Early season, hen or jake/gobbler decoy?

[TheRealSpurhunter]

Whats your favorite early season? I have personally had good luck with a jake decoy.

 

[Setterman]

None

 

[ruger7mag]

None

X2

 

[Boll Weevil]

x3

 

[deerhunter10]

x4 but if I did set it up it would be a hen and jake. I would never ever use a strutter.

 

[TN Whitetail Freak]

Ive had nothing but success with b mobile strutter

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

x4 but if I did set it up it would be a hen and jake. I would never ever use a strutter.

Dang, lots of anti-decoy users here.
This was my daughters first bird, back from the 08 youth season.

 

[Recoil]

I generally start the early season with 3 or 4 toms strutting around 10-12 hens in various stances and throw in at least a couple of jakes looking on. If this fails to draw them in I might occasionally use one of my 8 calls to send out a yelp. But it really depends on the weather. If it's a little cool, I often will just keep my little buddy heater on with the tent blind windows closed until it warms up and my bacon and eggs are done.

 

[Gravey]

Most of the time I carry hens but rarely use them. Have a strutter but birds always ran from it so I never use it these days.

 

[deerhunter10]

that is a very nice. I hunted over decoys before and just never have had luck and just wasn't my thing. im not going to bash anyone using them at all though.

 

[Dover_Mike]

i never use decoys. I have had turkeys come out of strut and run out of the area when they saw the decoy. I threw mine in the garbage after that.

 

[JAY B]

Time and place for everything!

 

[drrxnupe]

I killed my first bird over a 2 hen and jake decoy setup. My second bird was taken without decoys.

 

[muddyboots]

I don't use them but my father in law will put out b-mobile and stay put. he does very well. Just not my style.

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

I will say I have had very little luck with decoys, I use the Hazle Creeks early with kids, but havn't had much luck after that so I just dont bother at all.

 

[TheRealSpurhunter]

I generally start the early season with 3 or 4 toms strutting around 10-12 hens in various stances and throw in at least a couple of jakes looking on. If this fails to draw them in I might occasionally use one of my 8 calls to send out a yelp. But it really depends on the weather. If it's a little cool, I often will just keep my little buddy heater on with the tent blind windows closed until it warms up and my bacon and eggs are done.

While its pretty clear you despise decoys and meant this comment as a slap to all that own/use them, its actually pretty funny and made me chuckle! Kuddos sir!

 

[String Music]

Jake decoy. Easier to carry than a strutter and more effective in my experience.

 

[Recoil]

I use decoys and make no apologies for it. I hunt the woodline of a 10 acre field and am a terrible caller. I limited out last year so it works for me. BTW, I put out 2 or 3 hens and a Jake--the Tom's can't stand that setup!

 

[UTGrad]

I exclusively bow hunt turkey from a blind so I use decoys as my strategy. Bump this to the top.

 

[Hunt 365]

Had a semi strut jake with 2 hens this Saturday - 2 gobblers came in.. Didn't like it. Left the jake alone and took up hens. Wasn't 30 min later, 4 came running in and tried to thrash decoy. Going with lone jake again this weekend. This was an afternoon hunt in a big clover field. Often I don't use any