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sailordad:
CA, not calling you a liar
just wanted to see pics,you know how it is with the turkey addiction
just gotta see the dead bird  ;D

i dont worry about sitting with my back against a tree,or setting up for them to come from behind
back home here most all my hunting is done on field edges(lots of farm fields to hunt,not much woods)
so i use a double bull ground blind.if they can see me draw in there they deserve to walk away  ;)
as far as decoys go,our bow season is just starting.its the last two weeks of our 8 week gun season.
so a decoy can be your best friend or worst enemy.all depends on how hard pressured the birds your hunting have been before you got out there with a bow.
i had one season where the birds were so pressured.if they seen your truck parked near the trail,they would turn and run the other direction.
if they seen a blind or decoy,they would trun and run the other way.if they hear you call,they would turn and run the other way.
i keep an assortment of decoys with my in my pack,same with calls.
i usually play it by ear from day to day to see what the birds are liking at that particular time.
theres been times when i have set up blind with decoys and just left it sit.take my little ground stake blind and sit 60-70 yds away from my double bull.
this has been somewhat productive with heavily pressured birds from time to time.

well gotta get out in the woods today and try and scout some birds for next week end
i'll be chasing them with bow for two weeks,i have several bows to use and plan on switchng it up from day to day.even gonna take the wheelie bow with.
i learned last year to not leave the tack driver at home.i know folks on here dont much care for them.
but theres time when bow hunting turkeys where a wheelie tack drvier bow is a better choice than a stick bow
(sorry guys,but i like eating turkey and not turkey tags  ;D ),but i always have a stick bow with when i hunt with the wheelie.just in case the right opportunity appears in front of me.

nice thing about being a turkey hunting fanatic here in minnesota,is we have a spring and fall season.the spring you get 5 days to hunt out of forty if you get drawn in the lottery.the fall you get all of october to hunt if you get drawn in the lottery.spring i average about 1 out of 4 years to get a gun tag,fall i get a gun tag every year.
i always take a bow with in gun season,along with my trusty 835 ultimag.
i have yet to bring home a bow killed bird,but if they taste like the gun killed birds,its gonns be good when it happens  ;D

crooketarrow:
   I stopped gun hunting in 05. I killed 31 with a shot gun never used a rifle or a pop up. My OLD GRANDAD WOULD COME BACK AND HAUNT BE if I'd shoot one with a rifle. He was a true turkey hunter. Back in the early 80's when I got my first decoy he would'nt hunt with it and never would. He said thats ambushing something he refused to do.
    I also only hunt farm land and deal with field gobblers everyday. I never used popups I do use a home made ghille I made in 82. I use bottle necks just like deer hunting. IF I CAN I DO SET UP WITH MY BACK TO THE GOBBLER. Hard to break those old shot gun tactics. If you can see him he can see you. But I only set up where the gobbler has to go past be. Plus your calling away dose 2 things 1 helps him to not pin point you and he always thinks your going away.This helps to hurry him along. And I don't use my decoys to call the gobblers.
     I set up and call the gobbller to my decoys. Meaning I don't set them up where they can be seen form long distances. Gobblers see this type of set up all the time. Uselly the gobbler is 50 to 75 yards before he see's my decoys. He's already comited to your calls them when he see's the decoys he'll use'lly run right in. He's not use to seeing this set up. He's use to see's them for along ways off and for a long time. Doing it this way stops amost all hang ups. Of corse you have to get him come first. I don't set up where I can watch them out in the field struting all morning. This is all right to go home and say I saw 1 struting out in the fieldthis morning. That don't kill turkeys. Unless of course you have a rifle.
  Pressured gobblers around here knows what a blind out in a fields with a couple of decoys that never move is. Jakes and maybe a 2 year old might fall for it on a good day.

  SAILORDAD never took it as if you were calling me a lier.

JW_Halverson:
Sailordad and I are calling you out.  Anything to get a rise outa you and maybe get you to post some pics!

Congrats on this bird, hard work paid off sweetly!!!

gstoneberg:
Crooketarrow, you know I'm not a big turkey hunter, but I have to say that anybody who consistently shoots turkeys with a bow and doesn't use a pop-up blind is an awesome hunter.  I've done it one time and I was very lucky.  I'm impressed my friend.

George

JW_Halverson:
"Even a blind hog finds an acorn once in a while"  I killed a turkey once in the middle of a meadow while I was sitting in the open on an old pine stump, wasn't even wearing camo!  I wasn't wearing camo, I mean.  The stump was RealTree in the classic bark pattern.

But to consistently kill turkeys means you gotta understand the birds and their natural paranoia. 

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