baiting for your kid to kill a turkey?

[GOHUNT]

I know some folks would do about anything to help their kid fill their tag, but just how far should you go and just what is this teaching our youth? I ask this cause I took a young lady hunting opening morning of the juvi turkey hunt and the place we really wanted to sit had a pop up blind already there, so we moved to a different part of the farm. Upon daylight all the gobbling was up near the blind. The birds obviously moves further away from us and having not heard a shot, we moves back up to that area bout 45 minutes after flydown. Noone was in the blind, but there was corn everywhere!
The lesson my hunter learned was that you don't hang around a baited area long. Regardless of turkey activity.....we left.
Now I can't hunt there, one of my favorite areas, for at least a couple weeks. Bummer

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

Im confused, there was nobody in the blind, but you think they were baiting for the youth hunt? Sounds like they were conditioning the birds for the season opener, but who knows until you catch them.

Im glad you did the right thing, as hard as that is when you have a Yute in tow trying to get them a bird.

 

[cozy23]

Im confused, there was nobody in the blind, but you think they were baiting for the youth hunt? Sounds like they were conditioning the birds for the season opener, but who knows until you catch them.

This was what I thought also.

 

[Hawk]

One county I hunt you can hear the feeders cycling from pretty long distances and the turkeys hear them from even further. They get in high gear trying to get there before the bait is gone. Food plots with shooting houses. Bang! What a crock of turkey droppings.