Originally Posted By: HomelessjOe
Just remember Stan you asked.....

What I did ethically and legally in a days hunt has little to do with the unethical and despicable thing your grandaddy did shooting into a covey of quail on the ground.

I'm a turkey hunter I don't hunt with decoys or blinds....I don't shoot turkeys off the roost or over bait. Nor would I ever shoot into a flock of turkeys.

Over the course of a day I shot each turkey individually on two different winter breaks with my turkey dog....fact is I had one get away I shot with the old Scott sidelock on the first set or I would have killed 6 that day and on the second break I could've killed the 6th turkey but chose not two. TWRA game and fish set the limits not me...because I tried to fill the bag limit doesn't make me a game hog.

Fact is any kind of hunting is better with a dog.

Fact is if you can't see what he did was despicable in any upland hunters eyes I can't make you see it....

Times were hard for some back then for sure my mom and dad said they never knew there was a depression....evidently he wasn't starving or too depressed if he had been he couldn't have afforded to purchase the supposed 6 or 7 seven shotgun shells to kill a meal of quail.

7 quail covey shot on the ground and 6 in the air with his trusty 97 Winchester was quite the feat....a regular Herb Parsons feat.

Did he drive a Winchester car ?

You want to brag...next time brag about something believable instead of an embellished excuse for shooting 13 of quail on the ground.

Just my observation...


Despicable, for sure. But not what someone said someone did 100 years ago, but the attack on it by Frank is despicable. Stan shared what someone told him about his grandfather and the third party may or may not have been there. The story wasn't retold by an old man to Stan to make him feel ashamed about his grandfather. It's obvious that the third party was only trying to remind him of his grandfather, someone who had a great impact on who Stan is today. Yet, Frank wants to pick, pick away at Stan about his grandfather. He couldn't let it just sit there without picking away. He wants Stan to acknowledge shame about what his grandfather did. What kind of man would do this about another forum member's beloved grandfather?
"My bet is that he shot all the birds on the ground" in an earlier thread comment is what Frank feels compelled to say as if he was there or knew Stan's grandfather. Now it's become Stan's grandfather shot them all on the ground. Frank, the Frank, we know from how he is here, often acts like a petty child with a clumsy cruel streak. It's before us all and it has been for years. If it's legal, then its ethical according to him, as to his shooting 5 turkeys in a day. Well, that's not how he feels about what others shoot at turkeys even if it's legal. Don't think for a minute that this attack is about Stan's grandfather's shooting quail on the ground. Frank always has an agenda behind his attacks and it's not his sanctimonious holier than though ethics attitude displayed here about the acts of a man who has been dead for close to half a century with the alleged acts 100 years ago. It's about a brewing perceived slight, a perceived "disrespect" that he feels Stan did to him in an earlier thread and only Frank knows what that was. There is no forgive and forget with him. I know exactly when his perceived "slight" was with me. I made efforts to apologize and make nice and deleted the comment. It was a wasted effort. He took it as weakness. Since then, it's been a pick, pick, pick away. More than one person here has occupied the space Stan sits currently with Frank, and the list is longer than his arm. He claims every thread ends with a "grandpappy" story. Obvious exaggeration, but it's no exaggeration to state that at least 4 recent threads have been locked or had comments removed because of what Frank said: pick, pick, pick away with each pick a little deeper. There's a good reason this is the only forum he visits, but don't believe for one second it's his choice. He can't go anywhere else where guns and turkeys are discussed. His story is out there, easy to find, and it doesn't end with a "grandpappy" story.