I didn't think you'd enjoy watching us
I would support outlawing all male turkey decoys
I would not support outlawing male turkey decoys
I would rather outlaw male decoys than cut the limit
I would support outlawing fanning/reaping only
I hate new laws
I didn't think you'd enjoy watching us
Ain't no hurt feelings here. I was thinking you'd be the one having the laugh.
Worship the LORD, not HIS creation.
"No self respecting turkey hunter would pay $5 for a call that makes a good sound when he can buy a custom call for $80 and get the same sound."-NWiles
he said "perfect 2th" not "perfect, 2th"
so, HS was saying he has perfect teeth, not that I was perfect. Got it?
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
I don't have perfect teeth. I wouldn't want them, perfect teeth don't add character.
Just Do like a lot folks pull up to a field roll down your window and scream on box or a sick sounding mouth call 2 weeks before the season starts and then wonder why birds are call shy and scared to death!
i'm a fan of laughing at all the shit gene carries turkey hunting.
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
A Nation of Sheep Breeds a Government of Wolves!
Them that don't know him won't like him, and them that do sometimes won't know how to take him
He ain't wrong, he's just different, and his pride won't let him do things to make you think he's right
They don't put Championship rings on smooth hands
gene shy
Ugh. Stupid people piss me off.
Some use it as an excuse no doubt. Could be a 2 year old bird scared to come to a call because he's been whipped up on by a bigger tom as a reason or something else just a simple. I think if a tom is buggered enough they can be conditioned to pattern hunters. Most turkey hunters have run up on a few of those "special old birds". Makes the hunting more interesting and I for one believe there are some toms that become suspicious of hen calling if pressured enough. May simply stand and look for 5-10 minutes to see if a hunter is slipping down an open river bottom before he is convinced enough to answer. They don't live on our time schedule. If a poult can learn it's mother hen's cluck while it is still in the egg (less than 28 days to do so) then is it such a stretch to think that a tom a hunter keeps hammering away at all season could at some point begin to connect the sounds to danger? I've always thought the worst thing you can do is let a tom see you walking and calling so I take care to avoid that to keep from educating them. Likewise if I bump a tom and wasn't calling at the time I may just sit down for a while and attempt to call him up. Can tell you for a fact that it works part of the time in the second scenario and hardly ever/never in the first, usually takes another trip on another day. Same issues with preseason calling, just conditioning them to come to something that isn't there if it's done enough. I know there are plenty that don't agree. I just figure that's usually the guys who are more apt to move on and find another tom that will gobble instead of just investing the time to kill the tom they have suddenly lost touch with. I hunted through some seasons on WMA where we really truly had low numbers and if you found a tom you hunted him with whatever effort it took simply because it was more productive than trying to go find another tom. I mention WMA only to say that I had thousand upon thousands of acres to roam. I also hunted plenty of years where there was a gobbling tom in every river bottom flat. If you buggered one or he had hens you just moved maybe 300 yards up or downstream and you would very likely find another tom in the next flat, call him up and kill him. Hunt slow or run and gun, done plenty of both driven by circumstances and just saying all this to try to show I understand both perspectives. The March dates in the upstate before green up influences one of the worst things about early season IMO. Guys that walk and call in river bottoms on WMA. You can see a turkey at 200 yards but they can see you at 400 or more. No wonder a fella walking and calling his head off doesn't hear anything and thinks there aren't any turkeys. March 20th just means they start doing it two weeks earlier than normal and there is a longer conditioning period for toms to see hunters walking and calling. Not so much directed to you with all this Mike, just babbling on I guess, wasted effort.
Worship the LORD, not HIS creation.
"No self respecting turkey hunter would pay $5 for a call that makes a good sound when he can buy a custom call for $80 and get the same sound."-NWiles
And what happened to the legislation thread? I posted there and it went poof overnight? Geez.
Worship the LORD, not HIS creation.
"No self respecting turkey hunter would pay $5 for a call that makes a good sound when he can buy a custom call for $80 and get the same sound."-NWiles
I will just say that the term "call shy" is WAY over-used, IMO. Certainly, a turkey can become weary of certain situations in which he's had bad experiences.
Crops are harvested, animals are killed.
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