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Just be sure it�s not a noose.


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Heavy sigh. Wings lost (again) to Ted�s Wild.

what is all this palaver about, can shoot turkey with this but not with that ?
What does it do for the turkey ?
What does it do for the hunter ?
What does it do for the state ?
What difference does it make in the real world if the turkey is shot with a 32 cal muzzle loader or a 32-20 Winchester ?

I do not live in U.S.A.

O.M

Never have seen a hockey game. If you are going to fight, just fight, screw the sticks and skates, and pucks.

Best,
Ted


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I can�t even skate. I was a Golden Glove. Dad said we could afford that.
That, and Track.

Shining fields at night is ilegal in Tennessee...reason being we had too many smart lawyers that thought they could just ditch their guns and get away.

O.M. most states are shotgun only.

After reading Henry Davis personal hunting diary I'm not sure if he was an authority on turkey hunting or a lawyer that that was an authority on writing....I lean towards the later.

Henry Davis wrote another book "Hunting with a .22" thats a really good read and has pictures of his custom rifles

No doubt the Henry Davis turkey book published in 1949 borrowed heavily in the way of turkey knowledge from this earlier 1914 book.

The Wild Turkey and Its Hunting� by E. A. McIlhenny.

This was the first book ever written on the sport and the tale of how it came to be reads like a murder mystery. While McIlhenny�s name appears on the title page, almost all the book was written by Charles L. Jordan a gamewarden that was killed by a poacher.

I believe he was shot in the back.

mr.Ted gets awnery when he finds out his engraving makes him cold.

Just trying to make some kind of sense to the regulation.

O.M

Moses, the restrictions on seasons, bans against baiting and guns used on turkeys was a push-back against the widespread slaughter of Eastern wild turkeys from a bygone era where the population was severely reduced to the point of elimination in most of its original range. Widespread trench baiting and year round hunting of wild turkeys wiped out turkeys in some areas. There were isolated pockets of good populations scattered throughout the Southeastern U.S., mostly in remote river bottoms or in the sparsely human populated rugged sections of the southern Appalachians. In the last four and a half decades, huge strides were made in repopulating turkeys throughout their original range and into areas where they didn't exist originally. This was made possible by the development of the cannon fired net and release of wild birds into suitable areas for population growth. Previous attempts of releasing birds hatched in hatcheries and then released into the wild were dismal failures. The reintroduction of wild turkeys throughout the US is one of great success stories in wildlife management. Not everyone in the US thinks this is good as in some areas, the birds are a nuisance. Not so where I live. Gil

From a historical perspective, Davis's book is a good book. I have hunted some of the Savannah River areas he mentions in the book. Much of the areas he hunted are now under square miles of man made lakes.
He hunted with rifles and shotguns. One of his favorite shotguns was a Greener. The owner of one of the places Frank has hunted here in Georgia reportedly paid $100,000 for the original manuscript and one of the author's wingbone calls. Gil