RE: Bobgobble's awesome Idea...Safety First thread!!
As you may be able to tell from my screen name I hunt turkeys & all other types of game w/bow & arrow only. I have been stalked by fellow turkey hunters several times. I use a double bull blindalong with several motion decoys, and always hunt public lands.
Ihave also be approched by others, watcha' dooin' "Oh" I'm sorry... Last season in Minnesota, last day of my hunt. 2 bird watchers got to within 50 yards of my Hazel Creek Hen before the wife says, Honey I think there is a guy over there. Two years ago same state, different place, two teen boys belly crawled thru a alfalfa field to my set up & bummped a Gobbler that was betwen me & them. We do it onGeese all the time...
Most of my set ups are now out in open fields. If I do set up on a wooded edge I use a orange saftey flag on top of my blind. I also stopped using motion decoys, Michigan has banned them.
I have found thebest place to hunt is a small WMA in Minnesota that isArchery only no guns allowed.
I have nothing against them, but it's like bow hunting during the gun deer season...