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<blockquote data-quote="poorhunter" data-source="post: 5590134" data-attributes="member: 16537"><p>I used decoys on two hunts. Friend of mine from college who I used to hunt a lot with back in the day brought them down here, and I was excited to try them out. First time was about 10 am in a pretty big (30 acres, big around here) hay field. We had two boys with us and set up a tent blind on the edge of the field and a strutter and hen 25 yards out. Called once and one gobbled on the other side of the rise of the field probably 150 yards away. They topped the rise and strutted all the way up o the decoy in probably 10 seconds. Boom boom two dead toms. Next morning we set up the decoys in a pasture on a different farm. Birds gobbled on the roost and pitched onto the field 3-400 yards away and ran/strutted their way to the decoys, boom boom two more turkeys. I have hunter turkeys for a lot of years. I have messed with field birds a lot in those years, even these same birds that very year in the same fields. I've killed some field birds, but my success rate would be somewhere south of 5%. Even if decoys only worked 25% of the time (I think it's much higher than that early season, less mid and late season) they are an incredible tool that makes killing turkeys way too easy for anyone to kill. I haven't YouTubed turkey hunting much in the last 5 years, but virtually every video is someone killing one with a decoy. To deny they are extremely successful and easy to use for anyone is ridiculous. To deny they are not good for the turkey, and therefore not good for turkey hunting is very short sighted.</p><p>In talking with guys work with who do not hunt, they said that they do not know of anybody that does not use corn and decoys to kill turkeys, that it is not possible to do so otherwise. They literally think I'm lying when I said that I use neither and can kill turkeys.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="poorhunter, post: 5590134, member: 16537"] I used decoys on two hunts. Friend of mine from college who I used to hunt a lot with back in the day brought them down here, and I was excited to try them out. First time was about 10 am in a pretty big (30 acres, big around here) hay field. We had two boys with us and set up a tent blind on the edge of the field and a strutter and hen 25 yards out. Called once and one gobbled on the other side of the rise of the field probably 150 yards away. They topped the rise and strutted all the way up o the decoy in probably 10 seconds. Boom boom two dead toms. Next morning we set up the decoys in a pasture on a different farm. Birds gobbled on the roost and pitched onto the field 3-400 yards away and ran/strutted their way to the decoys, boom boom two more turkeys. I have hunter turkeys for a lot of years. I have messed with field birds a lot in those years, even these same birds that very year in the same fields. I’ve killed some field birds, but my success rate would be somewhere south of 5%. Even if decoys only worked 25% of the time (I think it’s much higher than that early season, less mid and late season) they are an incredible tool that makes killing turkeys way too easy for anyone to kill. I haven’t YouTubed turkey hunting much in the last 5 years, but virtually every video is someone killing one with a decoy. To deny they are extremely successful and easy to use for anyone is ridiculous. To deny they are not good for the turkey, and therefore not good for turkey hunting is very short sighted. In talking with guys work with who do not hunt, they said that they do not know of anybody that does not use corn and decoys to kill turkeys, that it is not possible to do so otherwise. They literally think I’m lying when I said that I use neither and can kill turkeys. [/QUOTE]
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