JAKES

[Harvester]

How many people will let the jakes walk and hold off on a longbeard. Willing to eat tag soup. I will for sure.

 

[lung-buster]

If it has a beard its getting some lead their way. I popped a hen with a 7in beard a few years back.

 

[Harvester]

If it has a beard its getting some lead their way. I popped a hen with a 7in beard a few years back.

I would like to get a hen with a beard. Thats pretty cool.

 

[Harvester]

Killed a double beard last year one beard was 5 inches long and the other was 3 1/2inches long. Pasted on the longer bearded bird (10 inches) because I wanted the strutter. The beards came out at the top of the feather line, right below the waddles. The beards were side by side not in the normal above below position.

 

[nate17]

Never killed a jake. I dont have anything against anybody that wants to shoot one, I have just found it to not be too much of a challenge the places that I hunt.

 

[Bertman]

Nothing gets a free walk by.

 

[Lawrence]

LB for me

 

[bvoss]

Not shooting jakes. The only person I will let shoot a jake is a kid or a hunter that has never killed a bird before.

 

[buckhorn40]

I have only hunted one year (last year) and I killed my first long beard. I could have killed a jake at 25 yards later on in the season and passed. I wish I would have smoked him.

 

[tickweed]

Nothing wrong with jakes,but LBS for me.

 

[Setterman]

I will not shoot jakes, period. I come from a state where they are illegal, and have zero desire to kill them. IMO, they are for newcomers and kids to harvest, folks who have a few LB's under their belt should be patient. However, if someone feels like killing them, then that is their personal choice.

 

[WingNut]

I usually let the jakes pass, but sometimes its just to tempting to let em have it.

 

[bowfire]

Lbs until the last few days if i haven't had any luck.

 

[sellsman11]

BOOOOOOOM!!!

 

[Devin2009]

jakes eat good....not a tough........besides i cant eat the beards......thats the only reason i shoot them.......i would rather hear the gobble anyways.......but if one comes in range hes dead....but i have no problem shooting one.

 

[Anonymous]

I hunt a lot of public land. Jakes can be just as tough to kill as longbeards. I kill either. Love to eat that fried turkey.

 

[mcclain]

longbeards only for me.i wont shoot a jake on the last day.but nothing against people that do.

 

[mathews338]

never killed a jake , long beards only but there are so many turkeys to each his own i say

 

[VolDoug]

I have, and might again if I feel like it.

I'd much rather kill a gobbling jake that knows how to play the game; than a sneaky, hush-mouthed 2 yr old that tries to slip in.

 

[Baxter83]

I've passed on some and I've shot one.....I don't know what I'd do until I do it. :grin:

I prefer a longbeard, but I'll take what I can get sometimes. I just try to enjoy the hunt and don't worry about the little stuff. Heck, if a jake comes in gobbling and you lose your excitement because he doesn't have a 10" beard then you may need to find a more exiting hobby like skydiving or something.