Turkeys - They sure are strange sometimes
02-07-2008, 03:51 PM
#12
Typical Buck
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RE: Turkeys - They sure are strange sometimes
ORIGINAL: TEmbry15
I agree i refuse to gun hunt from a blind. Heck im even going to try bowhunting without a blind some this year. I will only use a blind if i have a small kid or girl with me who cant sit still, or if im bowhunting which requires a great deal of movement.
ORIGINAL: Simp
Looks like I'm one of the few that absolutely refuses to hunt out of a blind. Nothing against anyone else doing it but I don't see where the fun is in hunting from a blind. That's one of the reasonswhy it's so challenging to hunt turkeys: to try to fool the best pair of eyes in the woods. If I wanted to make it any easier I probably wouldn't hunt them anymore.
I can see if you wanted to take an adolescent with you hunting you may want to use a blind to conceal some of his movement because he probably doesn't know any better, but for a seasoned turkey to use one borders laziness in my opinion.
Looks like I'm one of the few that absolutely refuses to hunt out of a blind. Nothing against anyone else doing it but I don't see where the fun is in hunting from a blind. That's one of the reasonswhy it's so challenging to hunt turkeys: to try to fool the best pair of eyes in the woods. If I wanted to make it any easier I probably wouldn't hunt them anymore.
I can see if you wanted to take an adolescent with you hunting you may want to use a blind to conceal some of his movement because he probably doesn't know any better, but for a seasoned turkey to use one borders laziness in my opinion.
02-07-2008, 04:18 PM
#13
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Chatham, Ohio
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RE: Turkeys - They sure are strange sometimes
I agree,
When i was like 10 or 11, i set up a little stake blind and 3 decoys way back in my uncles woods. It was before i started hunting turkeys, but it was during the season. I yelped a couple times on my box call and about 10 minutes later i had 4 gobblers at 25 feet away circling my decoys. I was hooked from that moment on. So the next year when i finally got to hunt, i went out with my uncle on opening day of youth season and shot a double bearded jake. Now i was really hooked. Since then i have turned up a goose egg. Ive only had 1 shot during my last 5 seasons, and it was with my bow last year and I missed. I thought it was going to be the easiestanimal to huntand it turns out that thier the hardest.
When i was like 10 or 11, i set up a little stake blind and 3 decoys way back in my uncles woods. It was before i started hunting turkeys, but it was during the season. I yelped a couple times on my box call and about 10 minutes later i had 4 gobblers at 25 feet away circling my decoys. I was hooked from that moment on. So the next year when i finally got to hunt, i went out with my uncle on opening day of youth season and shot a double bearded jake. Now i was really hooked. Since then i have turned up a goose egg. Ive only had 1 shot during my last 5 seasons, and it was with my bow last year and I missed. I thought it was going to be the easiestanimal to huntand it turns out that thier the hardest.
