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For the survivalist that has everything legal and not so legal dept;




Get an old box bed spring set, with the old coils springs, find it in a junk yard or still with the covering on it at a yard sale .

Burn off the covering, leaves you with just the old box springs.

Take it too your favorite turkey hunting spot, drop it on the ground.

Get a bucket of corn feed, cracked corn is best, dump it on the box springs, should fall to the ground inside the perimeter of the bed coils.

Go home.




Come back the next day about noon, take your favorite 22 pistol/rifle. The box spring set will be loaded with a bunch of birds. Their necks stuck in the coil springs. Shoot the stupid birds, pluck/clean them and fill your freezer.




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Thank you.

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That is a horrible, terrible, highly illegal suggestion. Thank you very much.

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if TSHittingTF gets as bad as myself and others think if may

people won't even consider if it's legal or not

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I wish we had wild turkeys in the UK - I love turkey breast for quality, low fat protein.

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Wild Turkey is considerably different from domestic Turkey. The breast on a wild turkey is almost dark meat.
I had all but forgotten the Turkey trap, thanks for reminding me. It goes hand in hand with the fishing tricks, like a burlap bag half full of black walnuts tossed in the creek.

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How dose this burlap bag work MM??


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Wow.........


I never heard about that before...... why is the state busting chomps over something like that (sound simple) ....... if enough people do it dose it mess up the stream or something???


T

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I love hearing methods like these! (so effective they're illegal)
question to both methods....
have you personally tested.....i mean.....witnessed someone ELSE testing them to good effect? When i hear these, i always wonder that......
for the turkey trap....do you know what makes them unable to pull their heads out of the coils?
for the tannic acid fishing....i would assume it has to be a fairly low flow stream for this to work, no?

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Mtnman, I may disagree with you on SOME issues, but the more of your posts that I read (and Agamemnon's) the more I wish we were neighbors!

We have thousands of wild turkeys here in the PacNW, and I live within two miles of a large river and a great fishing creek. I even have an old box spring out in the shed that I was going to haul to the dump, and a neighbor with a walnut tree. Thanks to you guys, when TSHTF you can bet I'll be serving plenty of fish and turkey! Thanks.

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[QUOTE=mtnman;Look at a bed spring, the coils get smaller at one end. Push your head through and you can't pull it out./QUOTE]

Not only that, but turkeys are incredibly stupid...or at least the domesticated species is. I tried raising them years ago. Out of 10 turkeys, three of them drowned in their 3" deep water dish, two ate themselves to death, and two of them crawled inside the feed sack and suffocated. One of the turkeys decided that our St. Bernard was its mother and drove that poor dog to distraction for weeks. Then one day the dog rolled over while taking a nap, and the demented turkey was no more. One of the birds that made it to (almost) adulthood tried to mate with our female mallard. Mallards mate for life, so the turkey was promptly killed by our male mallard. What a waste!

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Mtnmam, I've been lurking here for sooo long, and your little tricks and tips never cease to amaze me. I actually prefer the dark leg meat from our domestic turkeys, but I imagine the wild stuff probably tastes totally different.
Personally, grout and pheasant are my "easy shoot" favourite food, with rabbit coming a fair bit down the list - I love a good rabbit stew but sometimes you want something you can just dig into, whole, you know?
Venison, for me, beats ANY meat. I remember shooting my first deer with my father when I was 11, maybe 12, him hanging it up from a tree and bleeding it, then putting two stripes of it's blood down each side of my face. That's what his father did to him, and his Grandfather did to my dad. Your first kill, you wear the blood all day, was the tradition.
I was repulsed when he gutted it, but it taught me that meat doesn't just grow in a butcher's shop, it all has blood and guts involved - and since then I have never looked back. Venison steak cooked REALLY rare is something I wish I could eat more often, but there aren't too many deer on my land so Bambi steak is a treat.
I wish I could persuade them to breed better and faster... viagra hanging from trees or something... :D

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Haha, I think if my mum had heard my dad made me eat a bite of the deer heart, he would be strung up and eviscerated as well!
The law here is daft - I regularly hit pheasants, maybe once a month - but if you hit the animal, then taking it home is technically poaching. The car behind you, however, can pick it up and that is legal as they didn't hit it.
If I hit a pheasant, it's with my Passat - which knocks the heads nearly off them. And so I go back and get it. Which makes me an evil poacher, haha.

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Wow.........


They swarm like that for dear??.........I guess that would make sense as it is good eating for many moons.


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Thanks for this gem! One question: Since the acid comes from the hulls, can't we remove the (ripe) walnuts and just stomp on the hulls?

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I'll back him on this. I've seen it happen more than once. A deer gets hit and the next few pick-up trucks pull right over, and if the deer isn't completely dead yet, someone will whip out a knife and finish it quickly.

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For the record, your honor, absolutely not.

Yes, I do.