do so, or is it the hunt itself.

Turkey hunting here in the south is an institution and a practice of certain disciplines involved in the taking, or at least the attempt to take the bird. Our target is more the killing of a turkey via a disciplined hunting effort. Sort of like a mountain climber; is the goal the climbing of the mountain or reaching the top? If the goal is ultimately to reach the top, why wouldn't they just take a helicopter as opposed to the hours of sweat and toil climbing their way up there.

Road hunting of turkeys is akin to getting caught with five aces in a hand of stud poker, using wrigglers in a fly only trout stream, or swatting a covey of quail on the ground. It's surely a more expedient way of reaching the ultimate goal, ie a dead turkey, but in doing so, you really cheat yourself of the satisfaction of having played the game without slipping that extra ace into the deck, getting worm juice on your hands at the stream, or showering dirt all over the covey.

I reccommend calling them in. Not being critical of a legal practice in your area, mind you, but I really feel sorry for anyone not ever knowing the thrill of the hunt as I've experienced it so many times before. I really do wish I could share it with you...some day perhaps.

One reason why that style of hunting may be legal is the fact of the vast amounts of land in her area. Where I hunt, most land is locked to 500 acres or smaller, while out west, land can reach in the 10,000 acre mark or more. having a vehicle to spot a flock of turkeys, get out, and put a stalk on them may be a much better and more successful way of getting a chance at a bird. I am not condoning riding around, blasting #4 shot out of the cab of your pickup, but when you have thousands of acres to hunt, you have to be mobile and find the birds when and where you can.

[TobyBenoit]

Whacking one from the truck is illegal in every state where turkey hunting is allowed. But, she said she was jut kidding anyway.

Using a truck to spot them, then getting ahead of the flock and taking offf on foot to intercept them is what she really does and that's exactly the way to do it out there.

My one experience hunting in South Dakota, we road out and spotted them with binoculars and a spotting scope, then looped ahead of them by a mile and walked into a point to intercept. After an hour, they started answering my calls and the hens drug the gobbler in a big circle around me, so we got up and practically ran through a big fold in the ground to get ahead of them again and started calling really aggressive which drug in the hens and the tom followed, but stil out of range. The hens left and he circled out of range until they were out if sight and we were in the process of trying to gt aroundt hem and in front again when a gobble stopped us from the east, so we dropped where we were and six jakes camme in and started gobbling their heads off. At one point three of them were inside ten yards and the next thing I knew, the hens and the big tom came ambling in and the tom broke ranks and ran the jakes off bringing him inside thitry yards and he got to take a ride back to the motel with me in the back of my host's truck.

[Noc-Talk411]

Yes I use the truck to spot the game and then I do a spot and stock on them, now that is not all of the time but you do what you have to do when there is a lot of land to cover and you have 5 kids with you most of the time.

We actually took a ride on Sunday and found our turkey's right were we left them last year. They are waiting till we can come and get them!! We saw a huge Tom and all together I would have to say that there were about 200 birds there! I can't wait until April! I get to turkey hunt for my birthday this year!

[XiBowhunter]

Whacking one from the truck is illegal in every state where turkey hunting is allowed. But, she said she was jut kidding anyway.

Using a truck to spot them, then getting ahead of the flock and taking offf on foot to intercept them is what she really does and that's exactly the way to do it out there.

Yes, Toby....I KNOW that shooting out of a truck or road is illegal LOL....I was talking about what she said, using the truck to drive around and spot the birds.