Is this what 'reaping' is all about????

[ridgewalker]

I had an old buddy that would talk turkey with me years ago.I was in my 20's and him in his late 70's. He would ask "you had any luck luck" and if the answer was yes his next question would be "did you fool him".. He never wanted to talk about a turkey that you just killed if it wasn't anything other than a fair hunt. He had no respect for a bush whacker or a chufa field sitter etc. I can't imagine what he'd say to this new breed of fanning and body shots. I really didn't understand it way back then, but I totally get it now 25 yrs later. If you have to cluck to stop him from running over you due to fooling him it is a different thing than belly crawling in for an ambush or holding a fan amnd just walking up to him. I will say this the old man wasn't against making gobblers sounds to pick a fight, I realized at a fairly young age that his ego"gobbler" and urge to fight is even stronger than the urge to breed. The video of fanning makes that point pretty clear. Fighting purrs,your gobbles,the beat of a real wing were all exceptable to the old feller. Just my thoughts on it. I find mself now asking buddies "Did you fool him".Lol

 

[Spurhunter]

I had an old buddy that would talk turkey with me years ago.I was in my 20's and him in his late 70's. He would ask "you had any luck luck" and if the answer was yes his next question would be "did you fool him".. He never wanted to talk about a turkey that you just killed if it wasn't anything other than a fair hunt. He had no respect for a bush whacker or a chufa field sitter etc. I can't imagine what he'd say to this new breed of fanning and body shots. I really didn't understand it way back then, but I totally get it now 25 yrs later. If you have to cluck to stop him from running over you due to fooling him it is a different thing than belly crawling in for an ambush or holding a fan amnd just walking up to him. I will say this the old man wasn't against making gobblers sounds to pick a fight, I realized at a fairly young age that his ego"gobbler" and urge to fight is even stronger than the urge to breed. The video of fanning makes that point pretty clear. Fighting purrs,your gobbles,the beat of a real wing were all exceptable to the old feller. Just my thoughts on it. I find mself now asking buddies "Did you fool him".Lol

Love that story! This is a shining example of the real men and real hunters that passed it down to us and are spinning in their graves. They didn't need "pro staff" stickers or hashtags or to be called outfitter. They did it for the right reason. The love of the hunt. I don't believe this new generation of hunters even enjoys the hunt. It's a means to an end. That end being a Facebook post or YouTube video. Thanks for a great story.

 

[Jcalder]

Who cares if they're body shots? I ain't eating those birds


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[PickettSFHunter]

Saw on Fox News where some other fanners got shot in Kansas. Gonna be stupid, better be tough.


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[102]

Good grief. Shooting turkeys off roost. Sneaking up on turkeys, Crawling around trying to sneak up on a bird, now fanning, or reaping.

WHY NOT USE A RIFLE????

Learn to call, hunt, and play the chess game.

Ben Rodgers Lee must be rolling over in his grave!!!

Does anyone know how to locate and then call up a tom anymore???

 

[102]

Sometimes it takes me several days to figure out a bird and call it up.

 

[Mike Belt]

I have a lot of respect for old Ben... loved his turkey hunting seminars... but I suspect if he hadn't been the size he was he might have tried fanning. He tried almost everything else.

 

[BULL MOOSE]

If they will make a deer decoy that will do that, I will buy it.

 

[102]

I have a lot of respect for old Ben... loved his turkey hunting seminars... but I suspect if he hadn't been the size he was he might have tried fanning. He tried almost everything else.

Ben was a huge guy. HUGE!!!

He was one of the best bowhunters I ever met. I learned to hunt turkey from his audio cassettes.

"who cooks for you? Who cooks for you all?"

He used to say his daddy and he would get up and get out there, and owl hoot, then, when the turkey gobbled his daddy would tell him, "son, there is one of us too many standing here on this ridge!".

Died in a car crash after hitting the same bridge concrete his boy hit (and died) a few years before.

 

[BackwoodsBoy]

And y'all wonder I loathe this stuff and the breed of hunters who lap it up. Pathetic excuse for "hunting"

I concur. There's a difference (IMO) in using buffered plated shot, or camo, or calls than this decoy and reaping thing. I must confess that I used a strutter decoy last week when my buddy came to hunt with me. First time I ever used a decoy. He won it at a DU auction last year. The birds ran to the decoys with reckless abandon without looking left or right. Very very very easy and it took no skill whatsoever. I have taken many youngsters (sometimes with their dad), and they all get hooked when I take them, then they start watching YouTube videos and see virtually everyone using a strutter and go out and buy one. They have no idea how to call, no idea about turkey habits, no idea about woodsmanship. They look at me in awe almost, wondering how can I kill turkeys without decoys. Decoys are legal, but I just think they go over a line.

Agree 100%