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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: MarkCollin] #2461000
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Originally Posted by MarkCollin
I didn’t realize “deer hunting” turkeys was so frowned upon! .........


Me either……..especially coming from some of the same people who just argued in the deer baiting thread that folks should quit telling each other how they should hunt.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: buckbrush] #2461031
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Originally Posted by buckbrush
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. I welcome the new hunters as should everyone else. We were all new to the game at one point and hunters numbers are going down every year and if we don't start bringing new people to the sport in a few years we are really going to be in trouble.

I don't see that at all. License sales are no indication of hunter numbers.
From what I've seen in the past 20 years, hunters keep increasing exponentially.



Well U.S. Fish and Wildlife services would disagree hunters numbers are down 2.2 million from 2011.



Good maybe a bunch more will quit too.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2461049
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i agree that deer hunting turkeys aint as exciting. But i could say the same thing about deer hunters that dont run dogs. Its boring sitting there whether your waiting on a deer or turkey.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2461053
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I’d like to hear the reasoning behind why it’s not ok to hunt turkeys on a food plot in a blind. Let’s say you’ve been hearing some birds gobble in a certain area before the season and you’ve got them patterned pretty well. They leave the roost and eventually work there way to a hayfield late in the morning. You show up opening day to hunt but don’t hear a peep at daylight…What do you do?…Are you saying that it’s not ok to go camp out on the hayfield and wait for them to show up??? It just seems like another technique to me……Is it the blind you feel that’s not ok??? I don’t get this one…..I’m not a big turkey hunter though so I guess I’m not up to par on my finer details of etiquette. grin


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2461096
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What they are saying is that waiting in a pop up blind over decoys in a greenfield isn't what turkey hunting is about. It takes the skill out of it and if turns it into a waiting game.

You ain't got to sit still. You ain't got to choose the right tree to set up on. You ain't got to be able to call good. You just put the decoys out in the open where they are visible and play on your phone until it's time to shoot a turkey


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Out back] #2461127
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Originally Posted by Out back
Well then I disagree with US fish and wildlife.
Overall (across the USA) numbers might be down.
But in Alabama, I can only wish that was true.

I see an increase...not sure where they're getting their numbers

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Avengedsevenfold] #2461141
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Originally Posted by Avengedsevenfold
What they are saying is that waiting in a pop up blind over decoys in a greenfield isn't what turkey hunting is about. It takes the skill out of it and if turns it into a waiting game.

You ain't got to sit still. You ain't got to choose the right tree to set up on. You ain't got to be able to call good. You just put the decoys out in the open where they are visible and play on your phone until it's time to shoot a turkey


It just seems like that’s taking it a little too far to be judging other hunters for such as that.....especially when we hunt many other animals in the same way.... ducks, deer, dove, etc....I mean, how much skill does it really take to walk in on one in the dark and shoot him as soon as he hits the ground??? At least sitting in a blind takes patience. What if you want to go hunt in the afternoon and nothing is gobbling?? Can someone not prop up on the side of field and just hang out to see what happens?

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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2461144
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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2461332
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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: CNC] #2461354
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Originally Posted by CNC
I mean, how much skill does it really take to walk in on one in the dark and shoot him as soon as he hits the ground.

LOL Well, why don't you just Let us know? You have 2 more weeks, surely that's enough time for you to show us your skills..... Good luck!


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Well, the way I see it is there's just too many assholes
On a good day there's a bunch of assholes in here. On a bad day there's too many assholes in here.
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Originally Posted by Bustinbeards
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I mean, how much skill does it really take to walk in on one in the dark and shoot him as soon as he hits the ground.

LOL Well, why don't you just Let us know? You have 2 more weeks, surely that's enough time for you to show us your skills..... Good luck!

I wish it was that easy

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: Limbhanger1959] #2461406
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Originally Posted by Limbhanger1959
I would rather dig a ditch with a toothpick. Than set in a blind to turkey hunt. That's not what's it's about. Lim hanger 1959

I gotta remember that line.

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Originally Posted by Bustinbeards
LOL Well, why don't you just Let us know? You have 2 more weeks, surely that's enough time for you to show us your skills..... Good luck!


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: CNC] #2461488
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Originally Posted by CNC
Originally Posted by Avengedsevenfold
What they are saying is that waiting in a pop up blind over decoys in a greenfield isn't what turkey hunting is about. It takes the skill out of it and if turns it into a waiting game.

You ain't got to sit still. You ain't got to choose the right tree to set up on. You ain't got to be able to call good. You just put the decoys out in the open where they are visible and play on your phone until it's time to shoot a turkey


It just seems like that’s taking it a little too far to be judging other hunters for such as that.....especially when we hunt many other animals in the same way.... ducks, deer, dove, etc....I mean, how much skill does it really take to walk in on one in the dark and shoot him as soon as he hits the ground??? At least sitting in a blind takes patience. What if you want to go hunt in the afternoon and nothing is gobbling?? Can someone not prop up on the side of field and just hang out to see what happens?


I don't think anyone was judging. Like myself, just saying it's not for them. If you've gotten the turkey disease, you don't even ponder the idea of sitting in a blind and waiting for one.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2461518
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I don't believe anyone was talking down "deer hunting" turkeys. All I was saying was given the chance I'd rather play the game with vocal birds. You are going to get on more birds and more vocal birds on private land more consistently. Or at least that's been my experience.

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Originally Posted by ozarktroutbum
Originally Posted by Out back
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But since we're taking that route...How many turkeys have you actually killed that you didn't post to social media?

Not sure exactly where you're going with that question, but I don't put my turkey pics on the web either. Not even on aldeer.
I normally do not either. The way he asked how many I had actual killed came across as disparaging IMO so in turn I decided to ask him that...I might have taken it personal but I considered it to be personal. Obviously Austin posts a lot of his kill pics so that's what I was getting at. Whether he meant it ugly I don't know but that's how I perceived it at the time.


Well, you have to consider that every time you attack people for wearing bottomland, being proud of public land birds, or whatever it may be, it can be taken personal as well. As to posting pictures, I enjoy sharing my kills with others. I post the ones that I don't have a reason not to post.

Good luck the rest of the season.

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2462198
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I don't care how or where you hunt them , but patience has and will always be the most important quality for a turkey hunter to have. If it takes a blind, then so be it. It bothers me deer hunting out of a blind because I can't hear, no way I could personally turkey hunt in one.


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Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2462318
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Don't worry the hunters are flocking to public land now. Tell you a little story. I walked in deep on some Public land years ago in search of a gobbler. Back during deer hunting season I had found me a spot. Ended up shooting a small buck and a doe too. One morning trying to find my stand in pitch dark I about pissed in my pants when a flock of turkeys flew out of a tree about 30 feet over my head. Well it came turkey season and I decided to sneak back to that exact spot. Needless to say after a long walk in and a wasted morning I didn't see a turkey, none, zero.
I climbed in my truck and looked back up the road and low and behold a big gobbler was strutting in the middle of the road and as silent as a deer while doing it. I thought it was like a mirage I was seeing something, but I wasn't. I attempted a sneak on the ol'boy, but not a sound of that old tom. I still swear to this day someone must have cut the vocal cords out of that one cause I never heard any sounds. That is an example of how hunting on public land can be sometimes you can put in a lot of work and come up empty a lot more than private land. Find the game and more times than not someone will run it off or kill it before you get a shot at it. That's why they call it hunting I keep telling myself anyhow!

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Originally Posted by outdoors1
Don't worry the hunters are flocking to public land now. Tell you a little story. I walked in deep on some Public land years ago in search of a gobbler. Back during deer hunting season I had found me a spot. Ended up shooting a small buck and a doe too. One morning trying to find my stand in pitch dark I about pissed in my pants when a flock of turkeys flew out of a tree about 30 feet over my head. Well it came turkey season and I decided to sneak back to that exact spot. Needless to say after a long walk in and a wasted morning I didn't see a turkey, none, zero.
I climbed in my truck and looked back up the road and low and behold a big gobbler was strutting in the middle of the road and as silent as a deer while doing it. I thought it was like a mirage I was seeing something, but I wasn't. I attempted a sneak on the ol'boy, but not a sound of that old tom. I still swear to this day someone must have cut the vocal cords out of that one cause I never heard any sounds. That is an example of how hunting on public land can be sometimes you can put in a lot of work and come up empty a lot more than private land. Find the game and more times than not someone will run it off or kill it before you get a shot at it. That's why they call it hunting I keep telling myself anyhow!


Ghost birds. The ones where there's no possible way he could have come in without you hearing him. Yet, there he stands. They always materialize when you're in the most uncomfortable position possible. They're also always staring directly at you, so you can't even twitch. grin

Re: PUBLIC LAND [Re: ozarktroutbum] #2462757
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A real turkey hunter never lets anyone know where they killed the bird. IMO

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