Give me a DSD jake and hen and I can kill a turkey in any state on any land. Give me a fan along with those decoys and I’ll get a limit in a day, don’t care where or what land it is. That’s the reason I quit using decoys about 6-7 years ago…way too easy. No challenge with a decoy. Find turkeys, throw out decoys, turkeys come in, shoot turkeys. Heck, you don’t even need camo, their focus is solely on the decoys and nothing else.

Now go hunt without decoys and let me know how you do. Dedicate one season to absolutely no decoys and tell me decoys aren’t an almost guarantee success. If you’re using decoys and scaring turkeys then you’re using the wrong decoy or haven’t learned how to use them.

You can basically set up anywhere with decoys, no woodsmanship required. Open pines with broomsedge next to a burn, no problem. With decoys the gobbler sees decoys and comes in. Without decoys that gobbler will hear you, but is not coming in when he can’t see anything. No thought process needed when using decoys except where to set and how to set.