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Started by JuniorPre 360, March 12, 2014, 10:56:24 AM
Quote from: jwhunter on March 13, 2014, 11:28:51 AMThere is nothing wrong with what they are doing.
Quote from: the Ward on March 13, 2014, 06:17:14 PMI wonder if this "crew" has thought of using a slab of bacon wrapped around their heads and try bear hunting like that. Guaranteed u-tube video stardom....
Quote from: GobbleNut on March 13, 2014, 06:05:54 PMTo me, I think the bigger issue here is not so much about the video, or the method, or how ethical it is. It is more about whether it should be a legal method of killing turkeys. If this method of hunting became commonplace,...which I have no doubt it will for a lot of folks,...how much of an impact will it have on gobbler numbers? Is it possible to kill so many gobblers out of a population doing something like this that we have to regulate against it? Will gobblers learn to avoid other gobblers after a few years of hunters doing this? Who knows for sure?Again, to me, this is just the next step beyond fanning, which is the next step beyond using a strutting gobbler decoy to attract gobblers. Do we outlaw each of those methods, too, because someone figured out that this would work so well?Ultimately, there are some hard choices we are going to have to make as turkey hunters. Are we going to have to go back to regulations that prohibit the use of decoys at all, or any kind of "attractant" that provides a visual stimulus to make turkeys approach? I'm not sure what the answer is, but I know that we are very quickly getting away from the allure of spring gobbler hunting that attracted many of us older guys to the sport in the beginning,...that is learning to make turkey sounds that would make gobblers come to the call. But, then again, who is to say that the calling of turkeys is the only way it should be done?As I said, we, as turkey hunters, are going to have to make some hard choices about all of it.