Baiting turkeys?
 

Not condemning the practice.....but just wondering how many of you hunt turkeys that are baited? It's illegal here in NC (though it's legal to bait deer).

To my knowledge......TX and KS both allow the practice. Which other states allow baiting turkeys?

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Hey if your using a call or a blind whats the difference? [:-]



















See that sounds just as stupid when talking about turkeys as it does when people spout it when talking about deer hunting.[:o]

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What about decoys?? Thats not bait?? ;)

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Let me ask another question.........

What do you think your success rate would be if you WERE allowed to (and chose to) bait turkeys?

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While we are changing the regulations are we allowed to hunt all day too???? Or only till Noon??

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About 99% there's always some idiot that still would show their blaring incompetence.:eek:

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Valid question. Would your odds go up 50%? More?

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As a percentage of hours added success would go up,and I think many more guys would hunt after work. Its not legal here in PA but patterning bird going to roost seems easy enough.

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In all honesty, If we could hunt in the afternoons I think my odds would go up, well beyond 50%.

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Hence my question. I don't agree or disagree with the practice....just wondering how others felt.

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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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:D

Dan

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You'll have a hard time selling that statement on this board.;)

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Not trying to sell it[8D]

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

Dan

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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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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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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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we feed them year round to keep them on our properties... but we do not hunt them over bait.