How many would feel safe using one of these?
12-27-2017, 12:14 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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Location: south eastern PA
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12-27-2017, 02:49 PM
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Boone & Crockett
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As much as I love hunting and have since before I was old enough to do it, I don't love it enough to make myself look like legal game knowing there are people out there who wouldn't give a second thought to shooting at those things for real game. I would give your life expectancy about as long as a night crawler on a driveway when a flock of robins landed if you were to use the turkey decoy in front of your face while hunting turkey in PA. There are some things that may be ok, if you are the only person for miles where you are hunting but in PA, no way I would chance it. The native Americans would drape a deer hide over them when stalking deer, today, that would be a death sentence.
12-27-2017, 03:39 PM
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Dominant Buck
Join Date: Dec 2004
Location: On an Island in Vermont
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If someone had a large tract of private land and absolutely nobody else could get on it I image it could be useful. About the only application I could think of where it might be somewhat safe would be speed goat hunting on private land where you could see if anyone else was there. Here in the northeast things are too tight.
01-07-2018, 03:47 AM
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Fork Horn
Join Date: Sep 2009
Location: Tug Hill NY
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I watched the videos, and perused the website for the decoys. It appears to me it intended to be used like a blind, as well as a decoy. the shooter being able to shoot through it, as well as view through it, but nowhere on the website does it show that. I am thinking they themselves wouldn't recommend such foolish behavior.
01-07-2018, 03:53 PM
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Location: Northern California
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I hunt private land and even then would not use this. If I were on public land, absolutely no way. Might be fun to place one of these around a game camera to see what you get pics of though. 
