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Post by Mars on Apr 27, 2008 8:20:52 GMT 12.75
Shot another jake this morning but did not recover it. It flew off but we heard it fall and crash through a laurel thicket and slide in the leaves but we couldn't find it. Dang laurel thickets!
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Post by Toby Benoit on Apr 27, 2008 14:28:51 GMT 12.75
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Post by Snake Eyes on Apr 27, 2008 19:56:18 GMT 12.75
Shot another jake this morning but did not recover it. It flew off but we heard it fall and crash through a laurel thicket and slide in the leaves but we couldn't find it. Dang laurel thickets! Mars, Boy,I know how you must feel! It can be very frustrating when you fail to recover game that you know you have hit. It happened to me once with a doe while deer hunting. Left a blood trail Ray Charles could have followed for maybe 100+ yards and then poof,no more sign . Very frustrating!!! snake-eyes
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Post by Mars on Apr 28, 2008 6:18:09 GMT 12.75
I'm sure a bear,coyote,fox or coon enjoyed the turkey dinner last night. For the numbers of animals I've killed over my lifetime the number of unrecovered animals is only a fraction of a percent but I still don't like killing an animal and not finding it. I called it in but it busted us at about 30 yards out but wasn't sure what we were so it was standing there doing the "put-put" thing. I told my daughter to shoot but she said she didn't have a decent shot so I shot it. I knew I had to hit it as brush exploded all the way around it but it flew up and I fired another round at it. We heard it crash about 80 yards away. No mistaking that it fell and not landed because of the racket it made going through the laurels then hitting the ground with a thud and the sound of it sliding a little in the leaves.(mountain side) We looked for about 45 minutes with no sign of it and we decided we both had enough of the laurels.
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Post by Mars on Jul 27, 2008 18:40:36 GMT 12.75
I put my daughter and myself in the draw for fall turkey permits. I'm trying to get a place a few miles down the road to hunt. Seems he was out planting corn this spring and had to stop to kill the turkeys following his tractor and eating the seed corn.
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Post by Paws on Jul 28, 2008 0:40:39 GMT 12.75
I put my daughter and myself in the draw for fall turkey permits. I'm trying to get a place a few miles down the road to hunt. Seems he was out planting corn this spring and had to stop to kill the turkeys following his tractor and eating the seed corn. So why aren't you helpin' plant corn?
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Post by Mars on Jul 28, 2008 5:07:34 GMT 12.75
Because around here if you "volunteer" for a farmer on one job then before you know it you have a tobacco knife in hand and staring at a 10 acre tobacco field and the farmer behind you saying there's another 3 fields when you get this one done. ;D I'll do anything on a farm but not tobacco work again unless my family was starving. In Tn. only the landowner can kill to protect his crops unless he reports the damage, files a claim, designates a "hunter", TWRA inspects the damage, approves the hunter and sets the specific animals that are to be removed.
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