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<blockquote data-quote="Southern Sportsman" data-source="post: 4878363" data-attributes="member: 10399"><p>It's "frowned upon" by many in a trophy-seeking way. Like LBL said, akin to people questioning someone for killing a spi or young buck. Everybody wants to kill a big gobbler. Jakes are generally more plentiful and CAN be more gullible and thus easier to kill. So shooting one is sometimes viewed as a lesser accomplishment and it takes out a bird that could have been a hard gobbling 2 yr old next year. At your stage of turkey hunting, ignore ALL of that. Enjoy the kill, cherish the memories, and eat him with pride. I suspect you will eventually get to a point where you pass jakes, but absolutely nothing wrong with a new hunter killing one. </p><p></p><p>On a bigger scale, some would prefer to limit jake kill for biological reasons. We kill a really high percentage of gobblers in TN. Too many. Jakes generally cant breed, so letting them make it to 2 yrs old ensures a we have a new crop of gobblers to breed the hens next year, since many/most of the adult gobblers around this spring will be dead by next spring. But the population can definitely sustain some jake mortality, and young or new hunters are the perfect candidates to kill a few. </p><p></p><p>Congrats!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Southern Sportsman, post: 4878363, member: 10399"] It’s “frowned upon” by many in a trophy-seeking way. Like LBL said, akin to people questioning someone for killing a spi or young buck. Everybody wants to kill a big gobbler. Jakes are generally more plentiful and CAN be more gullible and thus easier to kill. So shooting one is sometimes viewed as a lesser accomplishment and it takes out a bird that could have been a hard gobbling 2 yr old next year. At your stage of turkey hunting, ignore ALL of that. Enjoy the kill, cherish the memories, and eat him with pride. I suspect you will eventually get to a point where you pass jakes, but absolutely nothing wrong with a new hunter killing one. On a bigger scale, some would prefer to limit jake kill for biological reasons. We kill a really high percentage of gobblers in TN. Too many. Jakes generally cant breed, so letting them make it to 2 yrs old ensures a we have a new crop of gobblers to breed the hens next year, since many/most of the adult gobblers around this spring will be dead by next spring. But the population can definitely sustain some jake mortality, and young or new hunters are the perfect candidates to kill a few. Congrats! [/QUOTE]
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