Some days they’re good some not. I carry them but hardly use them but they do make it nice when you’re leaning against a tree!!

Well, it seems as though the general consensus is not to use decoys. That works for me, thanks for all the replies. I am going to try hard to break the curse this year lol.

Just deer hunt them. Scout, and know where they are going to be. Get in there, yelp a couple times every 30 mins or so, and wait on them to swing through. Not as fancy as a Primos tv show, but it'll put a bird in the oven.

I hunt places where I know where the turkeys come through most every day and use a gobbler with a real tail and a hen or two and move them around if they get spooked from me shooting. Usually if the hens see the gobbler and the walk right buy and the gobbler follows or some time a single or double gobbler will just come at a run to the decoy and get right in his nose to fight or they will do a slow strut that may take twenty minutes to get there. I used to go walk them up and killed several that way but don't get around all that well these days so just hunt from a blind and you will do a lot off sitting sometimes between shots. I am a terrible caller. Here's a couple from this week.

What part of district 3 are you in? I’m in Ashland county and we have a decent amount of turkey here. I’ve had times where toms didn’t give decoys a second thought, and other times where they came running in.

Wayne Co Ave. I was public land only till yesterday. The farmer that I trap and hunt groundhogs and coon gave me permission to turkey hunt on his place. I only cut a couple tracks in the winter, I don't think it holds a lot of birds but will start scouting next week.

I starting being successful on gobblers on a regular basis when I dedicated all the time I could to being in the woods. Take a nap between 8 and 9 if you have to, but stay in the woods. Carry a small binocular with you. You will be surprised at what you see going on out there that you miss with the naked eye. They have a way of staying behind a tree and peeking around at your calling location. I have seen a tiny red spot of wattle along the side of a tree when I thought the woods was vacant of turkeys. And, yes I did kill that silent bugger. I have observed gobblers reactions to other hunters calls at a distance and then moved in for the kill when that hunter gave up. Decoys can be fun and effective,but they are not near the top of my list of what I need to be successful.

If I'm hunting fields, field edges, large openings in timber I use a decoy with a lot of success...bow...
Hunting timber dense or low visibility no decoy..I've had a lot of Toms come in hot once they see the decoy
they start putting like crazy and off they go....most cases that's been my experience...
My best hunts 9-1pm...

I have had good luck also between 9 and 10 but both of those in the pictures are between 5 and 6 in the afternoon and I probably kill half in the afternoon. 12-1 here seems to be the dead time.