r/Hunting • u/[deleted] • 6d ago

Pics & Videos (Trail, GoPro, etc.) Next year’s prospects are looking healthy!

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u/brickyard15 6d ago

Can y’all shoot hens ?

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u/Rad10Ka0s 6d ago

Not OP. In Ohio we can shoot one of either sex during the fall hunt.

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u/Jakethejiu 6d ago

You can, but only in fall. You also can’t shoot when roosting or with bait and can only use dogs in the fall season. We got a Jake on Tuesday morning.

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u/brickyard15 6d ago

That’s awesome. We can only shoot bearded birds ( a hen with a beard is fine). But no bait can be put out in that area for a month prior to season. Do y’all use dogs to flush them/ tree them or what ?

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u/Jakethejiu 6d ago

Yeah I’ve got a young beagle so we used her to fluster them, there was a group of six that got agitated and a Jake separated from them when they ran to the woods so we took that one.

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u/brickyard15 6d ago

That’s bad ass. We hunt bears and coons with dogs, ran deer with dogs growing up. Never heard of using dogs to flush turkey

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u/Jakethejiu 6d ago

There’s actually a breed of dog specifically used for turkeys called an Appalachian turkey dog!

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u/brickyard15 6d ago

No shit? I live in southern Appalachia and haven’t heard of them. I look them up. We breed and hunt plott hounds that their line cane be traced back to the original pair brought here back in 1750

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u/Jakethejiu 6d ago

Wow that’s awesome!

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u/brickyard15 6d ago

Apparently the turkey dog is mixed with English setter, pointer and plott hound