Blinds

[Gobble!]

Oh yeah and using anything but a long bow while wearing deer skin is taking away from turkey hunting to.

[owlhoot]

Oh yeah and using anything but a long bow while wearing deer skin is taking away from it to.

as long as your having fun a blind is fine. Up to you . Personally have used both methods , blinds started with kids though, but i can say i like to use them some.  Enjoyed my hunts either way.

Killed some deer with longbows from the ground, no blind. But i am not no better than a buddy who shoots a wheel bow out of the stand. 
And won't try to portray myself as such.

[GhostGobbler]

When hunting on the private lease, which is only about 60 acres, it's blind or nothing. When I am in the mountains hunting the WMA, the blind stays home. Blinds are necessary when you don't have much land to work with, as anything other than slight changes in position runs the risk of spooking the birds off of the property.

[busta biggun]

"Question wasn't intended to be a pi$$ing match between who uses a blind and who don't. Or if you agree with using one or not."

Well unfortunately that is exactly what ends up happening. It seems like a passive-aggressive approach to promoting your type of hunting to others and suggesting that you shouldn't use a blind unless you are a kid or handicapped. The past several years this site seems to be building a growing elitist type of hunting hierarchy of manliness or sportsmanship, based on whether you use blinds or decoys. I personally prefer to hunt against a tree with no blind or decoy but have no problem at all doing it when I want to film. That being said I am not here to promote my methods of hunting over somebody else's. If you prefer to not use a blind, knock yourself out. Enjoy your method of hunting and let everybody else enjoy their own method. We have enough things in this world that separate us, we should be able to focus on the things we agree upon without creating more controversy. 

[chatterbox]

I hate blinds, my FIL loves them.
We both tag out. I don't feel he is less of a hunter for using them, and he doesn't judge my style.
He has gotten to the age where he really likes to be comfortable when he's out there, and a blind affords him that.
I just hate the restriction of a blind, but will never, ever judge anyone else on the methods they choose.
If you are having fun, and are enjoying every minute of your hunt, go for it. I will be the first to congratulate you on a job well done when you lay the hate on a big ol' gobbler! !

[silvestris]

If one can't honestly discuss one's  thoughts and his whys on turkey hunting, what good is a forum other than an attaboy this or an attaboy that.

[busta biggun]

Basically because this has been discussed multiple times, over and over, and it always seems to end up with two different camps arguing over which way is the "correct" way. In many cases it gets pretty heated as it really seems like a lot of guys feel they are superior hunters to everybody else. There is a reason there are people posting the "dead horse" cartoon. This has run it's course. We have plenty of other hunting tactics /strategies that we can discuss.

[Honolua]

I do both... I run and gun, hunt from a blind, and have spot and stalked with a bow. When my kids come I am in the blind though. I have four blinds set up and today sat 10 yards from one with my back against a tree and never went inside lol

[trackerbucky]

I prefer a loin cloth (that camo really takes away the need to stay still and use your eyesight to really fool a wary gobbler) AND I use a sharpened stick hardened in a hickory fire (those shotguns that reach way out to 40 yards take much of the enjoyment of REALLY fooling a gobbler away for me). I don't understand why anyone would hunt any other way.  But I don't judge those who chose to do so.