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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

In 20 years of turkey hunting with a traditional bow, Marty Mann said he's probably had as many hits as misses. "It's not a hunt where you go out and get one with the first shot," said Mann, 61, of ...

The very best turkey decoys today are more like works of art than pieces of hunting gear. They are incredibly realistic, and if you love turkeys like I do, then they’re nothing short of beautiful. But ...

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 ...

For spring gobblers, Jake and Suzie Snood can be as deadly in today’s turkey woods as Bonnie and Clyde were to Midwestern law enforcement officers in the 1930s. No, the Snoods are not actually toting ...

In the deadly serious game of venatic chess that is spring turkey hunting, a match that recently played out on a mesquite/live oak flat overlooking the Llano River concluded in a draw. It just as ...

Somewhere over the hill, a gobbler wound his way through the shinnery oak, mesquite, catclaw and yucca, moving slowly toward the gravel slope that fell away into the broad valley marking the ...