Safety is the most paramount of concerns when using a longbeard decoy to reap turkeys. When practiced safely in the right setting, the hunting technique provides big springtime smiles for hunters like Warren Holder. (Photo courtesy of David Holder)
By Lynn Burkhead, OutdoorChannel.com
During the season, reaping turkeys is one of the surest ways to march onward and upward towards filling a wild gobbler tag.
So says Outdoor Channel personality David Holder, co-host of Raised Hunting along with his wife, Karin, and two sons, Easton and Warren.
The tactic, which Holder says works on just about any wise old boss gobbler out there, can bring surprisingly high-success rates, even in the final days of the season when hunters are in a last-ditch effort to avoid eating an unused turkey tag.
Holder says reaping...