Early in the spring season, when turkey flocks are still in winter formation,
your one or two decoys may not be enough to attract a gobbler. So produce a
flock. Borrow a collection of assorted dekes from your close friends. Buy cheap
foam models from the sale bin at your sporting-goods store. Resurrect tattered
veterans from the back of your gear closet. Just as with field spreads for
geese, make sure you have a mix of feeding, sentry, and loafing turkey decoys.
And leave room in the middle as a “landing zone ” for incoming gobblers.
This
flock approach won’t always work, but the time to try it is now, in the first
days of the new seasons, especially if your area has a late winter that keeps
the real turkeys bunched up and wary.Here’s a guideline to when fake flocks work,
1) Flock Up
When you're hunting an open field, set up a big flock of decoys and wait for your actors to get attention. The birds will come to you-eventually-though it may be later in the day when the flock hits the field to feed.A big flock can look like real birds dispersing after feeding.
Near bottlenecks, and strut zones, the big-flock approach provides blind-shooting situations for many hunters.
As summer approaches, Make use of a small number of jake or adult ben fakes as the breeding stage fades.
2 . Size Down
If you pursuit mountainous surfaces,Especially if you pursuit within watch of a street. Even more than a small number of decoys attracts the incorrect kind of attention.
Pass on Strategies
- Encircle a gobbler decoy with a big chicken harem. Encounter the gobbler toward a jake decoy installing a belly-down chicken. This agreement will enrage a gobbler that feels a risk to his prominence.
- This issues the prominence of a territorial gobbler.
- This agreement suggests subordinate position.
- Group a good sized chicken decoy with smaller chicken decoys. This agreement suggests a problem to a territorial employer chicken. A strutter is certainly most likely to stick to.
- With make-believe hens nearby. Contact a series of intense purrs. Turkeys like a great combat.
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