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Saw this today and wondered who was getting a new batch just in time for the season 🤣🤣🤣
 

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FINALLY. I've been checking the tracking information every day. It's gonna be cold opening morning. I've got a buddy heater and a coffee pot that runs on a 12 volt battery ready to go. I'll get those in there tomorrow. Probably wait till Friday evening to put out my decoys.

By the way, do you pick up your decoys after every hunt or just leave them out? It's a lot of work staking all of them out in the mornings, but I'd hate for them to get stolen. Didn't know how you East TN guys usually do it.
 
Southern Sportsman said:
By the way, do you pick up your decoys after every hunt or just leave them out? It's a lot of work staking all of them out in the mornings, but I'd hate for them to get stolen.
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I pick mine up when I'm done. After the hunt I drive my 3 seater side by side down to the food plot and load up my blind and decoys (10 hens, 2 jakes, and a strutting tom.
 
Spurhunter said:
I pick mine up when I'm done. After the hunt I drive my 3 seater side by side down to the food plot and load up my blind and decoys (10 hens, 2 jakes, and a strutting tom.
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I tried sleeping in mine, but the snoring scared away the birds... Do they make sound proof blinds?
 
True story.

Years ago I had a buddy who had a farm with turkeys. He had never killed one. We tried the "traditional" way a few times without success.

There was one field, probably 3-4 acres, in a bottom that the birds were using quite a bit.

I told him that I knew a way that would be almost a guarantee.

That night, around 10:00 or so, we drove his jeep down the hill to the middle of the field and put up my blind and sat up a couple of chairs. I put out a jake and hen decoy.

We got in the blind before daylight and waited. The birds started hammering about 100 yards off the field. I just let the inevitable play out without ever making a call (as hard as that was and against my religion). Soon hens entered the field. The gobbling got closer and closer, and it was obvious that there were two.

It wasn't long until they entered the field, and I told my buddy to be turned toward the decoy that it was fixing to happen.

We waited ..... and waited ..... and waited.

The circled us and NEVER got within range. They weren't spooked, but they sure weren't interested in a fight. It was the most let down hunt I had ever encountered, because I just knew it was a sure thing, right?
 
PalsPal said:
True story.

Years ago I had a buddy who had a farm with turkeys. He had never killed one. We tried the "traditional" way a few times without success.

There was one field, probably 3-4 acres, in a bottom that the birds were using quite a bit.

I told him that I knew a way that would be almost a guarantee.

That night, around 10:00 or so, we drove his jeep down the hill to the middle of the field and put up my blind and sat up a couple of chairs. I put out a jake and hen decoy.

We got in the blind before daylight and waited. The birds started hammering about 100 yards off the field. I just let the inevitable play out without ever making a call (as hard as that was and against my religion). Soon hens entered the field. The gobbling got closer and closer, and it was obvious that there were two.

It wasn't long until they entered the field, and I told my buddy to be turned toward the decoy that it was fixing to happen.

We waited ..... and waited ..... and waited.

The circled us and NEVER got within range. They weren't spooked, but they sure weren't interested in a fight. It was the most let down hunt I had ever encountered, because I just knew it was a sure thing, right?
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That's kinda what I've been trying to point out to all those who seem to believe it's "decoys" that are causing a massive turkey die-off. Decoys likely "save" about as many birds as they cause to die.

Ironically, when you have birds using a field (like you described above), you need neither a tent, nor a decoy, nor a call, to easily "kill" one of those Toms. Dare I say, you probably would have killed one that day, had you NOT set out a decoy?

You also don't need a "tent".
All you have to do is pick a spot near where they're coming or going, sit, and be still.
Not my cup of tea, just saying same turkeys often die, with, or without, someone using decoys.

Otherwise, everything we take afield for turkey hunting, everything, is some kind of "crutch", and that includes our turkey calls. Try explaining to a non-hunter how a call is less a crutch than a decoy, as it may eventually come to that, especially on the national forest lands, and/or any other "public" lands controlled by some federal agency.
 
TheLBLman said:
All you have to do is pick a spot near where they're coming or going, sit, and be still.
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When I hunted field turkeys it was never that easy for me. Granted my field turkey experience has been on much bigger fields and cattle pastures. There was no rhyme or reason to where they would come out. Even if you roosted the bird, he might fly down in the woods, move around for an hour and come out where you least expected. I killed quite a few field birds in the 5 years that's all I had to hunt, but the ones I killed either came to a call after losing their hens or I would use the terrain to get in front of them and "call in" the flock. There were many days a lone gobbler would come to 75 or 100 yards, hang up and strut insisting the hen come to him until they lost interest and drifted off. The only good thing about field turkeys is you can usually see them and keep up with their location whether they are gobbling or not.
 
Spurhunter said:
When I hunted field turkeys it was never that easy for me. Granted my field turkey experience has been on much bigger fields and cattle pastures. There was no rhyme or reason to where they would come out. Even if you roosted the bird, he might fly down in the woods, move around for an hour and come out where you least expected. I killed quite a few field birds in the 5 years that's all I had to hunt, but the ones I killed either came to a call after losing their hens or I would use the terrain to get in front of them and "call in" the flock. There were many days a lone gobbler would come to 75 or 100 yards, hang up and strut insisting the hen come to him until they lost interest and drifted off. The only good thing about field turkeys is you can usually see them and keep up with their location whether they are gobbling or not.
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Sometimes with groups of turkeys in a field it is easier to figure out where they will enter the woods when they leave the field. If you watch the direction they are headed at the time they usually exit the field, you can likely get in front of them in the woods.
 

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