GaDeerSlayer
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Any of you duck hunt by chance? If so, am I wrong assuming that you would not do so with decoys? Seems if it's unethical to kill one bird while using decoys, the same should be true for all birds... 
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Question for the anti decoy turkey hunters
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MCNASTY
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I do duck hunt but usually not with decoys. Also I dont get into the fashion things or gimmicks in the hunting world.Good hen talk and woodsmanship goes a long way.
dtala
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it goes against the "traditional" way of turkey hunting. No blind, no decoys.
blong
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I don't use decoys turkey hunting but only because they seem to hang up on them. I try to trick a turkeys ears, I am trying to trick a ducks eyes. It may be wrong but I find a good turkey hunt to be far more valuable than a mallard shoot in the timber. You kill ducks where the ducks want to be, you kill turkeys by getting him where you want him to be.
They are totally different kinds of hunts to me. I probably could set up a decoy spread in a bean field and kill several turkeys every year but that would be just about as much fun and take as much woodsmanship as headlighting deer. JMO
They are totally different kinds of hunts to me. I probably could set up a decoy spread in a bean field and kill several turkeys every year but that would be just about as much fun and take as much woodsmanship as headlighting deer. JMO
MKW
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I do not duck hunt. I will tell you that I do not respect or admire any game animal as much as I do turkeys, so if I did duck hunt, I probably would not be opposed to using decoys.
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MCNASTY
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hang up
Good post !!
The hang up, I've seen just as many not come to decoys as I've seen come to them. Personally it's a hassle to lug the dekes around and it just doesn't fit my style of moving.
Good post !!
The hang up, I've seen just as many not come to decoys as I've seen come to them. Personally it's a hassle to lug the dekes around and it just doesn't fit my style of moving.
Coach Reynolds
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Good grief people. Use decoys or don't...there are bigger issues as hunters we need to worry about. I've had the pleasure of watching 4 turkeys go down this year. 2 of them were killed with decoys & 2 were killed without. Just hunt & enjoy the sport! You are no more of better a woodsman/hunter if you do or don't use decoys. A real woodsman respects the game, land & ensures that hunting will be around long after they're gone! A bigger issue is when we go to a WMA and see trash left in the camp or find trash in the middle of the woods that hunters were to sorry & lazy to pick up!
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The mtn man
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Anyone should agree with this, as for trash, I have wondered for many years, how do beer cans get way back in the woods, I have found beer cans way back in the mtns. here,weird!Now that's an issue that is worthy of discussion.Or bashing, or whatever.
Turkey Trax
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nope...its different
dawg2
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It really doesn't matter if it is legal. Actually, it really isn't anyone's business. Unless you are paying that person's bills, you don't have any say in the matter.
GLS
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At one time it was legal to use a live hen to hunt turkeys. Will the pro-decoy faction feel the same about "if it's legal, anything goes", once someone comes up with a life-like robotic hen? We are not that far away from it happening.
swalker1517
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And there ya go. Easy as pie.
Gator8em
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I wouldn't take a crutch from a one legged man, If you feel like you need'em use'em. It's a 50/50 at best. I will use them on occasion, generally on field birds that have been stubborn. Duck huntin is a whole different deal. If they didn't choose to fly everywhere, I wouldn't use decoys. I could set up by a pond a quack em in.
Any of you duck hunt by chance? If so, am I wrong assuming that you would not do so with decoys? Seems if it's unethical to kill one bird while using decoys, the same should be true for all birds...
Kinda like why using bright spot lights to hunt at night isn't ethical or legal for all mammalian game animals.
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