Mojo Tail Chaser Max

[SKFOOTER]

C'mon guys! Don't hate the player. Hate the game! :stir:

 

[muddyboots]

I'll b honest. Looks exciting to me and if it helps my wife or daughter kill a turkey I have no problems with it. For the record I've tried it 3 times and all 3 times the birds ran like their tails were on fire. Not so ez where I hunt for some reason. And if me and my wife have hunted all day and see one blowed up like a football 200 yards away and she wants too I'll try it again. I have no qualms with it. Back to the op. I have no advice. Like I said it's never worked for me.

 

[Hunt 365]

Poor guy got his thread hijacked...

 

[catman529]

When the season gets late and the wife wants some more ground turkey breast...

Why not just go to the grocery store? It's likely cheaper, arguably just as sporting and as far as skill required, buying ground turkey is only slightly more difficult than reaping.

having just got home from Kroger myself, I would say that sneaking up on a tom turkey behind a tail fan is a little more fun than going to the store.


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[catman529]

Did you just approach them directly or from below them etc? Thanks for the feedback, I've never had it work, I guess it was the jake fan!

I go straight at them and make sure my head doesn't peek over top of the fan. Make sure there's a notch or crack between the feathers so you can see where you're going.

Don't let everyone here talk you down, it's ok to try it once, that's what I did and it was pretty cool. Me personally I wouldn't make a habit out of it, and since you already prefer hunting another way, you probably won't make a habit out of it either. And make sure your field is very wide open and visible to try to keep it on the safe side.


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[Spurhunter]

I agree with keeping it on the safe side. I always say "safety first" while sticking my head behind a turkey fan and crawling around during turkey season in a field full of turkeys! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[Southern Sportsman]

It's funny how some people say its the easy way to do it, then they must have tried it.. I've never had it work, only boss gobblers taking there hens away. If it happened to work, great, and it's legal. Maybe we should try to get along as hunters and stick together instead of downing someone who's just wanting to try something that looks like fun. If it was so easy there wouldn't be any gobblers left. I'm seeing more this year already than I have in awhile so it must not be damaging the flock too bad. It's not like I'm asking for poaching tips lol. Maybe we shouldn't be able to use decoys either since that's too easy as well - because that is all a fan is, is a decoy...

First of all I will start out saying I don't use decoys, never have never will. I don't even own one. I was taught how to hunt turkeys the traditional way by my dad and grandfather, just me, a call, a gun and a good setup. A few years ago I had a couple of places that had birds but the spots were 2 huge fields and the toms would stay out in those fields and strut and follow the hens around all day. I was trying to hunt them by just calling and moving around on them and no decoys. I became frustrated because there were so many hens and the toms wouldn't leave the hens they were with to come check me out. One dad I'd had enough and I told myself if they wouldn't come to me I was going to go to them. At this point I had never heard of fanning, this was like 5 or 6 years ago. It wasn't all over tv and the internet like it is now. I went home got a fan from a bird I had killed in the past and the next day went back out and shortly after fly down there were 5 toms in the field strutting with about 50 hens. I got behind my fan and started crawling to them. I got halfway to them and 3 toms broke away from the flock and strutted side by side all the way to me and I shot the biggest one. That season and a couple seasons after that my hunting partner and I fanned several in these two fields and we never did have one spook from us. They either strutted or ran all the way to us. From my experience there is no skill involved except for hitting one at 10 yards. I won't try to fan one now days. If I can't bring him to me with a call he will live to see another day. Fanning or reaping is ruining turkey hunting. It's all over tv and the internet and people are starting to get into turkey hunting just because they have seen all these videos and they want to try it. I know people personally that have killed their limit in birds the last couple of years by strictly crawling behind a fan and these people couldn't kill a turkey to save their life if you took the fan away from them. Personally I think it should be illegal.

I wish there was a smiley to represent the initiation of a slow-clap applause.

 

[ZachMarkus]

It's funny how some people say its the easy way to do it, then they must have tried it.. I've never had it work, only boss gobblers taking there hens away. If it happened to work, great, and it's legal. Maybe we should try to get along as hunters and stick together instead of downing someone who's just wanting to try something that looks like fun. If it was so easy there wouldn't be any gobblers left. I'm seeing more this year already than I have in awhile so it must not be damaging the flock too bad. It's not like I'm asking for poaching tips lol. Maybe we shouldn't be able to use decoys either since that's too easy as well - because that is all a fan is, is a decoy...

First of all I will start out saying I don't use decoys, never have never will. I don't even own one. I was taught how to hunt turkeys the traditional way by my dad and grandfather, just me, a call, a gun and a good setup. A few years ago I had a couple of places that had birds but the spots were 2 huge fields and the toms would stay out in those fields and strut and follow the hens around all day. I was trying to hunt them by just calling and moving around on them and no decoys. I became frustrated because there were so many hens and the toms wouldn't leave the hens they were with to come check me out. One dad I'd had enough and I told myself if they wouldn't come to me I was going to go to them. At this point I had never heard of fanning, this was like 5 or 6 years ago. It wasn't all over tv and the internet like it is now. I went home got a fan from a bird I had killed in the past and the next day went back out and shortly after fly down there were 5 toms in the field strutting with about 50 hens. I got behind my fan and started crawling to them. I got halfway to them and 3 toms broke away from the flock and strutted side by side all the way to me and I shot the biggest one. That season and a couple seasons after that my hunting partner and I fanned several in these two fields and we never did have one spook from us. They either strutted or ran all the way to us. From my experience there is no skill involved except for hitting one at 10 yards. I won't try to fan one now days. If I can't bring him to me with a call he will live to see another day. Fanning or reaping is ruining turkey hunting. It's all over tv and the internet and people are starting to get into turkey hunting just because they have seen all these videos and they want to try it. I know people personally that have killed their limit in birds the last couple of years by strictly crawling behind a fan and these people couldn't kill a turkey to save their life if you took the fan away from them. Personally I think it should be illegal.

I wish there was a smiley to represent the initiation of a slow-clap applause.

No need to be a smart ass. Care to elaborate on your comment? I was simply sharing my experience from doing it and my views on it now. If you have a problem with that PM me and we'll take care of it.


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[Roost 1]

Non-sense.... by all means be a smart arse!!! It makes things more interesting. :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

 

[catman529]

I agree with keeping it on the safe side. I always say "safety first" while sticking my head behind a turkey fan and crawling around during turkey season in a field full of turkeys! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

I've done worse, like climb a tree without a harness


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[Spurhunter]

I agree with keeping it on the safe side. I always say "safety first" while sticking my head behind a turkey fan and crawling around during turkey season in a field full of turkeys! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

I've done worse, like climb a tree without a harness


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Not even close.

 

[catman529]

I agree with keeping it on the safe side. I always say "safety first" while sticking my head behind a turkey fan and crawling around during turkey season in a field full of turkeys! :rotf: :rotf: :rotf:

I've done worse, like climb a tree without a harness


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Not even close.

what are you saying is worse?


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[Spurhunter]

what are you saying is worse?

Crawling around behind a turkey fan during turkey season every day and twice on Sunday.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

First of all I will start out saying I don't use decoys, never have never will. I don't even own one. I was taught how to hunt turkeys the traditional way by my dad and grandfather, just me, a call, a gun and a good setup. A few years ago I had a couple of places that had birds but the spots were 2 huge fields and the toms would stay out in those fields and strut and follow the hens around all day. I was trying to hunt them by just calling and moving around on them and no decoys. I became frustrated because there were so many hens and the toms wouldn't leave the hens they were with to come check me out. One dad I'd had enough and I told myself if they wouldn't come to me I was going to go to them. At this point I had never heard of fanning, this was like 5 or 6 years ago. It wasn't all over tv and the internet like it is now. I went home got a fan from a bird I had killed in the past and the next day went back out and shortly after fly down there were 5 toms in the field strutting with about 50 hens. I got behind my fan and started crawling to them. I got halfway to them and 3 toms broke away from the flock and strutted side by side all the way to me and I shot the biggest one. That season and a couple seasons after that my hunting partner and I fanned several in these two fields and we never did have one spook from us. They either strutted or ran all the way to us. From my experience there is no skill involved except for hitting one at 10 yards. I won't try to fan one now days. If I can't bring him to me with a call he will live to see another day. Fanning or reaping is ruining turkey hunting. It's all over tv and the internet and people are starting to get into turkey hunting just because they have seen all these videos and they want to try it. I know people personally that have killed their limit in birds the last couple of years by strictly crawling behind a fan and these people couldn't kill a turkey to save their life if you took the fan away from them. Personally I think it should be illegal.

I wish there was a smiley to represent the initiation of a slow-clap applause.

No need to be a smart *****. Care to elaborate on your comment? I was simply sharing my experience from doing it and my views on it now. If you have a problem with that PM me and we'll take care of it.

Easy killer. While I have it in me to be a smartasss, I met my quota for the day dealing with people at work. To elaborate on my comment, this wasn't intended as smartasss. It was a humorous (or so I thought) way to applaud your comment. I agree with everything you said, appreciate that it comes from personal experience, and couldn't have said it better myself. After reading it, in my mind I pictured a guy standing up in the back of a room starting a slow-clap. I looked through the smiles, and even clicked "view more smilies" but couldn't find one that appropriately conveyed that feeling. And so, I say again, there should be a slow-clap smilie (or maybe a "drop the mic" smilie?)

 

[ZachMarkus]

First of all I will start out saying I don't use decoys, never have never will. I don't even own one. I was taught how to hunt turkeys the traditional way by my dad and grandfather, just me, a call, a gun and a good setup. A few years ago I had a couple of places that had birds but the spots were 2 huge fields and the toms would stay out in those fields and strut and follow the hens around all day. I was trying to hunt them by just calling and moving around on them and no decoys. I became frustrated because there were so many hens and the toms wouldn't leave the hens they were with to come check me out. One dad I'd had enough and I told myself if they wouldn't come to me I was going to go to them. At this point I had never heard of fanning, this was like 5 or 6 years ago. It wasn't all over tv and the internet like it is now. I went home got a fan from a bird I had killed in the past and the next day went back out and shortly after fly down there were 5 toms in the field strutting with about 50 hens. I got behind my fan and started crawling to them. I got halfway to them and 3 toms broke away from the flock and strutted side by side all the way to me and I shot the biggest one. That season and a couple seasons after that my hunting partner and I fanned several in these two fields and we never did have one spook from us. They either strutted or ran all the way to us. From my experience there is no skill involved except for hitting one at 10 yards. I won't try to fan one now days. If I can't bring him to me with a call he will live to see another day. Fanning or reaping is ruining turkey hunting. It's all over tv and the internet and people are starting to get into turkey hunting just because they have seen all these videos and they want to try it. I know people personally that have killed their limit in birds the last couple of years by strictly crawling behind a fan and these people couldn't kill a turkey to save their life if you took the fan away from them. Personally I think it should be illegal.

I wish there was a smiley to represent the initiation of a slow-clap applause.

No need to be a smart *****. Care to elaborate on your comment? I was simply sharing my experience from doing it and my views on it now. If you have a problem with that PM me and we'll take care of it.

Easy killer. While I have it in me to be a smartasss, I met my quota for the day dealing with people at work. To elaborate on my comment, this wasn't intended as smartasss. It was a humorous (or so I thought) way to applaud your comment. I agree with everything you said, appreciate that it comes from personal experience, and couldn't have said it better myself. After reading it, in my mind I pictured a guy standing up in the back of a room starting a slow-clap. I looked through the smiles, and even clicked "view more smilies" but couldn't find one that appropriately conveyed that feeling. And so, I say again, there should be a slow-clap smilie (or maybe a "drop the mic" smilie?)

My bad bud, I took it the wrong way.


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[JAY B]

Hunt how you want to hunt and enjoy every minute of it , did anyone that commented negatively buy your license? Didn't think so ! Some folks on here didn't listen to there mama when she said "if you ain't got nothing nice to say, don't say nothing at all"! Good luck this year in however you hunt !

 

[Andy S.]

No experience with one, and very little experience hunting/shooting turkeys in a field.

 

[REN]

what are you saying is worse?

Crawling around behind a turkey fan during turkey season every day and twice on Sunday.

not sure about that, I mean statistically speaking climbing trees to deer hunt with no harness is much more deadly and silly in my book.

 

[Spurhunter]

what are you saying is worse?

Crawling around behind a turkey fan during turkey season every day and twice on Sunday.

not sure about that, I mean statistically speaking climbing trees to deer hunt with no harness is much more deadly and silly in my book.

Millions of people climb trees to deer hunt every year. We haven't devolved to a point where millions of people crawl around behind turkey fans during turkey season. Yet. Besides, most people that fall out of a tree stand break a leg or sprain an ankle. Not quite as severe as getting shot in the face with a 22 Magnum. I could tell some tales about guys that I know personally that have caught poachers on their PRIVATE land with scoped rifles during turkey season. Or guys that have had a gobbler shot at with a rifle while they were working him. Or outlaws claiming they turkey hunt with a 22/250. But I won't. If someone wants to risk getting their melon busted like a jack-o-lantern on November 1st over some turkey meat it's no skin off my nose. I, myself have too much to live for.

 

[REN]

not saying either is worse then the other, but statistically speaking not using a harness is an even worse idea. yes people hunt with 22s and other rifles BUT as of now there are not really any numbers of people getting shot behind a fan any more than people getting shot sitting near decoys. again its not a safe way to hunt in any fashion and comparing the 2 is like asking if you would rather have syphilis or genital herpes....