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Exposed Turkey Blind?

Trigger50

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I need a confidence boost! I've read that you can setup a turkey blind right out in the open but it just goes against my basic hunting instinct. Tomorrow my turkey season begins. This morning I scouted a large flock w 5 toms out in the middle of a large cut corn field. I'm not sure which side of the field they roosted on. And I'm scared to bust them off the roost if I set the blind on the field edge. So I'm thinking about just putting it in the middle of the field w a couple decoys. Good idea? Or risk setting up close to the roost on the field edge? I won't be able to scout them tonight because I work 2nd shift .
 
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It works pretty well, I've scouted that way but never setup to hunt that way. In an area with hay bales it looks essentially the same.
 
Big old blind in the middle of the field is not a problem. Turkeys seeing you set the blind from the roost is. Make sure it's dark and your not to loud.
 
Set it up and kill a big one, as they aren't like deer with the need to get them habituated to it for a length of time. Good luck!
 
Big old blind in the middle of the field is not a problem. Turkeys seeing you set the blind from the roost is. Make sure it's dark and your not to loud.

Sure right about the dark and quiet! Depending on the contour of the field and how high the birds are roosting it may be easier to skylight yourself on one side of your field than the other. Even on the darkest of mornings it is easy to get busted if you are standing there with nothing but sky behind you.
 
Well...At this point I think that ive decided to forgo to blind and slip in about 5 am and just put a couple decoys out and sneek alittle into the thick cedars. Hopefully if they notice me in the dark, they will think that I'm a deer.
 
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Update. Opening morning we snuck in close to where we thought the birds might be roosted. No gobbling but 8 hens and 1 Tom flew down 100 Yds from us. We couldn't pull them into our decoys or calling. Around lunch time we had a hot gobbler coming into my calling but a hen swooped in and stole him! The same flock came back in the evening but they decided to roost on a different field we can't hunt. Day 2, we tried a different farm but no gobbling or action. At 8 am we drove back to the 1st farm and there was 5 Jake's in our field. One Jake was gobbling. So we each took a different side of the field and made big loops to get in front of them. I was able to call the 5 Jake's right into 20 Yds. ��
 

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Well done!! Next Wednesday is the opener here. Looks like I'll be mowing the lawn with my call in my mouth. That should get the neighbors to talking about me! :D
 
Good work! Ain't no shame in killing jakes, I love it loL!! as long as he puts on a show 3" beard or 12" beard it's going down
 
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