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 ...

Set up your decoy within 20 yards, so if he does hang up, he will still be in range. For a post-breeding setup, we use a small group of hen decoys and call it, “hen party 3X.” For toms looking for ...

The background in the upland woods changes almost daily during gobbler season, from gray-brown, with no leaves, to green in the early going of the season. Leaves pop out and give us one more thing to ...

Today, turkey decoys are almost as important as our turkey calls, shotguns, shotshells, and vests. And, like each of these pieces of essential hunting gear, decoys are practically without number and ...

Just because we can shoot turkeys at longer ranges doesn’t always mean that we should. At its very best, turkey hunting is a close range game. Having a big old tom gobble and drum his way into 15 ...

Looking back over the decades of spring gobbler hunting, some of the old early truisms still stand the test of time, but others ... not so much. Hard to believe that it was 40 years ago this year we ...

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.

We asked our turkey experts to pick their favorite decoys to help fool spring gobblers. Here's what they carry with them in the woods We asked three of our turkey experts to pick some of their top ...