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What is your preferred turkey decoy set up?
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:32 am
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:32 am
This weekend is opening weekend in weatherford, tx. and i'll be attempting my first ever turkey hunt. Never really tried before but have watched enough vids and read up on how-to's. Was going to pick up a decoy or two this eveneing. For early in the season, would you recommend throwing out a few hens or a jake? Someone gave me a thunder chicken decoy so was planning on using that as well. Has anyone had any luck with that? And what is the best way to use a thunder chicken? Looks like it is best use to creep up on a gobbler. Thanks for the help
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Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:35 am to Spider John
I like an alert hen, a feeding hen, and a half strutting jake.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:36 am to Spider John
My preference is no decoy. The gobbler then comes looking for you. If forced to use them, 1 jake and 1 hen.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 9:37 am to Spider John
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:02 am to Spider John
decoys are generally too much of a pain in the arse unless you are hunting a large field in which you know the turkeys will be and just want them to come to one corner
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:06 am to Spider John
I probably use a decoy maybe 30% of the time. I think sometimes they can turn a gobbler (especially an old one) off and just not worth the hassle toting around.
That said, I exclusively hunt Easterns. Rio's in Texas are notoriously stupid (read: easy to kill) so a couple decoys out there won't hurt you.
To answer your question, I like a jake-hen setup. Hen facing away from me, Jake facing towards me with his back to where the gob is coming from
That said, I exclusively hunt Easterns. Rio's in Texas are notoriously stupid (read: easy to kill) so a couple decoys out there won't hurt you.
To answer your question, I like a jake-hen setup. Hen facing away from me, Jake facing towards me with his back to where the gob is coming from
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:07 am to GG_OZ_WM
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My preference is no decoy. The gobbler then comes looking for you. If forced to use them, 1 jake and 1 hen.
+1
Decoys facing away from the gobbler's location. Make him come look them in the eye.
I have a hen and a jake in my truck, where they have been for about the last 5 years since I used them last.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:34 am to tenfoe
It depends are what terrain you are hunting. If you can't see more than 50 yards because its so thick, forget the decoy. If you are hunting wildly open areas than as said decoys facing away. I would either use a single hen, or a jake and a hen or two.
Lot of guys use Strutting Tom's with great success but I'd only use those on private land with not very many hens and a lot of competition with Toms. A strutter will scare off jakes and non dominant Toms otherwise.
Lot of guys use Strutting Tom's with great success but I'd only use those on private land with not very many hens and a lot of competition with Toms. A strutter will scare off jakes and non dominant Toms otherwise.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:37 am to tenfoe
So if not using a decoy, do yall just go the night before and listen when they go up to roost, then set up there in the morning?
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:41 am to Spider John
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So if not using a decoy, do yall just go the night before and listen when they go up to roost, then set up there in the morning?
yes
but not too close
the best is to go the morning before and see where he goes after he flies down, then set up there away from his roost
being where he wants to go makes it so much easier than trying to get him to go where he doesn't want to go
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:41 am to Clyde Tipton
Yellow Yelped for the win.
I prefer a hen and a jake decoy in a 69 position.
I prefer a hen and a jake decoy in a 69 position.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:52 am to Spider John
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So if not using a decoy, do yall just go the night before and listen when they go up to roost, then set up there in the morning?
I don't. I go in the morning and listen to what turkey gobbles, then I go kill him. I very rarely try to roost a turkey in the evening. Slip in in the morning to the turkey that's either the most fired up or in the best location to approach, get as close as possible without bumping him off the limb. If I can call him off the limb and have him fly down and walk straight to me like the one I killed yesterday that's great. If he has hens with him you'll hunt him differently. Unless I'm hunting a 100 acre field where turkeys are hanging out a lot and the edges of the field don't allow me to move around, decoys really hinder my ability to do what I need to do. I'm not trying to get them on video at 20 yds in the open strutting though. I'm just getting within shotgun range of his head and neck and killing him.
Posted on 3/30/16 at 10:56 am to Spider John
Posted on 3/30/16 at 1:10 pm to cchoque93
Another question: the decoy i have and most of what cabelas has are eastern turkey deeks. The turkeys we have on our place our rios. Think that will be an issue?
Posted on 3/30/16 at 1:53 pm to Spider John
Nope
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