Reading some of these comments about shooting a turkey at 50-60 yards what is wrong with it? If you know your turkey combo can take a hung up bird out at 50-60 yards then by all mean go for it or if you can make an ethical harvest then go for it (within reason). And for the people saying it is not hunting to do that let me ask this is it hunting to shoot a deer at 300 yards with a scope and a rifle? Use deer pee, calls, advanced bullets such as a ttsx so you can use a smaller caliber to take larger game, hunting over food plots, and the list goes on.... You can say this is hunting but it doesn't take skill to blow in a grunt tube, make a turkey sound with a diaphragm, make and elk bugle from tube, sit over a food plot, etc. What takes skill is when an individual can actually make these sounds with out these devices to assist them. And who cares this doesn't do any harm to the hunting industry.
What makes the industry look bad is when you have people arguing over other hunters about if it is right or wrong because you feel it is right or wrong. If it can be done ethically and has been proven and the hunter knows his/her abilities then go for it. Not everyone can call a Turkey in to 20 yards and when you take kids and disabled hunters hunting that can be a once and a lifetime hunt it makes it just a little easier to have a little success on their end.
The more companies come out with hunting products, the more a user will buy, in turn the more will go to conservation. Example the Pittman-Roberson Act the more money spent on "sporting rifles", ammunition, arrows, parts, and accessories the more money gets turned over for conservation of wildlife. So I say have fun and goodluck! Hunters are the number 1 conservationists.
Last edited by Brandon_SPC; 01-16-2016 at 12:43 PM.