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

 

[Gravey]

Unfortunately some have no regard for game laws. If this is public land contact the WMA manager. If private I'd ask who else was hunting it and ask the owner if he was aware they were baiting. Good luck and hope it works out for you.

 

[ImThere]

Maybe the put it out for there opener?

 

[Setterman]

I am starting to believe a lot of juvi birds are killed over bait, you hear all the time how folks feel you have to make it as easy as possible for the kids. I also feel that roughly 75% of the birds killed on opening day are killed over bait. It's an epidemic and the blind/decoy craze has only fed into it being used more.

 

[REN]

I am starting to believe a lot of juvi birds are killed over bait, you hear all the time how folks feel you have to make it as easy as possible for the kids. I also feel that roughly 75% of the birds killed on opening day are killed over bait. It's an epidemic and the blind/decoy craze has only fed into it being used more.

I agree with most of that but 75% is pretty high. I know lots of guys that do it legit and surely we are not in be minority.


Proverbs 3:5
"Trust in the lord with all your heart; do not depend on your own understanding"

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[Boll Weevil]

Maybe the put it out for there opener?

Still illegal. Cannot legally hunt that area until 10 days after the last kernel is gone. We're already inside the 10 day window.

 

[PalsPal]

Maybe the put it out for there opener?

Still illegal. Cannot legally hunt that area until 10 days after the last kernel is gone. We're already inside the 10 day window.

He was just mentioning that was the reason there was no one in the blind yesterday.

Tough call on whether to report it. If you do, there's a good chance you lose the property. Of course, you can't hunt it now anyway.

Baiting is widespread, but with the guaranteed kill that comes by using blinds and decoys, there really isn't any need !

 

[ImThere]

Maybe the put it out for there opener?

Still illegal. Cannot legally hunt that area until 10 days after the last kernel is gone. We're already inside the 10 day window.

He was just mentioning that was the reason there was no one in the blind yesterday.

Tough call on whether to report it. If you do, there's a good chance you lose the property. Of course, you can't hunt it now anyway.

Baiting is widespread, but with the guaranteed kill that comes by using blinds and decoys, there really isn't any need !

Maybe he thought the corn would have been gone way before now. Just saying there is two sides to a story. I don't know the area or people. you could be very well right on with your assumption I am glad nobody was in the blind with a kid because that would make me sick if a person is going to mentor a kid at least do it right

 

[GOHUNT]

Well, it was a very cold morning. Just because there was no one in the blind as of 8am (when we left) doesn't mean no one hunted it Saturday. Very possible that the guide/hunter decided to wait till it warmed up, or just a planned afternoon hunt, or Sunday hunt.....many possibilities.