Turkey hunting has commanded our springtime calendars for the past two decades. We’ve chased gobblers throughout the United States and Mexico, hunting an average of 50 days across a half-dozen states ...

To be honest, I don’t know how many turkeys I’d killed before I set my first turkey decoys; probably a dozen or more. The way I was taught, the hunter made the yelps and the clucks and the purrs, and ...

I love decoys. I’ve got a half dozen turkey decoys in my garage and a whole basement full of duck and goose dekes. I enjoy setting decoys and trying to imitate how I think real birds would be ...

Absolutely, using turkey decoys is a major factor in successfully putting a spring gobbler down for the count. Time and again, however, hunters will swear they will never use a decoy again after an ...

At first glance, one might think that there is really nothing to putting out turkey decoys. Right? Just put the plastic replicas in a field, get yourself hid nearby and call. Birds see the decoys and ...

Some turkey hunters swear by turkey decoys. Others swear at them. Odds are, any turkey hunter with a few spring seasons behind him has done both. Employing fake turkeys certainly can improve a ...

A skinny "jake'' turkey decoy, left, and a flopped-over foam hen turkey decoy were enough to help lure in a nice tom turkey for John Myers in May near Barnum.