Hunting technique poll results

[hbg1]

Category 1-30
Category 2-24
Category 3-1
Category 4- 9

what can we learn from these results?

 

[Bgoodman30]

Category 1-30
Category 2-24
Category 3-1
Category 4- 9

what can we learn from these results?

A lot of people lie.. Lol

 

[deerfever]

Probably not much as your survey sample size is not anywhere near big enough to determine much of anything pertaining to preference of turkey hunting style for TN. With that being said I don't know what your were trying to accomplish with this so you may have accomplished your goal from 64 responses on TNDEER.

 

[Southern Sportsman]

Category 1-30
Category 2-24
Category 3-1
Category 4- 9

what can we learn from these results?

Pray tell.

 

[Setterman]

The answer is absolutely nothing

 

[hbg1]

The answer is absolutely nothing

Almost like watching YouTube videos and concluding that everyone is hunting like that

 

[KPH]

i bet if you could get a honest poll across the state you would see a big change.

 

[Spurhunter]

Too many variables in modern turkey hunting to narrow it down to 4 categories. Some guys use a blind but detest bushwhacking. Some guys will use a hen decoy but detest fanning and strutting tom decoys.

I didn't answer because I'm mostly traditional, but if I'm hunting with someone and they want to stick out a hen decoy I'm not going to lose my mind. I'm not carrying them around with me though. I work for a living. I only get so many days to hunt. If it's raining on my off day I will absolutely pop up a ground blind to stay dry and comfortable. I don't enjoy burning up in a rain suit. If I know where he's going I will get in front of him and "call him in". Did I really call him in or bushwhack him? Who knows? The only legal means I am 110% against under any circumstances are fanning, strutting tom decoys, and limb lifting.

 

[clwg97]

Too many variables in modern turkey hunting to narrow it down to 4 categories. Some guys use a blind but detest bushwhacking. Some guys will use a hen decoy but detest fanning and strutting tom decoys.

I didn't answer because I'm mostly traditional, but if I'm hunting with someone and they want to stick out a hen decoy I'm not going to lose my mind. I'm not carrying them around with me though. I work for a living. I only get so many days to hunt. If it's raining on my off day I will absolutely pop up a ground blind to stay dry and comfortable. I don't enjoy burning up in a rain suit. If I know where he's going I will get in front of him and "call him in". Did I really call him in or bushwhack him? Who knows? The only legal means I am 110% against under any circumstances are fanning, strutting tom decoys, and limb lifting.

100% agree with Spur. Spur we still need to get in the woods together sometime. Maybe we will have a chance this spring.

 

[Spurhunter]

100% agree with Spur. Spur we still need to get in the woods together sometime. Maybe we will have a chance this spring.

I'd love to. I know you have a young family and commitments, but if you get a day or two to slip off shoot me a text. I'll be hunting a lot until I leave for Missouri April 27th.

 

[PossumSlayer]

I'm 1 an new to turkey harvesting and I always go with kiss regardless.

 

[timberjack86]

Not much except a some people on tndeer get it. This forum has always had a majority of traditional hunters imo

 

[hbg1]

Not much except a some people on tndeer get it. This forum has always had a majority of traditional hunters imo

Get it, lol

 

[timberjack86]

Get it, lol

Yeah you know, care about the resource. The wild turkey

 

[hbg1]

Yeah you know, care about the resource. The wild turkey

So anyone that ambushes a turkey or uses a decoy doesn't care about the resource?

 

[hbg1]

I don't understand the issue some of you have with a person that just goes hunting and uses whatever legal technique he chooses to kill a turkey. If it's legal, he enjoys it, and doesn't exceed the bag limit what is the issue? Hunting is about enjoyment, always has been for me.

 

[poorhunter]

I don't understand the issue some of you have with a person that just goes hunting and uses whatever legal technique he chooses to kill a turkey. If it's legal, he enjoys it, and doesn't exceed the bag limit what is the issue? Hunting is about enjoyment, always has been for me.

I don't understand what your qualifications are to disagree with the likes of Roost, Setterman, Andy and Mega. I am not in any way saying you are NOT qualified to say the things you've said but I do know what qualifications these fine men do. Their experience does not mean they are necessarily right but I would at least give them the benefit of the doubt. Adultery is legal and those that do it enjoy it and there's no bag limit...does that make it right? Those are not good arguments IMO.

 

[hbg1]

Disagree? What am I disagreeing about? They hunt their way and I will hunt mine, I just disagree with anyone saying their way is the "best" way, that is opinion. Follow Twra bag limits and guidelines and enjoy the hunting experience, don't complicate things.

 

[hbg1]

I don't understand what your qualifications are to disagree with the likes of Roost, Setterman, Andy and Mega. I am not in any way saying you are NOT qualified to say the things you've said but I do know what qualifications these fine men do. Their experience does not mean they are necessarily right but I would at least give them the benefit of the doubt. Adultery is legal and those that do it enjoy it and there's no bag limit...does that make it right? Those are not good arguments IMO.

Be very careful using other species as comparisons, I was shot in the head with tss for that one

 

[poorhunter]

Be very careful using other species as comparisons, I was shot in the head with tss for that one

I'm just arguing that just because it feels good doesn't mean it's right. I believe it was Debbie Boone in the 70's that asked the question "how can it be wrong if it feels so right?". She denied right and wrong based on emotions.

 

[hbg1]

I'm just arguing that just because it feels good doesn't mean it's right. I believe it was Debbie Boone in the 70's that asked the question "how can it be wrong if it feels so right?". She denied right and wrong based on emotions.

I really have a hard time understanding where you are coming from, please tell me what is wrong about anything I've said. If I hunt by the Twra guidelines what is wrong with that?

 

[poorhunter]

I really have a hard time understanding where you are coming from, please tell me what is wrong about anything I've said. If I hunt by the Twra guidelines what is wrong with that?

IF the use of decoys is detrimental to the turkey population (no matter what the TWRA says about decoy use) then using decoys is wrong for the resource. You said using decoys is right because it's legal. Debbie Boone's song exemplified a change in the thinking of people that has had profound consequences...like saying if it makes you happy then do it. My argument against using decoys comes from the angle that it is not sporting or challenging or character building no matter what the success rate is or whether it hurts the turkey population to a degree that there aren't enough turkeys to hunt anymore.

 

[poorhunter]

IF the use of decoys is detrimental to the turkey population (no matter what the TWRA says about decoy use) then using decoys is wrong for the resource. You said using decoys is right because it's legal. Debbie Boone's song exemplified a change in the thinking of people that has had profound consequences...like saying if it makes you happy then do it. My argument against using decoys comes from the angle that it is not sporting or challenging or character building no matter what the success rate is or whether it hurts the turkey population to a degree that there aren't enough turkeys to hunt anymore.

I would add that there is a more recent song that exemplifies the spirit of Debbie Boone well..."no right, no wrong, no rules for me. I'm free!" These are cultural shifts that need to be resisted in our own lives all the way down to how we turkey hunt.

 

[REN]

shooting one off roost at first light is also within TWRA guidelines. Doesn't make it right or sporting. Using a rifle in some states is legal, again doesnt make it right or sporting.

I really wish one day we could get away from "if its legal then do what makes you feel good". Legal doesnt always mean ethical or good for the sport or resource.

 

[hbg1]

IF the use of decoys is detrimental to the turkey population (no matter what the TWRA says about decoy use) then using decoys is wrong for the resource. You said using decoys is right because it's legal. Debbie Boone's song exemplified a change in the thinking of people that has had profound consequences...like saying if it makes you happy then do it. My argument against using decoys comes from the angle that it is not sporting or challenging or character building no matter what the success rate is or whether it hurts the turkey population to a degree that there aren't enough turkeys to hunt anymore.

So in other words you think your evaluation of the resource is more qualified than that of the Twra? Btw I almost never use decoys, not because I feel they are not sporting or because I would be low character but because they simply don't work. I've ruined more hunts with decoys than I care to mention.

 

[Dennis]

IF the use of decoys is detrimental to the turkey population (no matter what the TWRA says about decoy use) then using decoys is wrong for the resource. You said using decoys is right because it's legal. Debbie Boone's song exemplified a change in the thinking of people that has had profound consequences...like saying if it makes you happy then do it. My argument against using decoys comes from the angle that it is not sporting or challenging or character building no matter what the success rate is or whether it hurts the turkey population to a degree that there aren't enough turkeys to hunt anymore.

Which do you think would save more turkey lives banning decoys or banning turkey calls?

 

[poorhunter]

So in other words you think your evaluation of the resource is more qualified than that of the Twra? Btw I almost never use decoys, not because I feel they are not sporting or because I would be low character but because they simply don't work. I've ruined more hunts with decoys than I care to mention.

I think my evaluation of ethics is far better than TWRA's, yes.

 

[hbg1]

Which do you think would save more turkey lives banning decoys or banning turkey calls?

Excellent question? Remember the resource

 

[poorhunter]

Which do you think would save more turkey lives banning decoys or banning turkey calls?

Banning calls without question in my mind, although I think the trend would be towards banning decoys would save more because I think fewer hunters need calls if they use decoys. But again, my argument against using decoys doesn't hinge NECESSARILY of the protection of the resource. I would also say that if the success rate of using calls was anywhere near the success rate of decoys then they would have been made illegal decades ago.

 

[hbg1]

I think my evaluation of ethics is far better than TWRA's, yes.

Figures you would, narcissists