In fact, it was proven to me once again last week as I harvested a nice tom during Iowa"s first season ... and he was staring intently at my decoys, tail down and neck outstretched.

While researching the many strutting tom decoy models that are marched ... it comes with a string that you can pull to make the decoy’s tail fan swing up and down. This option is designed ...

They looked real and convincing to me. The hen decoys were feeding while the tom decoy was strutting with his tail completely fanned out. It was only 4:30 p.m. on our first afternoon of this season’s ...

In fact, if you love to hunt with decoys, think about simply putting out a jake decoy...or perhaps a tom decoy. But it will still have to be set up in the path of a passing flock. Our success ...

This brings up an important point if using multiple decoys. Far more often, a tom will approach a tom decoy, or try to get between it and a hen decoy. Set your decoys so the male, or the space ...

MID-MICHIGAN Tom and his son Brian like to goose hunt with decoys, and they require some ... and basically after you apply it to the head or tail, it almost looks like it is real life.

He was hunting a particularly wary tom that would fly down from his roost in the morning, gobble back at Heinn’s hen calls, but would turn tail and run every time he saw Heinn’s plastic decoy.