![]() Yelps often sound as though they came from a 300-pound hen. The acoustics of turkey calling inside a ground blind will be somewhat shocking to the uninitiated. Short of a menagerie of dekes around the hide, I’ll always set one or two-often just a pair of relaxed hens-at a distance appropriate for the shotgun or archery equipment being used. There are times when multiple decoys can do the trick in spring, and being able to stash 8 to 12 fakes in a set blind, without having to pack them from place to place throughout the morning, is quite a convenience. When Shaun arrowed his gobbler that morning, it was standing atop the by-then-flattened full-strut decoy looking not unlike Rocky Balboa atop the steps outside the Philadelphia Museum of Art-and at 5 yards, no less. The spread, as Shaun called it, consisted of a full-strut gobbler, two jakes off to one side and nine hens in various poses-upright, feeding, walking, dusting/breeding-scattered around randomly, none of which were more than 10 steps from the windows of the blind. I’m in no hurry, and often I’ll enjoy encounters with multiple gobblers over the course of a morning-not all of which, it’s hoped, will ignore my decoy presentation.īut what sort of decoys, and how many? One spring, for a friend shooting a homemade longbow and hand-carved cedar shafts, I set a dozen decoys in front of our Double Bull. Tucked away inside a blind, I have the luxury of time and concealment. From a ground blind, however, I always use decoys. Again, it all depends on the situation, the bird, the time of year, the pressure and other variables. ![]() When hunting without a blind, I could go either way on using decoys. ![]()
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