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Turkey Hunting; Decoys
Topic Started: Feb 25 2009, 09:32 AM (126 Views)
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HI Everyone,

Could someone assist me for the upcoming Turkey Season.

Is there any advantage in setting up more than 2 hen decoys or what would be the ideal setup.

Thanks for your time and assistance.

Gary
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Your going to get a tonne of responses for this one. I think what it comes down to is personal preferance. I either go with a single hen, or a single hen with an intruder jake. This year I'm going to give pretty boy a whirl.
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This year im tryin the Strutin Tom and bedded hen decoy set up. First year with it. had a friend who had amazing success last year. gonna give it a go with the Bow.
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I've been hunting turkeys since 1985 and although we usually carry decoys with us, we find ourselves leaving them in the truck most times. Your calling position (the place you set up) is more important than decoys.

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I have a strutting jake decoy that drives them wild.

I usually set up a hen decoy facing away and the strutting jake following her. When a tom sees a jake going after a hen he goes right after him.

I let a tom get right in on this decoy a couple years ago, just to see what he would do. He jumped up and laid the spurs to the deke. He was a big mature tom. The thing to remember though is that it may scare off another jake.

Here's what happened to my deke.
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The bird that did it.
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Just a word of advice using strutting decoys. If your only hunting aggresive Toms they work great, but if your hunting Jakes or less aggresive Toms a full size Tom decoy may hinder more than help. But if you go with a strutting Jake it works wonders for all male birds even the big ones. :cheers:
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I tried a jake decoy with my hen last year, it scared off two mature toms that came within 50yards of the set up. They just did not like the look of the jake deke. I left it home after them to episodes. I may try a different jake deke this year.

But you cannot go wrong with at least one hen deke.
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