Aquaholic
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You also dont have to force your personal beliefs on anybody else.....
Just saw a commercial
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woodsman87
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Not the way turkey hunting should be. I am glad that I do not even know anybody personally that hunts like most new age hunters.
Fanning doesn't bother me, decoys do not bother me, blinds do not bother me.
What bothers me is people who get in blinds and sit there with their avian x decoys waiting for turkeys to come into a field to shoot.
The object may be to shoot a turkey, but I have more respect than to sit in a chufa patch or what have you with blinds and decoys. Turkeys are not like deer, they do not become nocturnal, they cannot circle a food plot and check the wind. They have very small brains, and I assume they aren't very smart. Therefore it isn't difficult to fool one with a decoy set up in a cow pasture.
What makes turkey hunting difficult the correct way is finding a bird that gobbles, setting up on him, and trying to call him up. It goes against their instinct to come looking for the hen. That's why you must use natural cover, ridges, knolls, hills, ditches, and the like to move with, and to set up in or on, so that gobbler sticks his head up with 40 yards of your set up and then you shoot him.
When I was a kid, there were no blinds or decoys used, if there were I never heard or seen of them. We turned out alright, and all the turkey hunters that I associate with turned out alright. No matter if it is south Alabama open pine plantation birds, or up here in middle Tennessee with rolling hills of cow pasture, or north east Alabama and east Tennessee with huge mountainous hardwoods.
We were all successful at killing turkeys. And we are the ones still hunting In the rain, wind, cold, hot, pressured or end of season birds, when the wanna he's have folded up their blinds, put away there decoys, and quit.
I also hate and despise the fact of purposefully killing hens, beard or no beard, fall or not. It does nothing good for the population.
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Fanning doesn't bother me, decoys do not bother me, blinds do not bother me.
What bothers me is people who get in blinds and sit there with their avian x decoys waiting for turkeys to come into a field to shoot.
The object may be to shoot a turkey, but I have more respect than to sit in a chufa patch or what have you with blinds and decoys. Turkeys are not like deer, they do not become nocturnal, they cannot circle a food plot and check the wind. They have very small brains, and I assume they aren't very smart. Therefore it isn't difficult to fool one with a decoy set up in a cow pasture.
What makes turkey hunting difficult the correct way is finding a bird that gobbles, setting up on him, and trying to call him up. It goes against their instinct to come looking for the hen. That's why you must use natural cover, ridges, knolls, hills, ditches, and the like to move with, and to set up in or on, so that gobbler sticks his head up with 40 yards of your set up and then you shoot him.
When I was a kid, there were no blinds or decoys used, if there were I never heard or seen of them. We turned out alright, and all the turkey hunters that I associate with turned out alright. No matter if it is south Alabama open pine plantation birds, or up here in middle Tennessee with rolling hills of cow pasture, or north east Alabama and east Tennessee with huge mountainous hardwoods.
We were all successful at killing turkeys. And we are the ones still hunting In the rain, wind, cold, hot, pressured or end of season birds, when the wanna he's have folded up their blinds, put away there decoys, and quit.
I also hate and despise the fact of purposefully killing hens, beard or no beard, fall or not. It does nothing good for the population.
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woodsman87
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Turkeys aren't deer, you cannot manage them like deer.
Its never going to change though. Its sad to say that we are a dying breed. I remember a year or two ago setterman started a post are we a dying breed. Yes we are. Its like big business deer hunting has bled over Into turkeys. Folks like REN, Roost, Spur, and setterman and others are no longer the "cool" turkey hunters, and no longer the way turkey hunters grow up being.
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Its never going to change though. Its sad to say that we are a dying breed. I remember a year or two ago setterman started a post are we a dying breed. Yes we are. Its like big business deer hunting has bled over Into turkeys. Folks like REN, Roost, Spur, and setterman and others are no longer the "cool" turkey hunters, and no longer the way turkey hunters grow up being.
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mathews338
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I do turkey hunt but I agree it can be very easy at times. Last year I went 6 times and killed my 4 birds and a total of about 8 hours spent in the woods. All killed by running and gunning, calling and sitting by a tree ( Settermans way ). If you are lucky enough to sit up on a 2 year old and can barely use a call have skill enough to sit still and move slowly when needed you can kill turkeys and to me is much easier than sitting in a blind with dekes out in a huge field which at times will require you to have a ton of patience.Aquaholic":3mkokt98 said:
Use what style you want to because it all requires some form of skill and all can be easy or hard at times!
