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<blockquote data-quote="TheLBLman" data-source="post: 5093917" data-attributes="member: 1409"><p>My opinion is turkey decoys have been highly successfully "marketed", and are not nearly as effective as they've been made to appear. On all the YouTube and other marketing videos, we mainly just see the times they work. Not shown, and often not even realized, are the time the decoys cost the hunter more opportunities than they gain him.</p><p></p><p>IMO, turkey decoys are actually more a gimmick than a crutch.</p><p></p><p>Show me a highly successful turkey hunter who does not make $ some how, some way by producing hunting videos and/or being a hunting industry insider or some "celebrity" hunter, and will usually see a turkey hunter who never or only seldom uses decoys.</p><p></p><p>I cannot emphasize enough how many birds get spooked by hunters for no other reason than the hunters are carrying and using decoys, which typically cause you to be both more visible and more audible (in a bad way) to distant turkeys seeing you, while you're not seeing them.</p><p></p><p>In some applications, turkey decoys are definitely more beneficial than harmful, particularly regarding the less experienced hunter. Those applications are mainly limited to large fields, and sometimes hunters who must remain in a stationary location because their property is relatively small for turkey hunting.</p><p></p><p>That said, the same less experienced hunters may gain better hunting skills quicker via not using decoys, while the generality that decoys are at least as much an overall liability as an asset, still holds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheLBLman, post: 5093917, member: 1409"] My opinion is turkey decoys have been highly successfully "marketed", and are not nearly as effective as they've been made to appear. On all the YouTube and other marketing videos, we mainly just see the times they work. Not shown, and often not even realized, are the time the decoys cost the hunter more opportunities than they gain him. IMO, turkey decoys are actually more a gimmick than a crutch. Show me a highly successful turkey hunter who does not make $ some how, some way by producing hunting videos and/or being a hunting industry insider or some "celebrity" hunter, and will usually see a turkey hunter who never or only seldom uses decoys. I cannot emphasize enough how many birds get spooked by hunters for no other reason than the hunters are carrying and using decoys, which typically cause you to be both more visible and more audible (in a bad way) to distant turkeys seeing you, while you're not seeing them. In some applications, turkey decoys are definitely more beneficial than harmful, particularly regarding the less experienced hunter. Those applications are mainly limited to large fields, and sometimes hunters who must remain in a stationary location because their property is relatively small for turkey hunting. That said, the same less experienced hunters may gain better hunting skills quicker via not using decoys, while the generality that decoys are at least as much an overall liability as an asset, still holds. [/QUOTE]
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