why do experts suggest to set up a turkey blind in the open as opposed to blending in and hiding it?
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why do experts suggest to set up a turkey blind in the open as opposed to blending in and hiding it?
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It's a good question, hunter mom. I recommend setting up a blind in relatively open country because if there was cover then I wouldn't need it. I use a blind to give me cover in a place where I'd be in the wide open without one. Like Mike and huntcamp both note, turkeys don't seem to be too rattled by a blind, but have noticed them get a little shy around a blind that all of a sudden appears in a wide-open place. I try to set it up around some existing cover, and I always make sure to use decoys - seems to take the attention off the blind. I just got back from a weekend turkey hunt and we had no choice but to set a blind up near the middle of an alfalfa field. It was where the gobblers were strutting and they didn't want to come to the cover where we were the first day. So we set the blind up near a skinny old dead tree and the turkeys didn't seem to mind. We killed a gobbler this morning.
Andrew McKean
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