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I tried it before with just a fan when a gobbler hung up. He went into full strut spitting and drumming the whole way in and I killed him at about 10 steps before he ran over me. Admittedly it's an adrenaline rush but not my cup of tea. There's legal and there's ethical and in my opinion yes it's legal but not ethical. Plays on a birds instinct to come fight so it's like shooting fish in a barrel. Seems a lot of folks are more concerned with killing rather than hunting. To each their own.
 
Mike Belt":2nvutykm said:
I've never tried it but I'd kind of like to. The difference is I'd like to try catching one by hand doing it. Catch and release.
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me too. Only 2 things stopping me is that it's not technically legal and id rather be spending the time actually shooting one in the face


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Roost 1":1renmh5m said:
:pop: Waiting on cowhunter and setterman.
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It's just a shade more pathetic than blinds and decoys. At least it takes some effort unlike those, but it's a wretched tactic that brings out the worst segment of the hunting population. All that crap needs to be done away with. Send those idiots to the woods with only a call and see how quickly they quit from not killing anything. Less people, more birds and we'd all be happier
 
I just think it's very unsporting. Never tried it. Your triggering a birds fight instinct. That's what they do, same as game chickens. It's natural to them, the way they are made.
Calling a gobbler up with a hen call is different. It is unnatural for him to go to the hen. Your getting him to make a mistake.
I think people that shoot them with rifles around feeders have more decency.


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woodsman04":11uod08u said:
I just think it's very unsporting. Never tried it. Your triggering a birds fight instinct. That's what they do, same as game chickens. It's natural to them, the way they are made.
Calling a gobbler up with a hen call is different. It is unnatural for him to go to the hen. Your getting him to make a mistake.
I think people that shoot them with rifles around feeders have more decency.


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Just for conversation sake:
What is the difference in reaping (using their vision to entice a fight response) and using the old fighting purrs calls to use their hearing to entice the same result?
 
RUGER":28dtm8og said:
woodsman04":28dtm8og said:
I just think it's very unsporting. Never tried it. Your triggering a birds fight instinct. That's what they do, same as game chickens. It's natural to them, the way they are made.
Calling a gobbler up with a hen call is different. It is unnatural for him to go to the hen. Your getting him to make a mistake.
I think people that shoot them with rifles around feeders have more decency.


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Just for conversation sake:
What is the difference in reaping (using their vision to entice a fight response) and using the old fighting purrs calls to use their hearing to entice the same result?
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The difference is with just a call the slightest movement and the bird is gone. Where as with a decoy in front of you the movement is concealed and also works in your advantage. It's like removing a deers sense of smell essentially
 
Setterman":3sm2qbgt said:
RUGER":3sm2qbgt said:
woodsman04":3sm2qbgt said:
I just think it's very unsporting. Never tried it. Your triggering a birds fight instinct. That's what they do, same as game chickens. It's natural to them, the way they are made.
Calling a gobbler up with a hen call is different. It is unnatural for him to go to the hen. Your getting him to make a mistake.
I think people that shoot them with rifles around feeders have more decency.


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Just for conversation sake:
What is the difference in reaping (using their vision to entice a fight response) and using the old fighting purrs calls to use their hearing to entice the same result?
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The difference is with just a call the slightest movement and the bird is gone. Where as with a decoy in front of you the movement is concealed and also works in your advantage. It's like removing a deers sense of smell essentially
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Makes sense.
 
I am 100% certain I could explain to him what to do, then take my 4 year old son out in the spring and he could crawl up on a turkey with a decoy in front of him. If it wasn't legitimately dangerous and against every ounce of common sense and hunter education logic, I would do it just to prove the point. But it gives people otherwise lacking the skills necessary to kill turkeys consistently the opportunity to post four dead turkeys on facebook in the spring. And the facebook grip-and-grin is, after all, what makes this sport so special.
 
Setterman":2wn1ogar said:
RUGER":2wn1ogar said:
woodsman04":2wn1ogar said:
I just think it's very unsporting. Never tried it. Your triggering a birds fight instinct. That's what they do, same as game chickens. It's natural to them, the way they are made.
Calling a gobbler up with a hen call is different. It is unnatural for him to go to the hen. Your getting him to make a mistake.
I think people that shoot them with rifles around feeders have more decency.


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Just for conversation sake:
What is the difference in reaping (using their vision to entice a fight response) and using the old fighting purrs calls to use their hearing to entice the same result?
Click to expand...
The difference is with just a call the slightest movement and the bird is gone. Where as with a decoy in front of you the movement is concealed and also works in your advantage. It's like removing a deers sense of smell essentially
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What about deer decoys and sort wheezing?
 
TreyB":2p39o15a said:
Setterman":2p39o15a said:
The difference is with just a call the slightest movement and the bird is gone. Where as with a decoy in front of you the movement is concealed and also works in your advantage. It's like removing a deers sense of smell essentially
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What about deer decoys and sort wheezing?
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What about it? Are lots of people spotting trophy bucks in open fields and walking up to them holding a deer decoy and blowing a snort wheeze call then shooting them at 10 yards? If you do it often, every once in a great while you may get a decent deer to come into a deer decoy while blowing a snort wheeze call. But there is a lot of work and skill that goes into before you get to that point. "Reaping" turkeys is much more comparable to spotlighting deer than it is to decoying deer.
 
TreyB":qp19gg7e said:
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RUGER":qp19gg7e said:
woodsman04":qp19gg7e said:
I just think it's very unsporting. Never tried it. Your triggering a birds fight instinct. That's what they do, same as game chickens. It's natural to them, the way they are made.
Calling a gobbler up with a hen call is different. It is unnatural for him to go to the hen. Your getting him to make a mistake.
I think people that shoot them with rifles around feeders have more decency.


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Just for conversation sake:
What is the difference in reaping (using their vision to entice a fight response) and using the old fighting purrs calls to use their hearing to entice the same result?
Click to expand...
The difference is with just a call the slightest movement and the bird is gone. Where as with a decoy in front of you the movement is concealed and also works in your advantage. It's like removing a deers sense of smell essentially
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What about deer decoys and sort wheezing?[/quote]

See my comments about taking a deer sense of smell away, neither of those tactics take their primary defense away.

Comparing deer and turkeys is exactly why we have chicken shlt tactics encroaching on turkey hunting
 
Easy fella.... I have never done it and probably never will. Was just a topic.

But I do use traditional style decoy hunting sometimes. And killed one with a bow out of a blind.
 
Southern Sportsman":cne4m7fw said:
It gives people otherwise lacking the skills necessary to kill turkeys consistently the opportunity to post four dead turkeys on facebook in the spring. And the facebook grip-and-grin is, after all, what makes this sport so special.
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^^^Spot On^^^


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