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Post by lenapej on Apr 22, 2022 15:38:57 GMT -7
Our season started on Monday, so far no turkeys on the property that I can hunt, I have heard them on the neighbors place but they avoid my spot like the plague! I plan to spend most of the day out tomorrow wearing out my wingbone to try and entice them over. I have wondered about period calls as well, and have not run across any references to them, but as Spence mentioned they did not have game laws and most references that I have read have them shooting them out of the roost or some other means which is now illegal.
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Post by spence on Apr 22, 2022 16:36:32 GMT -7
Here's a typical description of turkey hunting, by Daniel Trabue, Westward into Kentucky, on the Kentucky frontier 1778-80:
“There was a prety moon light night. After we got things pritty well settled I said,”We have 2 good Dogs. I know mine is an exception for game. Let us go out a hunting.” All of the men refused. I told negro Jo to take his axx. I took my gun and off we went, and in going about 200 yards wheare some of these men had been out a hunting I saw 5 turkeys in one sycomere tree over the creek. I mooved to a place where I got the turkey between me and the moon. Drawed my sight and killed one, and loaded and fired until I killed all 5 of the largest fatest Turkeys that I had ever seen.”
Another, later:
Sage, Rufus B., Rocky Mountain Life, or Startling and Perilous Adventures in the Far West During an Expedition of Three Years (1846) [trek was 1841-43]
"My experiments in turkey-hunting made me a proficient shot by moonlight, a feat which adds materially to the sport. This is done by maneuvering so as to have the turkey in a direct line between the marksman and the moon, causing its shadow to fall on his face---then, raising his rifle to a level from the ground upwards, the instant the sight becomes darkened he fires, and, if his piece be true, seldom fails to make a center shot. The most feasible mode of hunting turkeys is to watch their roosting place at night; and, after the moon attains the required position, they may be killed by dozens in the above manner. They rarely leave their roosts on account of the firing; but remain, half stupified with affright, while they are picked off one by one by the practiced hunter."
Spence
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Post by Sicilianhunter on Apr 23, 2022 4:42:05 GMT -7
"I also have a small turtle shell that I someday hope to turn into a slate call." -BrokenNock
I would like to see a tutorial on that project. I have a turtle shell that it probably too big for that and have no idea what to do with it just yet but I'd like to see your turtle shell slate made in the event I secure a likely candidate myself. GOOD HUNTING!!!
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Post by brokennock on Apr 23, 2022 4:53:50 GMT -7
Interesting accounts. Thank you.
Things and animals do seem to change. He says that they stayed on the roost even after firing at them commenced. I have had turkeys fly off the roost in the dark over my head. No idea they were there, startling to say the least.
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Post by brokennock on Apr 23, 2022 5:01:17 GMT -7
"I also have a small turtle shell that I someday hope to turn into a slate call." -BrokenNock I would like to see a tutorial on that project. I have a turtle shell that it probably too big for that and have no idea what to do with it just yet but I'd like to see your turtle shell slate made in the event I secure a likely candidate myself. GOOD HUNTING!!! I'm not sure when, or if, I will get to that project. Mostly a time and lack of work area issue. Other factors, and some may be germane to others attempting this.. Obtaining a good piece of slate,, the correct thickness and close to the correct size. How to secure it to the shell? I can only think of modern epoxy type adhesives. Big one. Finding out if the shell I have can get me in trouble with wildlife laws. Some turtle/tortoise shells,, like an unusually selection of bird feather types,, are illegal to possess. I'd hate to put in the effort to make the thing and have it confiscated. I too would prefer a smaller shell that what I have. At least more shallow. Still looking. I'll try to post a couple pics of it.
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Post by Black Hand on Apr 23, 2022 5:23:13 GMT -7
I suspect that a judicious application of heat will allow you to mold the shell around the slate and fix the slate in place. Making the slate a little larger than the space and heat-molding the shell around it may work.
And yes, check on the shell type and potential legal entanglements.
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Post by Sicilianhunter on Apr 23, 2022 5:41:35 GMT -7
I can understand the concern about wildlife laws surrounding certain items with no claims to Indigenous spiritual legality. I've caught flack for feathers myself but ironically never from an official... Not sure if it would affect the tonality of the slate but you could drill holes in and figure out a way to use rawhide, tied on wet and then dried to secure it to the shell. I wouldn't apply heat to the shell though, the scales can delaminate themselves...ask me how it know
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Post by brokennock on Apr 23, 2022 6:34:05 GMT -7
Found this in early December, of 2020 I think, might have been 2021, many of the bones and all. Just sticking up out of the leaf litter. Hopefully I selected the correct pics, can't see them here until I click post. Those are the ones I wanted. Hopefully the roll of tape gives a size reference.
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Post by hawkeyes on Apr 23, 2022 9:17:51 GMT -7
Found this in early December, of 2020 I think, might have been 2021, many of the bones and all. Just sticking up out of the leaf litter. Hopefully I selected the correct pics, can't see them here until I click post. Those are the ones I wanted. Hopefully the roll of tape gives a size reference. Very nice shell. Do that little fella justice and get to work on that call!
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Post by Black Hand on Apr 23, 2022 10:25:25 GMT -7
Cutler's resin should work to hold the slate in place.
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Post by hawkeyes on Apr 30, 2022 18:06:06 GMT -7
Anyone having any luck because I sure haven't had an ounce of it...
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Post by Black Hand on Apr 30, 2022 18:15:36 GMT -7
Haven't been out at all....
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Post by brokennock on Apr 30, 2022 19:07:47 GMT -7
Nope. Only got out once, and not for long. Once again, just as the season started the spring weather we were having turned back to late fall. Cold and very, very, windy. So windy calling seemed ridiculously pointless. I'll be back out Monday morning (no Sunday hunting here) at least for a few hours.
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Post by hawkeyes on May 1, 2022 4:58:53 GMT -7
Nope. Only got out once, and not for long. Once again, just as the season started the spring weather we were having turned back to late fall. Cold and very, very, windy. So windy calling seemed ridiculously pointless. I'll be back out Monday morning (no Sunday hunting here) at least for a few hours. Essentially the same situation here...
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Post by lenapej on May 1, 2022 11:22:28 GMT -7
No luck here either, calling seems to do no good to the few I've heard on the neighbors.
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