It's probably safe to say that when hunting in agricultural areas, blinds make real good sense. But I hunt western public lands (for everything), where the birds are generally too scattered and moving all the time, and often too far back in, to make a blind workable. I just wear my usual dark plaid shirts and a face mask and look for a comfortable spot in the shade with a dense brush background. I'm rarely busted that way. My two problems with trad turkey hunting have been the same for years -- the need, often, to be able to hold at full draw for long periods, and difficulty of finding birds after they're shot. For the first, I build special short, light-draw turkey bows. For the second, I use huge heads and try to "pin" the bird to something like a tree or a dirt bank, so the arrow stays in and the birds is prevented from running or flying. I really love roaming the spring woods for turkeys and morels and would never be happy in a blind. To each his own fun.
Topic: turkey hunting (Read 815 times)
