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I'll also add that I don't step on the head unless his eyes are still open and he seems to be gasping for air or something. I don't sprint to the bird like I used to, but I get up and get to him quickly. When his feathers lay down is when he is done.

I've only been spurred twice, once I was stupid and picked it up while flopping. The other was pure accident, his spurs were so sharp and big that they gouged me just by picking him up and not being careful. I still wear that scar in the webbing between my index finger and thumb from that bird, but that's one of the scars I'm proud of.....


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Someone posted a video on this forum a year or two ago of a guy shooting one, and setting there talking about it and the turkey ran off and got away. In the video you can 100% see that the turkey is not dead!


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If you cut his spurs off, cut BELOW the spur, between it and the foot FIRST.
If you cut on top first it is much much MUCH harder to hold his foot to make the second cut.
Just sayin' :tu:

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Talked with a coworker this morning and mad me think of the above posts. He shot one yesterday evening at 35yds., bird was on the lip of a rise and collapsed, buddy could see his wings as he flopped but not the body. Walked over to grab his decoy and tuck it away, turned around and walked over to the gobbler......he said about 4-5 feathers were all that was there. He walked the whole property and searched all the thickets/brush piles. Nothing. ALWAYS GO TO YOUR BIRD FIRST. I bet my friend does from now on.
 

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