Turkeys, cannabilism, and necrophilia

[Vulcan]

Had to share from another forum ( http://www.fishnhunt.co.nz/forum/YaBB.cgi?num=1236847089 )

Greendog308 vs Turkeys.
Yesterday at 9:38pm    Ah, the story continues...
up to part one hundred and fifty twelve now i think...a few more to go yet.

Blast and damn, we've had a swag of turkeys hanging round the ranch for a week or more , and to be fair, i dislike the friggers alot.
They're a pain in the bum mainly because they are here, and i have been hanging out to try out these 100 gr. round nose Hornadys for a while....
However, there has been the odd goat stooging about on my "other' farm too, so i've not wanted to disturb those stinkers too much by firing a barrage of shots off at them feathered friggers !

However, this morning was a cracker...i was up with the sunrise...slept in to be fair seeing as i didn't have to go to work...and whats the first thing i see?...(apart from Mrs. Dog getting out of the shower dripping wet....grrrr )...
yup, you got it Einsteins....a mass of frigging turkeys down on the flats pecking away at stuff, looking more and more like targets as the seconds ticked by.

Righto...into the hunting cupboard, drag out a few acoutriments: dvd cam, tri-pod, some bullets, the Harris 3 x extension swivelling bi-pod, and of course, the bloody wicked fantastic as frig....Mr. Sturm and Mr. Ruger's finely crafted M77 in .243 calibre....

(I hear a few sighs out there boys and girls, saying to me, "thank frig for that, he's finally going to let off a shot...!).

Well, yes, and after Scottydog txting me last week with an outstanding offer of $50 for the shooter, i too, thought i'd better make noise, cordite and speeding bullets from the sucker myself.

So, there they are. 10 Dumbarse Duncans slothing about on the flats just waiting to be blasted to hell and gone.
Set up the camera on the bi-pod and kicked it into motion....lined up on #1, let strip and a squillionth of a second later, Ka-boom-woomfa !
....and it was toast....spewed some more lead at a couple more, drilling one and giving it a fair old fashioned kick in the guts.
2 from 4 shots....not that good, but i was a little rusty...
However, i was outa bombs so had to do a dasher to the armoury...another swag of pills and i'm into it like a patrol in Afghanistan....

Blow me with a cheap Thai hooker tho, them turkeys are blinking cannibals...
Drilled  one and no sooner did its pulse stop then another was onto it, pecking its frigging eyes out.

Being an organ donor is one thing, but getting your eyes ripped out under general anaesthetic by ya mate turkey is a bit ridiculous....so he got a bit of Hannibal Leckter as well.!

All in all, i toasted 9/10, fired 12 shots, got 2 with one shot, and had 3 misses, and banged  an extra  round thru a dead bugger just because i could.!

All this without leaving the comfort of the front deck.

What a great country we live in...thats hunting on ya front doorstep right there !   

Hope you enjoy the vids if i can get the friggers on ok...otherwise it'll be a phonecall to Cleaky for a pre-amp.........

21 more sleeps til the ROAR !!!!!!!!

And the video:



If it isn't bad enough the buggers are eating their mates, watch the one that starts humping his dead mate   

[derelict]

Has nothing to do with cannalbilism or necrophilia......it's called "pecking order for mating".  Males travel in a group.  The biggest and baddest out of the group is the one who gets to mate, and during mating season he will constantly be fighting with the others to prove he is still in charge.  The rest also fight to establish the pecking order for the rest of the group.  You want to move up in line, beat the guy above you.  It's not uncommon at all for the lower member to pick a wounded superior to fight.  Anything to make his chances better  

And yes, I've seen a gobbler strut his stuff in the spring, putting Jakes in their place...and right after I shot him one of the jakes came rushing back and started kicking the piss out of him.  That one just won the right to inherit the harem since he beat the big boss!

[allaire]

And then promptly get shot cause you still had tags left.

[AWwrgwy]

So, he killed the turkeys because the bothered him?  Did he leave them there to rot as well?  More ammo for the PETA nut jobs.



wrongway

[Reschke]

Those aren't like the turkeys we have down here in Alabama. HEY turkey season starts soon down here; the two counties I hunt in are highlighted and bolded below. This will be the first year that I try to film one of my turkey hunts. Just to see if I can do it and not because I want to be on TV.

From www.outdooralabama.com

TURKEY: GOBBLERS ONLY—One a Day, Five During Combined Fall and Spring Seasons.

SPECIAL YOUTH HUNT, SATURDAY & SUNDAY PRIOR TO OPENING OF THE SPRING SEASON, IN ACCORDANCE WITH RULE 220-2-.119.

SPECIAL DISABLED HUNT ONE DAY PRIOR TO ALL OPENING DAYS.

Participants must meet medical requirements of regulation 220-2-.109

March 16 - April 30

SPRING SEASON: Autauga; Baldwin; Barbour; Bibb; Blount; Bullock; Butler; Calhoun; Chambers; Cherokee; Chilton; Choctaw; Clarke; Clay; Cleburne; Coffee; Conecuh; Coosa; Covington; Crenshaw; Cullman (see exception below); Dale; Dallas; DeKalb; Elmore; Escambia; Etowah; Fayette; Geneva (except south of AL Hwy. 52, east of AL Hwy. 167, west of Houston County line and north of the Florida line); Greene; Hale; Henry, Houston; Jackson; Jefferson; Lamar; Lee; Lowndes; Macon; Marengo; Marion; Marshall; Mobile (except south of I-10 from the Mississippi state line east to AL Hwy. 188 and south on AL Hwy. 188 to Coden, Alabama); Monroe; Montgomery; Perry; Pickens; Pike; Randolph, Russell; Shelby; St. Clair; Sumter; Talladega; Tallapoosa; Tuscaloosa; Walker; Washington; and Wilcox.

Cullman: Closed north of Lewis Smith Lake and north of Cullman County Road 437 and west of I-65.

 

April 1 - April 30

Colbert; Franklin; Lauderdale, west of US Hwy. 43; Lawrence, south of AL Hwy. 24; Limestone, north of U S Hwy. 72; Madison; and Winston.

 

April 21 - April 25

Lawrence, north and east of AL Hwy. 157 and west of AL Hwy. 33 and south of AL Hwy. 20; Lauderdale, east of US Hwy. 43; and Morgan, east of I-65.

Morgan County is not open to turkey hunting west of I-65.

[druski85]

So, he killed the turkeys because the bothered him?  Did he leave them there to rot as well?  More ammo for the PETA nut jobs.

It's ok Wrongway, the poster is a kiwi.  They aren't really people, after all.   

Also, turkeys are not cute or cuddly, so who cares right?    

[AWwrgwy]

It's ok Wrongway, the poster is a kiwi.  They aren't really people, after all.   

Also, turkeys are not cute or cuddly, so who cares right?    

To me, turkeys are usually found in the frozen section of your local grocer. 

Is he going to eat them?  Otherwise it's just killing.


wrongway

[Vulcan]

So, he killed the turkeys because the bothered him?  Did he leave them there to rot as well?  More ammo for the PETA nut jobs.

wrongway

They're not a native, considered a pest by some. Probably did leave them to rot, I do the same with hares. Native hawks clean them up, as well as pigs (though I generally through the carcass outta sight).

[allaire]

The Kiwis have a lot of problems with non native species it seems.

edited for spelling error

[Banshee7]

The guy in the film needs to learn how to shoot.

[Vulcan]

The Kiwis have a lot of problems with non native species it seems.

NZ is very light on any sort of natural predators for a range of species. So introduced species tend to dominate the local wildlife and usually have other area's of impact. The last significant predator we had was the Haast Eagle (think eagle capable of killing people) and it died out when the Moa population was wiped out from hunting.

So hunting of introduced species (goats, deer, thar, turkeys, hares, rabbits, stoats, weazels etc) is seen as beneficial. In area's where these are not hunting they flourish, and when they flourish farmers/govt turn to poisons/biological solutions. So which is better? Hunters like me and him tapping them now and then, or bulk poison drops?