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Chucky
| | Posted on Friday, March 01, 2002 - 10:55 am: | |
A friend says is it unethical for a hunter to hunt or shoot turkeys from areas adjacent to a park. I have a chance to hunt on private ground , legally, But it is next a park boundary. Do any of you hunt next to national,state parks, the Shenandoah or Blue Ridge Parkway on private areas? Are your turkeys tainted, or unethically taken, in your view, because of this location? |
GN
| | Posted on Friday, March 01, 2002 - 11:29 am: | |
A buddy of mine is pretty much in love with a place he hunts next to a park in sw Va...they enjoy the hunting there abnd it is productive. He climbs mountains before daylight just like me every day up there so I guess I do not begrudge him the "easier" birds.... A turkey is a turkey , meaning they can still see and spoke from movement and hear bad calls and go the otherway, and it takes skill to take one anywhere. 2 cents. (p/s- having said that, one friend when he gives me a report on the hunts up there does not give the boys much credit for the birds they take. Hard to tell whether it is jealousy or criticism for some reason. |
TScottW99
| | Posted on Friday, March 01, 2002 - 12:02 pm: | |
if it is private property beside a park oh well. I see nothing wrong with it. (as long as it is an ethical hunt, legally and such) would be no differn't than finding a prime piece of private property that is quite large (1,000 acres or more) that no one else can hunt but you... the turkeys might be less pressured but there still wild turkeys... who's to blame you for having such a great place to hunt. some of the better elk areas I have heard out west border the yellowstone park. (my 2 cents) |
Willsb
| | Posted on Friday, March 01, 2002 - 12:54 pm: | |
In Tennessee and Florida they have draw or quota hunts in wildlife management areas. Places that are only hunted two days a week, maybe ten days a season,depending on size of the area. It is not a park. The turkeys in some of those areas are some of the hardest to take. And there is very little pressure on them. |
turkeypicker
| | Posted on Tuesday, March 05, 2002 - 12:28 am: | |
Chucky: Definitely...definitely unethical for you to shoot those birds...but since I'm a non-resident I have that as a handicap, and can therefore lower myself to come up and help you thin out the overpopulated longbeards in the flock. Just give me directions to the spot and written permission. Just kidding man! Only thing wrong with that description is it doesn't involve me. |
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