The perfect decoy deception can bring wary toms into gun or bow range. (Photo courtesy of Mossy Oak)
It doesn’t seem all that long ago that packable foam turkey decoys were ubiquitous additions to a hunter’s spring pack or vest. In those days, options were limited to jakes and hens, and apart from hunters dressing up decoys with skins and feathers from previously killed birds, there was little competition on the market. Turkey hunters simply made do with what they had.
Today’s hunters have exponentially more decoy options, many featuring stunning realism. The variety of turkey decoy styles and poses means there’s a solid fake for every hunting style, location, time of season and flock scenario. This is great given that the daily patterns of jakes and toms...