Treestand Turkey Hunting

[freedomrules3]

This morning i was walking the edge of a field. i was scoping the field when i saw something that i had to laugh at. across the field there was a hunter sitting in his convienient boxblind on stilts with dekes below him. i could see him in the window opening of the blind and could hear his yelping. made me laugh and shake my head at how lazy the modern hunter is, dont even want to hunt turkeys the right way

[BillCartwright]

Several hunt this way. I know a guy that kills 2 birds every year in the spring sitting in a deer stand where a logging road enters a field. Birds follow the road into the field and he shoots them in the head.

In his mind he is hunting them the right way

[freedomrules3]

i guess i shouldnt say things like i did , if it gets their blood boilin more power to em . i prefer to be on foot runnin and gunnin stalking and getting busted .

[ncboman]

I've had em around me from time to time when deer hunting from my climber but I've never been able to draw without gettin busted.

[BillCartwright]

Rick, I didn't take your post the wrong way. I just know for many, sitting and waiting the birds out is the way they hunt them. I had a client Fri-Sunday and all he wanted to do was sit in a blind. We'd have 5-6 birds gobblig anywhere from 2-500 yards away and he didn't want to chase. It was very frustrating, but that is the way he wanted to hunt them.

[txm]

I have had the same with the hunters.
Some get a bird that way and many don't and all miss much of the fun of turkey hunting.

[ncboman]

I was talkin to a guy a few weeks ago about turkeys and he said he was going up in Va somewhere where they use rifles.

I ask him if he ever called any in and he said no, they like to get in early and shoot em off the limb.

Since he controlled my check, I just said, "hmmm, I never tried that before."

[ARO]

i personally have never hunted them from a stand before, i much prefer runnin and gunnin also. as long as it is legal in that state, i have no problem with anyone else doing it, to each there own.

i think if the same people called in a bird on there own, and had that bird gobbling, and closing the distance, whether they killed it or not. they would be hooked on the calling method forever!!

[BillCartwright]

They hunt them in Florida with rifles as well. Or at least it was still legal a few years ago while I was there. I have to scratch my head on the use of rifles, but oh well, if it is legal, it is legal. They catch em' in hog traps all the time down there as well.