Turkey that you have called to that gobbles from roost tree and then flies to a tree within shotgun range is a justified use of deadly force in my book
But ask Preacher. He is the true authority on limb launching.
I'm an American citizen; the 5th amendment gives me the right to avoid self incrimination.
Roost shooting gets such a bad name because of the way turkeys have to roost in bunches in the west. There just ain't many trees so they roost in big droves. You can see then in the trees even at night. Guy I'm hunting with now was fussing about his last group of hunters from TN shooting up a roost and ruining it.
But as Ike said, one that flys up into a tree to check out a hen is cheating and deserves to die. I was about to shoot one around 10 years ago when he decided to fly up in a tree and look for the hen. That didn't work out well for him.
When we first got turkeys to hunt back in the 60s, the idea that you shouldn't shoot a turkey out of a tree had never occurred to anyone in our group. They shot them with rifles; why would you not shoot him in a tree?
It takes a while to develop a turkey hunting culture and get people to agree on the rules. Some places never seem to do that.
