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Post by woodmaster on Jan 7, 2009 18:30:46 GMT -5
If you hunt from a blind you have to get one of these. They are expensive but worth it. Last year was the 1st year I used a mounted decoy. I had a gobbler run into the decoy but wouldn't "attack" it like I've seen on T.V. After I killed him I found out why. He had a big rip down his breast from a spur. He didn't want his butt kicked again. The next time I used it a gobbler ran in and I had to shoot him off the decoy. Dad used it next and while he was reading the paper he heard a "FLOP,FLOP". A gobbler had came in silent and was beating up my decoy. My taxidermist has both the jake and hen for sale. I think he is getting $375 each. Cally Morris in Missouri sells them for $515.  |
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 7, 2009 19:27:17 GMT -5
Dad used it next and while he was reading the paper he heard a "FLOP,FLOP". A gobbler had came in silent and was beating up my decoy. Actually it was three gobblers that came in and attacked the decoy. I had not heard a bird all morning so I was having a cup of coffee and reading the paper when they all three attacked..I heard WHOOP! WHOOP! WHOOP! and I looked up to see all three flogging the decoy. I had to put on my hearing protection, get the gun up and pick out one without shooting the other two birds and not hit Woodmaster's decoy. Finally one jumped back a few feet and left me an opening. Even after I shot the other two still wanted to whip the decoy. That is until I came out of the blind and tehn t was bye-bye. Yes, it works BIG TIME.. |
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Post by danimal8876 on Jan 8, 2009 1:56:56 GMT -5
Thats an awesome decoy! Ive really wanted to buy one of the B-Mobile or Tommy Boy types of decoys the last couple years, install one of my old fans and give it a go, but haven't yet. I hunt about half the time on public ground and would be worried about getting peppered by someone else mistaking my decoy for the real thing...
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Post by mullis56 on Jan 8, 2009 15:26:55 GMT -5
Yep I have one and they work magically! Get one if you can afford it and sit in a blind makes for a great hunt!
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Post by hp on Jan 8, 2009 18:57:24 GMT -5
$375 for a Turkey decoy?  haha something else to pack out there, NOT ME!!! |
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Post by hoosierwilk on Jan 9, 2009 18:47:45 GMT -5
I can see why it works. Looks like the real thing. It would be interesting to try one sometime just to see how it works. Little expensive for me plus I just seem to move around to much to have something like that to use. hw
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Post by songdog on Jan 10, 2009 9:40:15 GMT -5
I hardly ever hunt turkeys from a blind . Too boring for me . I see it on TV all of the time and can't help but think that people are missing all of the fun of the run and gun type of turkey hunting that I really love to do.
Sometimes I will need to set up on the edge of a field and build myself a blind out of stick and brush but if I hear a bird I always go to him.
I still like the decoy but a little steep for me.
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Post by Woody Williams on Jan 10, 2009 10:09:54 GMT -5
No doubt "running and gunning" is more fun, but in this day and age where a lot of ground is tied up some peopel get left with 40 acres or less to hunt turkeys on. Blind hunttng is about the only way to do it then.
Works great for archery hunting too..
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Post by hornharvester on Jan 10, 2009 12:25:36 GMT -5
Plus for some health issues make it impossible to run and gun. h.h.
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Post by 76chevy on Jan 16, 2009 10:40:51 GMT -5
great looking decoy!!
I hunt a lot of public ground though and would not want to have to tote that thing through the woods and become a moving target =)
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Post by rivrbottmstalkr on Jan 20, 2009 2:29:56 GMT -5
Stuffers are deffinately the way to go. But for runnin and gunnin they can be in the way. I bought a dave smith hen deke last year. He makes some amazing dekes and it's about $120 TYD. They are moled and come witha a carrying bag and he's also working on a jake. Deffinately worth checkin out.
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Post by 76chevy on Jan 20, 2009 7:46:17 GMT -5
can you post some more info about how to find out more about these decoys? Stuffers are deffinately the way to go. But for runnin and gunnin they can be in the way. I bought a dave smith hen deke last year. He makes some amazing dekes and it's about $120 TYD. They are moled and come witha a carrying bag and he's also working on a jake. Deffinately worth checkin out. |
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Post by whitetaildave24 on Jan 20, 2009 10:18:06 GMT -5
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Post by Decatur on Jan 20, 2009 10:38:09 GMT -5
That does look pretty good.
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Post by rivrbottmstalkr on Jan 20, 2009 13:53:28 GMT -5
Hey Dave thanks for puttin up the link. At the ATA show I saw a few guys trying the molded turkey dekes, some put flocking on them some used the irredescent paint as well, but no body quite has it like Dave Smith has it. I can't wait till the jakes come out. Don't get me wrong, nothing replaces a stuffer but these are the very next closest thing.
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haha something else to pack out there, NOT ME!!!
