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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

There are many tactics to lure that big old weary longbeard into shotgun range. Obviously, every turkey hunter in the woods uses some type of call, but hunters often have mixed thoughts on the use of ...

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 ...

This spring's turkey season started out in the New Hartford Cabela's as I studied a display of dozens of different decoys. Spring turkey hunting is eagerly awaited every year, and this season I hope ...