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Boll Weevil

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I got tired of watching college basketball so watched a few outdoor shows and noticed that with strutter decoys once the tom sees it, done deal. In the timber for instance, the caller actually has him fooled before he hits the logging road 90 yards out but once he sees the deke, doesn't even call anymore and let's the fake close the deal. In fields they don't call AT ALL and in several cases the gobbler actually left his hens to die.

I don't watch many of these shows but this was absolutely eye opening and there's just no way plastic strutters don't represent an unfair advantage. No choosing the perfect setup so when the shooter sees the bird he's in killing range, no soft calling, no scratching in the leaves, no throwing calls behind or to the side to give the impression the yet unseen hen is "over there." None of that to ensure success and close the deal. To me the last few yards embodies the real essence of turkey hunting...and it's all lost when a strutter deke is used.
 
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I got slam beat yesterday. Struck a bird off the property, cut the distance and set up 20 y from a fence crossing. Got him fired up as all get out, he came to about 50y, I could feel his feathers shake when he gobbled, but he hung up on a blackberry thicket and couldn't figure out how to get through to the fence crossing. I could hear him spit and drum plain as day for another 10 minutes. Finally he decided to cut around the thicket by swinging 40 yards to his west. Just as he was about to clear the thicket, all the racket he made called in a real hen... and just like that, game over. I waited him out for an hour and a half more, but he never made another peep.

Sure would have been easy to stick a strutter in front of my face and flank him around the thicket if I had no qualms about trespassing or reaping.

But he messed up and let me know where he is... eventually he will end up in the hardwood creek bottom where I can hunt, then he'll be in trouble.

Watch the latest episode of 'Chasing Spring'.. you'll see just how far turkey 'hunting has come.
 
Exactly, however there are some still trying to convince us they don't work that well lol.

heck scroll down the page at the videos that have been posted by a certain hunter. Every dang video there's a plastic turkey. And every bird would've survived without those decoys due to his overcalling and poor setups.

add in a blind and it's completely absurd how easy it makes it.
 
Maybe this will help the archiogical society understand why American Indians wore feathers on their heads.
The images that portray the Chiefs usually include feathers, in the shape of a fan. They were the Facebook kings of their times, I betcha.
 
Boll Weevil said:
I got tired of watching college basketball so watched a few outdoor shows and noticed that with strutter decoys once the tom sees it, done deal. In the timber for instance, the caller actually has him fooled before he hits the logging road 90 yards out but once he sees the deke, doesn't even call anymore and let's the fake close the deal. In fields they don't call AT ALL and in several cases the gobbler actually left his hens to die.

I don't watch many of these shows but this was absolutely eye opening and there's just no way plastic strutters don't represent an unfair advantage. No choosing the perfect setup so when the shooter sees the bird he's in killing range, no soft calling, no scratching in the leaves, no throwing calls behind or to the side to give the impression the yet unseen hen is "over there." None of that to ensure success and close the deal. To me the last few yards embodies the real essence of turkey hunting...and it's all lost when a strutter deke is used.
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So a single tv show sealed your opinion?
 
ttf909 said:
I suck at Turkey hunting and will take the advantage if there is any. Man yall are some Turkey snobs
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I'm not really a snob about anything, just REALLY care for the resource and want it protected at all cost. Definitely want it protected over selfish human beings just wanting to kill one for the instant gratification and "look at me" glory that SM is breeding these days.
 
Andy S. said:
I'm not really a snob about anything, just REALLY care for the resource and want it protected at all cost. Definitely want it protected over selfish human beings just wanting to kill one for the instant gratification and "look at me" glory that SM is breeding these days.
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Do you get gratification from killing a turkey?
 
Andy S. said:
TONS under the right circumstances. Waaaay more gratification out of running hills and hollars "hunting" them and killing some here and there. I waaaay prefer to earn it than success be given to me with little hunting effort on my
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I understand you prefer to earn it and I 100% agree, I rarely rarely use decoys but I wouldn't dare try to steal someone else's gratification away just because I feel my way is the only way to attain said gratification. And if someone wants to post their harvest on sm so be it, they legally harvested a turkey, are happy about it, and who am I to look down upon them.
 

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