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<blockquote data-quote="woodsman04" data-source="post: 5337637" data-attributes="member: 19488"><p>I used to not care what anyone used. I never used them first of all because they were illegal when I was young, they looked dumb, and I didn't want to carry them.</p><p>Then they became popular. And just watching how they marketed them on TV and how easy it looked just turned me off. Still though I never worried about them. </p><p></p><p>But what made me hate them has been the last decade or so how so many folks have begun to shoot turkeys and lots of them and brag about it. It's unsporting. Nothing more to add. And lots of the decoy folks get really offended when you speak out about how much easier they make it. Just because it's legal don't make it ok. </p><p></p><p>Anyways with ducks, I'm not a duck hunter first of all. But the sport of duck hunting is setting out your decoy spread in a realistic fashion, and calling birds and working them to land into your decoy spread. When they commit, you get up and shoot them. Real duck hunters don't swing shoot or sky bust or shoot birds that didn't commit.</p><p> The sport of turkey hunting is similar in the way that you work the bird, call him into shotgun range looking for a hen, and shooting him. If you set up wrong he hangs up out of range or sees you or spooks another way. Decoys take that element out and makes it easier. Fanning and decoying pasture birds is equivalent to sky busting or swing shooting ducks. Yea you killed the bird, great. But did you do it right?? Heck no. Sporting and fair?? Nope.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="woodsman04, post: 5337637, member: 19488"] I used to not care what anyone used. I never used them first of all because they were illegal when I was young, they looked dumb, and I didn’t want to carry them. Then they became popular. And just watching how they marketed them on TV and how easy it looked just turned me off. Still though I never worried about them. But what made me hate them has been the last decade or so how so many folks have begun to shoot turkeys and lots of them and brag about it. It’s unsporting. Nothing more to add. And lots of the decoy folks get really offended when you speak out about how much easier they make it. Just because it’s legal don’t make it ok. Anyways with ducks, I’m not a duck hunter first of all. But the sport of duck hunting is setting out your decoy spread in a realistic fashion, and calling birds and working them to land into your decoy spread. When they commit, you get up and shoot them. Real duck hunters don’t swing shoot or sky bust or shoot birds that didn’t commit. The sport of turkey hunting is similar in the way that you work the bird, call him into shotgun range looking for a hen, and shooting him. If you set up wrong he hangs up out of range or sees you or spooks another way. Decoys take that element out and makes it easier. Fanning and decoying pasture birds is equivalent to sky busting or swing shooting ducks. Yea you killed the bird, great. But did you do it right?? Heck no. Sporting and fair?? Nope. [/QUOTE]
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