Ain't no way I would do that.

Probably wouldn't even work on Alabama birds.

Ill go with you, ill film!!!! I promise to only let you get flogged till the battery runs dead or you are near death

a whole lot of missing going on in that video.

I've seen it done on Rio's and work. Seen it work on an Eastern with 2 hen decoys. There is no way in HEdouble hockey sticks I would even think about doing that ANYWHERE in Alabama, private or public land, unless I had a kevlar body cast on.

Lol! I'd do the same for you!
I'll grab that mofo and ring his fool neck if I got witnesses and a video camera! (unless he's sporting gaffs)

No way. Only BHamFred is man enough to do that.

He may be the only one man enough to kill it, but he ain't the only one dumb enough to try!

Chit only works on tame turkeys.

Had myself and a kid that plays d line behind a jake mobile last year on an Alabama bird and killed it at 30 yds. It was a wierd situation, never intended to crawl the bird but only go through the middle of a pasture with a brush pile between us and the turkey. We were pretty much at the pile and we look up and there is the bird in full strut and we had no choice but to lay there and wave the decoy at him! It was a blast! We had three different birds at 60 yds that morning including the one we killed.

Y'all can HAVE IT; I've seen my poor ole FeatherFlex jake get flogged & pecked & tortured so many times that I don't want to run the risk of a bird sashaying up the barrel & doing a number on top of my HEAD & giving me a head-ache!!

I'll pass... But, I do have a buddy that's HUNG UP on that Chicken-on-a-Stick thing... I told him I eat my chickens SMOKED & deep-fried, not on a stick!!

BGD

I got into a pretty spirited debate with a guy from Old Gobbler last year about this very topic. He pretty much had the same opinion as you and didn't mind speaking out on the topic. I will tell you the same thing I told him...... The practice is not new, it's been around for a long, long time. Nowhere and never in the United States is there a documented case of someone being shot while fanning. Every single year there are documented cases of hunters being shot or killed while sitting against a tree calling. That my friend is FACT!

I will dig up that thread when I get a little time. The guy I was debating with went right into defense mode and then started the insulting and name calling. I pretty much just quit with the debate then..... No matter how much you reason with people, sometimes you find an idiot that just can't be reasoned with.

I ain't stupid enough to grab an unrestrained grown gobbler. Pretty sure it would make a great video of you getting yer ass whipped good and proper. The one I hand killed was tangled up in honeysuckle vines and unable to flog and spur my ass.

BC, my brother has been crawling gobblers in south Fl for years w/o a decoy. He says they will walk up to you or just stand there and watch you belly slide up to very close range. Not me. Have you seen the size of those Eastern Diamondback Rattlers they have down there????

I sure have. I've used to have an Eastern skin about 82 inches long. Not something I would want to crawl up on. I've never fanned one or even tried it, but I think it would be cool to try at least once. I might give it a shot in Nebraska this season.

Not shot I'm doing that any where. Private land, public, the middle of a 100acre pasture. I value my life

So you are afraid of something that has a 0% accident rate?

I'm not scared of the turkey. Im afraid of getting shot by some yahoo that cant tell its a decoy.

Ok..... but it's never happened. The practice has been around for 30+ years and nobody has ever been shot doing it. I'm sure one of these days it might happen, but it happens multiple times a season with people just sitting up against a tree calling. Nobody on here is afraid to do that.


Here's my debate with the guy if anyone cares to read it.

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The click linky didn't work for me... Listed the full URL above...

I remember this thread last year on OG; seems like I got into some "tussles" with a few folks who are no longer on there, as well... But, ya, "fanning" is not new, and I guess if somebody wants to do it, more power to 'em...

BGD

I hunt alot with a guy that is about 5 feet 2 inches tall. It is cool watching him do it on a 200 acre alfalfa field. I am 6'2 258 lbs so fanning isn't an option for me. I could probably fan an ostrich but I look like a camo angus trying to breed the decoy out in a field.