Originally Posted By: poorcountrypreacher
Originally Posted By: Dixiepatriot
This is interesting but I'm trying to figure out why I should care how old a turkey is.


I agree that it doesn't really matter - a longbeard is a longbeard. It's all about the quality of the hunt he provides.


I've had some quality hunts trying to get a lone jake to come in....

And I would have killed him if he'd not been so tough...

And I've killed jakes that I was very thankful for. I once passed on 3 gift jakes the last day of the season out of state while carrying a particular gun (Rem 1100 .410), and then went 0-9 on hunts with that gun (while I was about 50% with other guns during the same time frame) till I finally consulted with the jinx breaking experts here, followed that sage advice, and then broke the jinx with that gun when 3 jakes came in the next trip out. I wasn't about to exacerbate the jinx by letting 3 jakes walk again.

Then I sold it to make sure the jinx was gone forever.