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Old 04-07-2008 | 06:50 AM
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Finding a bird is easy, calling them in is easy...who needs bait ???
Hence my question. I don't agree or disagree with the practice....just wondering how others felt.

In all honesty, If we could hunt in the afternoons I think my odds would go up, well beyond 50%.
Why "more" than 50%? I mean....it's 50% more hunting. Do you think there's something easier about hunting them going to the roost i.l.o. from?


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Old 04-07-2008 | 06:53 AM
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Not legal any where I hunt, but I fail to see the point. You are always hunting some sort of Bait, Food, calls, decoys, hot does, and on and on

I've hunted Bears over Bait and it is anything but a Gimme killing a boomer size bear.

Not so tough if you wanna arrow Boo-Boo

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Old 04-07-2008 | 06:55 AM
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You are always hunting some sort of Bait,
You'll have a hard time selling that statement on this board.
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Old 04-07-2008 | 06:57 AM
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ORIGINAL: GMMAT

You are always hunting some sort of Bait,
You'll have a hard time selling that statement on this board.
Not trying to sell it[8D]

I'm always hunting close to something my Game wants!

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Old 04-07-2008 | 07:12 AM
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Why "more" than 50%? I mean....it's 50% more hunting. Do you think there's something easier about hunting them going to the roost i.l.o. from?
Well my odds .. right now I'm on the fence if I buy a $24 license for 4 or so available morning sits. So just buying a license takes me up to 50% (from 0%).

Plus as I've said on a couple threads already. I know where the birds are in the evening, I see them often enough. Mornings I'm at work, I know where they go and assume how they get there..but haven't seen it.

So, Yes, I think that afternoon birds are much easier and I'm guessing several States feel that way also, hence the regulations. [:-]
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Old 04-07-2008 | 07:16 AM
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And honestly..to the point of this question throw in "bait" as something the hunter adds for the sheer purpose of bringing the turkeys to a certain location.

It'd be like shooting fish in a barrel. MHO.
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Old 04-07-2008 | 07:35 AM
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I enjoy going after the birds and trying to call one in. Sitting and waiting over a corn pile, to me, would be boring.

Have at it if it is legal in your state though, just not for me.
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Old 04-07-2008 | 09:12 AM
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we feed them year round to keep them on our properties... but we do not hunt them over bait.

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