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A friend and I were talking about Hunting the other day. He is goods friends with a very well known professional hunter. He told my friend to buy crickets and put them out so my friend ordered 10000 and let them go and he said their are turkeys everywhere on his farm now!
 
Oh my Lord, this is either one of the worst troll attempts of all time, a joke, or something so stupid I can't believe I'm even responding
 
Hahahahaha. This sounds ridiculous, and I think it is, however, there could be a kernel of truth to this. In his book Illumination in the Flatwoods, Joe Hutto makes note of how well turkeys like crickets. When raising his turkey brood, he would release crickets into a large cage and the turkeys would enthusiastically run into the cage to eat them. If a particular field or area always had large numbers of crickets in it, I see no reason why a turkey wouldn't begin frequenting that area just like they would if an area had corn it in.

As for legality, "bait" is defined to include "any grain, or mixture of any ingredients, used as or for food purposes." An officer might write you a ticket if he could prove you released the crickets, but there is a good argument to be made that a cricket is neither grain nor a mixture of ingredients. How much does 10,000 crickets cost anyway?
 
Setterman said:
Oh my Lord, this is either one of the worst troll attempts of all time, a joke, or something so stupid I can't believe I'm even responding
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That's what I was thinking, just in case your serious, H$&@ no it's not legal
 
Not hard to prove it whe it was posted on here not to mention the type of crickets that you can buy for bait purposes are not native so there is another ticket
 
It works! Guaranteed to pull in birds from miles away.

The added benefit is if you can get good enough to do a cricket chirp on a mouth call or other type reed call, then you can foil the baiting issue bu using the call long after the crickets have been scarfed down. In fact, it is an industry secret that most, if not all, of the turkey hunting "pros", hunt in cricket-baited areas for their videos.

Now, it just so happens that I know a guy who sells crickets, and I can hook you up. Just let me know how many you need ;) !
 
Wow 20+ years hunting and every year I find something, that absolutely blows my mind.

1. C'mon man, like double down said, try hunting and if you fail, then oh well.
2. REALLY you're gonna buy 10,000 crickets???? :crazy:
3. The one thing that doesn't blow my mind is that the TV guys do it. Its not enough they have prime, low pressure farms to hunt, they have to bait to ensure an exciting episode.... :crazy:
 
The only justice to cricket baiters when caught would be to release 10,000 crickets into their house. After months of fumigation, no sleep from the chirping, and generally insanity from the scurrying of crickets maybe they wouldn't be dumb enough to have this idea again.

Seriously though, step back and think about this....in any given field there are thousands if not millions of grasshoppers and crickets right now. Why on earth would 10,000 more make any difference.

Cannot believe this is an actual question, and the op didn't laugh his "friend" out of the room when he brought it up.
 
Bone Collector said:
3. The one thing that doesn't blow my mind is that the TV guys do it. Its not enough they have prime, low pressure farms to hunt, they have to bait to ensure an exciting episode.... :crazy:
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Bone, I was joking :D !

BTW, I did a quick search, and this topic has been brought up on various forums going back a few years. Although, I didn't see anything where anyone actually claimed to have done it and had success.
 
It's pretty lame to feel the need to spend all the money on 10,000 crickets just to try and make turkeys go to one place! All you gotta do is listen for gobbles and head that way
 

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