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<blockquote data-quote="Andy S." data-source="post: 5069535" data-attributes="member: 131"><p>......and sporting good stores, and check stations, and feed stores, and ball fields. I can spot a strutter decoy in/out a bag from a mile away. I wish more new hunters and struggling hunters had the drive to learn woodsmanship and calling them to the gun. As previously stated, our society as a whole has an affinity with instant gratification and success, and will gladly take the easiest path forward, regardless of the outcome or the second order effects. Use your strutter to shoot a turkey (<em>hopefully not the dominant bird in the area</em>) so the monkey is off your back, and you have some meat, then give it a go at locating one on the roost, listening, listening some more, approaching him slowly, picking a good setup that is in the hunters advantage, calling him to the gun or trying to call him to the gun. Learn to love failing when trying to beat them at their own game. If a newbie wanted to use a decoy akin to a tee starting out in tee ball, then so be it, but to think that is turkey "hunting" and the way forward disgusts so many who hunt them traditionally and learned the hard way. I am not telling anyone how to hunt, just asking for many to open their eyes and see there is a more rewarding way, but it takes time, sweat, effort, patience, patience, more patience and getting used to losing far more than you win. Those wins are worth their weight in goal when they happen.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Andy S., post: 5069535, member: 131"] ......and sporting good stores, and check stations, and feed stores, and ball fields. I can spot a strutter decoy in/out a bag from a mile away. I wish more new hunters and struggling hunters had the drive to learn woodsmanship and calling them to the gun. As previously stated, our society as a whole has an affinity with instant gratification and success, and will gladly take the easiest path forward, regardless of the outcome or the second order effects. Use your strutter to shoot a turkey ([I]hopefully not the dominant bird in the area[/I]) so the monkey is off your back, and you have some meat, then give it a go at locating one on the roost, listening, listening some more, approaching him slowly, picking a good setup that is in the hunters advantage, calling him to the gun or trying to call him to the gun. Learn to love failing when trying to beat them at their own game. If a newbie wanted to use a decoy akin to a tee starting out in tee ball, then so be it, but to think that is turkey "hunting" and the way forward disgusts so many who hunt them traditionally and learned the hard way. I am not telling anyone how to hunt, just asking for many to open their eyes and see there is a more rewarding way, but it takes time, sweat, effort, patience, patience, more patience and getting used to losing far more than you win. Those wins are worth their weight in goal when they happen. [/QUOTE]
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