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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Over the years, I have heard good and bad things about using turkey decoys. One hunter will tell you the moment a tom sees a decoy, he comes running in to meet his mate and ends up meeting his maker.

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.