This option is meant to look like some birds are leaving the food plot or field opening and heading back into the forest or brush. Assuming you are concealed on the edge of the opening, position a few walking hen decoys facing the woods near the edge of the wood line, with a jake turkey decoy in hot pursuit.
Use the spring hormones against a gobbler by drawing out its fighting side. Position a tom and jake turkey decoy facing each other as if they are establishing the pecking order. Scatter one or two feeding or upright hen decoys around the duo. Then rely on fighting purrs and wing thrashes to draw a battle-ready gobbler into range. Of course, the most aggressive and urgent display is an actual breeding attempt.
Position a submissive hen decoy directly on the ground and immediately in front of a jake turkey decoy. Face the duo to your left or right, towards wherever you anticipate a turkey to approach. Make sure to prepare your turkey hunting gear before you even begin to set up decoys.
Get very comfortable with your Hoyt bow grouping over the winter months and make any fine-tuning adjustments sooner than later. Make sure you do enough scouting to know there are birds present before you just set up in a field.
It helps to use locator calls to roost gobblers the night before a hunt. Make sure to not forget your turkey decoy stake to hold decoys in place, especially in windy weather.
Also, practice your calling Bone Collector Turkey Calls well in advance of your hunt, so you actually sound like a turkey and not a wounded rabbit. Keep them in a quality camouflaged canvas bag to avoid getting scratched and dented.
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Yes No. OK Cancel. Solution: Use a jake decoy instead of a tom to tone down the dominance display. The closer to breeding season a turkey gets, the less tolerant he becomes of his competition. Using a tom may spook subordinate birds that have been roughed up already. However, they will see a jake decoy as a chance to redeem themselves.
If your decoy is placed 40 yards away, then a gobbler may not come within Solution: Place your decoys yards from your location. If a gobbler hangs up at 40, you still have a chance. Take a buddy who can sit back near the decoy and call to draw the bird closer to you.
For some reason, many hunters like to place their decoy directly in front of them, which is the sight line for most approaching gobblers. He may even pick out your silhouette. Solution: Offset the position of the decoy to your shooting side.
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