Has Anyone Ever Hunted Turkey With A Luger?
 

I don't think Florida allows it! Although with 32 round drum I might injure it! Happy to All~~ Eric

Funny!!! :D

Is that a postcard???

I have hunted turkey with a T/C but not a luger. I have also hunted them with a bow & arrow. The real challenge to turkey hunting is bringing them in close enough to shoot with whatever weapon you select. For my next challenge I would like to try an air rifle, I have a Benjamin pellet gun from my childhood I want to use.

"google images" Its great for everything!!

I could have easily got one a few weeks ago when one walked across the range when I was shooting!

Veeeeery funny!

Have a nice Thanksgiving Day!

Not to forget 'The Great Marianas Turkey Shoot~~~http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9EBemu3T5o

Eric, I find your question highly offensive! I raised 200 wild turkey's this Summer..from little fluffballs to big 12-15 pounders! Hundred's of pounds of grain and at the end of Summer I heard them squawking like crazy! I looked out the leather shop and a huge mountain lion was chasing the flock! He/she was either young or stupid..you can't catch a turkey chasing it. They run too fast.

It sounds as though Jerry's turkey were tame ones. It would be difficult to get even one wild one from the mother hen.
I see the humor in Eric's cartoons.
I am a turkey hunter. It's about the toughest kind of hunting there is. Those birds are tough and smart and wily. Hunting them with a bow is a real challenge. It takes a lot of experience.
thanks
Jack

It sounds as though Jerry's turkey were tame ones. It would be difficult to get even one wild one from the mother hen.

Jack, Jack..you don't separate the Mother from the chick! You throw cracked corn out and wild animals come a runnin! Mother, chicks, Tom's. I guess you could call them tame but their wild as a March hare. They have to fend for themselves in Winter..I just help em a little to grow big and strong. I think a lot of them are taken by bob cats when a lot of snow is on the ground. Cats know they have to feed under trees where the ground can be scratched...

Do wild turkey taste different than Walmart ones...I hope!!! And I complain about tourists!!! The turkey almost became our National bird if Ben Franklin had his way!!!

Eric, I don't know..I have never killed one of my birds. I leave that to the tender mercies of a harsh Winter in the high mountains. I have heard from those who hunt and eat them..there is no white meat on a wild turkey?

You are a True Gentleman!!! I hate the Swanson turkey dinners!

I hate the Swanson turkey dinners! Eric, The picture on the box always looks delicious.

I also hated them!! You had to wait forever! Cold stuffing and burning cranberry sauce, cold potatoes was the norm!! They appeared during hunting season!!

Jerry, I read the words that you wrote about raising 200 fluff balls into adulthood. Never mentioned a single hen.
They really taste delicious. Plenty of white meat. If you look at a long beard and see the robust front he throws out for all to see - that is a large breast. And just as good eating as a tame one; must be cooked differently as they don't have fat. Best to cook with some knowledge as to get them tender as they are tougher birds than the tame ones.
thanks
Jack

Jack, HAHA! Yes true..I guess I raised the hen the year before! The toms..when they get very mature generally run together. Separate from the hens and chicks. They do an amazing transformation from a normal looking turkey to fluffing up, fanning out and turning all sorts of red and blue colors! They can really put on a display!

Plenty of white meat. That's good to know! I never plan on killing one but you never say never. Bringing them in to cracked corn is one thing but they are very wary and elusive in the woods. When I go on walks in the woods and fields you can't get near them.

Eric! Don't eat that dinner! it's from the 1960"s!

They are huge!
 

How old do they get?

Got plenty running about in my timber.
They can fly through brush you can hardly see through.
Hens lay a lot of eggs in big unprotected nests. They are heavily predated.
Most folks here just eat the breast as the rest is pretty stringy.
They mostly use the deep fryer method anymore.
Had a mess of bacon wrapped dove breast a couple evenings aqo.

Wild Turkey has a totally different flavor. Gives you a headache too.

Don't know about anyone hunting Turkeys with a Luger. Skeeter Skelton wrote an article in Shooting Times years ago about the Luger pistol. He said his old Rural Letter Carrier was a WWI Vet who used to carry an Artillery with the shoulder stock that he brought home.
He said he used to watch for Pheasants on his route, and shoot their heads off with it, out of the window of his rig.

I wonder was there ever a competitive luger shooting program anywhere?

Lots of them in Switzerland.

He said he used to watch for Pheasants on his route, and shoot their heads off with it, out of the window of his rig.
Now that would be some mighty fine shootin..

Actually someone did shoot a turkey with a Luger. The story is in the next thread after this one...84 Year Old Korean Vet Shoot Burgler With His German Luger,

Gary

Also significantly counter to most states' regulations! In NY state, for example, one is not supposed to discharge a firearm, or even load it--if hunting-- within 50' of the road, nor in a direction that would carry the shot down or across the road. Generally, shooting from a car is discouraged or illegal. I lived in Texas for a while and my impression is that the regs were a little more lax, based on my foggy memories of hunting stories there...

In which states is it permissible to stick the muzzle out the vehicle's window and blast away?

I thought this was valuable info! http://www.huntercourse.com/blog/201...-hunting-laws/

The first and last time I hunted and shot a squirrel with buckshot and it and it resembled a bad toupee. What is the hardest to hunt? What would be a hunters' dream? No luger required!! ~~ Eric.........

Jerry, that's how we shoot Grouse here. We hit them in the head with a .22 pistol or rifle, or a .17 HMR when we catch them picking gravel on logging roads. Once they fly off the road into the underbrush, they disappear.

Has Anyone Ever Hunted Turkey With A Luger?
 

(If I post this I'll git a whippin'. Hee Hee. I dood it anyway. :p)

I'll bet the gentleman who was just banned from the forum has done it.

Off a galloping horse;

Over the shoulder;

At 500 yds;

While reciting the 1936 New York phone book from memory;

Backwards;

In Greek.

(Oh, I'm a bad wittle boy!)

I'm ready for my spanking now, Sir.

Gunny John :bigbye: