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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When I first started chasing gobblers in the spring, very few people used decoys. Now many feel naked if they walk into the field without a turkey decoy or three. I hunted several years before getting ...

Few things are more exciting than the approach of spring turkey hunting. For many hunters, it marks the end of a long winter and a much-needed return to the field. Often, spring turkey is one of the ...

Of course you need to carry them and they might actually scare a turkey instead of attracting one, but use them right, and you might cash in. An error has occurred ...

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.

The reason you can't buy a suitable gift for anyone over the age of 50 is that for 50 years that "giftee" has spent every spare moment and dime accumulating everything they desired as a teenager, but ...

In this 'My Take' archive piece, Melissa Bachman answers a question about turkey decoy spreads. She shares her strategy for putting out decoys and then reading the flock to see if any tweaks are ...

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