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megalomaniac

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Hunted my lease back home in south MS. Never heard a gobble (only bird I've heard all season was the one I killed opening weekend, which coincidentally has been the only bird killed the entire season). Covered some drains and some deer plots and came across this setup...

Not 1 but 2 feeders, with a blind not even 10 yards from the closest feeder. And to top it off, the guy just leaves the decoy in the field when he's not there.

I seriously hope this is home base for one of the 75yo guys on the lease. I could almost overlook it if that were the case. But this is just so wrong on so many levels.
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What's wrong is that there is no corn right around the blind to draw them in close! [emoji23] I think that may actually be set up by a turkey to draw in hunters. Or maybe it was set up by one of those guys in green suits. Either way I'd get out of there for fear of my life or license!


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That is a terrible and inaccurate depiction of anything pertaining to "hunting", maybe a tornado will touch down in that field and relocate all of it.
 
ImThere":1y3dpg75 said:
That's funny!


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It really is funny. Very sad, but hilarious at the same time. I mean, he didn't even try to conceal the blind at the field edge, just plopped it in the middle of the field. And why not put one feeder on each side of the blind instead of both on one side? :) and 10 yds away? I've never hunted out of a blind, but I can't imagine turkeys being that stupid

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Wow. I can think of a whole lot more things to do with my time than to hunt turkeys that way even it was legal but to each their own. I can sit all day waiting for a mature buck but the cat and mouse game with just a call and a gun is what gets my blood pumping in the turkey woods. If not, I'd rather be fishing.
 
megalomaniac":3cs0n8rl said:
I mean, he didn't even try to conceal the blind at the field edge, just plopped it in the middle of the field. And why not put one feeder on each side of the blind instead of both on one side? :) and 10 yds away? I've never hunted out of a blind, but I can't imagine turkeys being that stupid
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When it comes to blinds they are. When I first started turkey hunting I hunted a big field out of a blind. I would hide it in the edge of the woods and brush it in. I soon discovered you could plop it out right in the middle of the field and they would walk by like it wasn't even there.



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megalomaniac":1b22ddjw said:
ImThere":1b22ddjw said:
That's funny!


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It really is funny. Very sad, but hilarious at the same time. I mean, he didn't even try to conceal the blind at the field edge, just plopped it in the middle of the field. And why not put one feeder on each side of the blind instead of both on one side? :) and 10 yds away? I've never hunted out of a blind, but I can't imagine turkeys being that stupid

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During juvenile season I went in WELL before daylight and set up a blind on top of a knoll in the center of a cow pasture.
Grass was so short you couldn't hide an Easter egg in it.
Daylight came and there were several birds roosted within 50 yards of us.
Flydown came and one of them hit the ground 30 yards from the blind, I purred, he took 3 steps towards us and Man whacked him. :)
Dangest thing I ever seen.
So yes, they are definitely that "stupid". :D
 
Gravey":eizgtr6f said:
No idea what could run through somebodys head to set it up like that but to each their own. Is it legal to hunt over bait in mississippi?
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No. Guys across the road from land I hunt in MS got tickets for baiting when I was there the first 2 weekends of MS season.

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I have no idea if the same rule for deer applies to turkeys regarding baiting in MS. It is legal to deer hunt 100 yards away from a spincast feeder or covered trough, as long as the feed is not poured on the ground in piles. I haven't even researched the technicalities of baiting for turkeys, as it has ZERO appeal to me. I'd rather work on the honey-do list than sit waiting for turkeys to ambush them coming to a feeder. But it doesn't bother me one bit to sit in a deer blind waiting to ambush them for hours. Funny how that works.
 

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