The Best Turkey Decoys: Reviews & Recommendations

• Best Overall: Montana Decoy Wiley Tom 3D & Miss Purrfect XD.
• Best Hen Decoy: Avian-X HDR Hen.
• Most Realistic: Dave Smith Decoys, Upright Hen.
• Best Combo: Avian-X HDR Strutter and Feeding Hen.
• Best Budget: Redhead Foam Turkey Decoy 3-Pack.

A decoy is a visual that may be misidentified by a hunter as a live hen or gobbler. I don't want to be in the line of fire of someone trying to shoot my decoy. But I can put my decoy out into the field or swamp because when I call to a gobbler, and he's coming to me, he expects to see a hen.

My go-to setup for bowhunting turkeys is what I call the love triangle. The love triangle consists of two hen decoys set very close - say three to five yards - at 45-degree angles. Directly between the two hens, but farther out at 10 to 15 yards, I place a male decoy over a bedded hen.

The single best decoy anyone can own is a submissive, half- or quarter-strut jake. If you're into shooting any legal turkey, this type of jake will draw in anything with a beard. These dekes are effective all spring, so long as you pair them with the right birds.

Setting one or two decoys up in an area where a gobbler can easily spot them when responding is ideal for hunting wooded areas. When a tom sees the decoy, he often will use the road or pathway to strut and show off while responding. Many hunters will often use a hen and a jake decoy.

So the second decoy setup that I use here in northern Illinois is just a single hen. Now I'll take this out usually halfway. Through the second season into the third season.

Duck decoys were historically carved from wood, often Atlantic white cedar wood on the east coast of the US from Maine to South Carolina, or cork. Modern ones may also be made of canvas and plastic. They are usually painted elaborately and very accurately to resemble various kinds of waterfowl.

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Decoys can be a turkey hunter's greatest ally or foe. They allow a turkey to put a face to the voice they've heard call at them which can draw the bird in, but can also keep it away if the setup is not executed right.

The decoy effect describes how, when we are choosing between two alternatives, the addition of a third, less attractive option (the decoy) can influence our perception of the original two choices.

A decoy refers to a third option that a brand offers in order to change consumers' preferences regarding two basic options available.

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The Decoy Effect defined Decoy is an option which no one is interested in because it's objectively inferior to other options. It isn't designed to be sold. Decoy has a different objective – to make other options seem more attractive. The “decoy” is that third option.