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No decoys, no blind?
Started by Blong, February 25, 2015, 10:29:17 AM
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Timmer
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Re: No decoys, no blind?
#30
February 26, 2015, 01:44:04 PM
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I mostly run and gun, locate turkeys, work close, and then call and try to get them engaged. While I frequently pause for a period of time, I don't stick to a spot until I think I've got them engaged. At that point I believe they're coming and then I'm worried I don't have time and I don't want to get busted. More often than not the decoys stay in my vest.
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trackerbucky
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#31
February 26, 2015, 02:24:21 PM
You use a shotgun? And camo?
You should really try just wearing a loin cloth and calling them in using nothing but your voice. Then when they're close enough you just pounce on 'em. Man, that's real turkey hunting.
I love golf. It keeps a lot of people out of the turkey woods.
Snoodsniper
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#32
February 26, 2015, 02:59:57 PM
I use whatever strikes me as appropriate for each particular set up. I think I've used a blind twice and only with my kids. I like stay mobile.
contagious
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#33
February 26, 2015, 03:33:11 PM
Never use a blind or decoys, take three or four a year in Alabama.Mouth call ,chair and a gun.!!
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#34
February 27, 2015, 01:46:49 PM
Killed my 1st bird at age 14 in 1987. I've never used a blind or decoy. Even in places like Kansas I don't use decoys and have always had great luck without them. I have also never considered using a blind
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#35
February 27, 2015, 06:02:04 PM
I never hunted from a popup blind. I use pole blinds when necessary. I prefer using whatever downed tree is nearby. A couple of the places I hunt I already have dragged a few downed trees together to make some cover.
I use decoys about 25-30% of the time.
I use a chair 100% of the time because of a bad back. I already have 3 vertebrae fused together and don't want anymore.
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greencop01
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#36
February 27, 2015, 06:49:46 PM
I would like to start by saying I think all legal methods of hunting turkeys are ok if they float your boat. I personally call my birds and don't use a blind and no decoys. I find hunting this way leaves me awed and amazed and really satisfied. But again I don't look down on other methods. I look down on just killing: I kill too but it's the end of a hunt, not the reason I hunt turkeys. I leave you all with some authors that can explain it much better than I, Gene Nunnery, John Mcdaniel and Ken Morgan.
We wait all year,why not enjoy the longbeard coming in hunting for a hen, let 'em' in close !!!
RutnNStrutn
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Re: No decoys, no blind?
#37
February 28, 2015, 09:00:48 PM
I normally hunt with decoys. I hunt a few times a season out of a pop up blind. I kill birds every season those ways. I also have hunted, and killed birds without decoys or blinds. My favorite way to hunt is running and gunning, but I mainly down in Dixie, and that doesn't work so well where I hunt. That's why I use decoys, and call and wait a lot.
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