Out of the blue today I get a PM from the administrator lecturing me on advocating taking longer than 40 yard shots on turkeys and threatening to ban me. Really ugly note. Was news to me because I have never violated this policy at Old Gobbler. I PMed him back asking him to show me where I had ever done this at that website and was instantly banned.

Is the guy that runs that place psychotic? Weirdest s### I have ever seen. But you guys can count me out of the contest over there I guess. Sorry to let you guys down but I sure as hell did nothing at that website to warrent this. If it's still possible to search my posts under this same user name I invite you to do so and see if I ever did this or spoke a harms word to a soul over there.

have you tried to log in since the pm to see if you are banned?

Seems to me like he always takes offense when anybody says anything about Nitro hulls sticking and primers backing out too. He'll probably ban everybody over there that likes hevi-7's.
They give away some good stuff over there and I've learned alot from reading the handloading forums, but the website for the most part is pretty goofy anyway.

I noticed they go to great links to go on record that they don't recommend shots over 40. Kind of weird though because most of the posts in regards to guns, sights, patterns, etc. are about getting the best pattern so that you can kill turkeys at 50 yds.

I'll join the Alabama team if they need another member...

That's got to be the stupidest thing I've heard in a while. Certainly the dumbest to.getbanned for.

Hell, if they did that here there would be no reason for a turkey forum at all! Ha! How gay.... I guess everyone should pattern their gun at forty and not a step further?? I may pattern mine at 400 tomorrow, that don't mean I would shoot one that far. I've also killed turkeys too far to be shootin, does that mean everybody else is gonna do it since I did? Are people really that easy to influence....well I guess some are.

Wow!

That's crazy! Who gives a rats arse if you wanna shoot one at 75 yards? It's your bird that is getting boogered up. With the advancement in technology in today's turkey loads, the old 40 yard lead shot is now 50 yards. My dad still shoots lead and will not shoot one past 35 yards but I'll bust ones ass at 50 all day long.

I will check on this to be sure and get back shortly.

Ya'll are a man down already and haven't even got started. TEAM ALABAMA is going down!

>>>Is the guy that runs that place psychotic?<<

LOL, I don't know, I've never met him, but judging from some of the stuff he is posting I think he is on the verge of a nervous breakdown of some type.

I hadn't read there lately, and then somebody on here linked the article on the bad Nitro shell, so I went over there and read a little. I felt like I was a little child being lectured by a teacher. I tried to show him how irrational some of his censorship was, but could see that was getting nowhere fast. I suspect that I was right on the verge of getting banned myself, so I told him I would just drop it and if anybody wanted to talk to me, I'd be over on aldeer. And I told him that Skinny isn't in to censorship. So he probably meant to ban me and banned you instead , Todd.

As a show of solidarity with Todd, why don't we all boycott Old Gobbler? I hate to see somebody like that making a living off turkey hunters. If nobody else wants to get involved, I'll just put up a post that will be sure to get me banned with you, Todd. I figure a post about my theory that the 40 yard number comes from the Bible ought to work.

And I've never been banned from a web site before. It ought to be a fun experience.

preach on preacher

I have 2 or 3 times from the same one if you can believe that.

I am going to exaggerate my kill distances over there some this year just for spite now.

I agree, but the thing is that knowing how anal they are about it "I Have Never Advocated Shooting Beyond 40 yards; mentioned killing a bird beyond 40 yards; or openly challenged that policy in any way at that website EVER!"

No worries though. If that is the kind of insanity running that joint then I'll stick to aldeer.

Not that some of us aren't crazy here too but at least we understand each others kind of crazy. LOL!

Like I said hate it for the Alabama team guys over there but this was beyond my control.

I don't ever post over there, but I'm in on this!

Here's what always bugged me about that kind of stuff: To me, a guy that hunts in a river swamp without decoys where you can see 100 yards through the woods and calls a turkey up to 50 yards and kills him has done alot more as far as tricking a turkey goes than some guy who hides in a tent and shoots one at fifteen yards over decoys.
One guy is praised and the other one is chastised over there, but they're praising the wrong one in my opinion.

Before the leaves get on, there's a few wide open benches where I hunt that if I'm fortunate enough to call up a turkey on one of them, I'll probably have to shoot him at about 45 yards, unless I happen to find a stupid one who is willing to walk right towards a dark blob at the base of a tree when he can't see a hen anywhere. Back in the day before I started using HTL loads, I would just wait til green-up to hunt these places because it was so tough to get a turkey into shotgun range on them. With the technology we have now, I can hunt them and not worry so much about it. Does that make me a bad guy or unethical hunter?

Todd, I looked at the latest 2 pages of your posts, and this is the only mention I found of shooting beyond 40 yards:

>>>>February 27, 2012, 06:08:57 PM
I know you are getting slightly higher numbers with the blends and the 7's but brother let me tell you, if my 835 would put 211 to 218 Hevi 13 6's inside 10 inches at 40 yards my searching days would be over. That should easily maintain a killing pattern to 50 yards and those Hevi 6's will kill that far too.<<<<

If he banned you for that, then he is really losing it. And since it was nearly 2 weeks ago, he must be going back thru every post that everyone has made to try and find any mention of the magic 40 yard number.

But posting pics of a bunch of dead hens is perfectly ok with him; just don't dare mention shooting a turkey at 41 yards.

The arrogance of not only him, but several other moderators, turned me off completely from the site a while back. It wasn't that way when he started out several years ago. I guess a little success has changed things. Maybe he has forgotten that the only reason his site became popular in the first place was because posters got fed up with the censorship on the nwtf site.

An excellent post! Especially to be coming from a bammer.

Or perhaps the bust on federal?????

But I don't see that either.

Wow, so complimenting a guy on his pattern got me banned? Sheesh what an A-Hole.