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By: Glynn Harris
Turkey hunting in Louisiana is going full tilt with another week to go until season ends May 3. From posts I’m seeing on the Internet and from calls I’ve gotten, it seems to have been a pretty good season so far with quite a few longbeard gobblers biting the dust since season opened for the general public April 3.
I’m guessing that many of the successful hunters attracted their gobblers by the use of decoys. From personal experience, I have found that in most cases, a decoy helped in bringing the old boy in within shotgun range.
Most hunters who use decoys rely on a fake hen to draw the attention of gobblers. Personally, I used foam hen decoys because of the ease in folding them up and putting them in your hunting vest. Sometimes, however, a hen decoy accompanied by a juvenile (jake) gobbler has been the ticket for attracting gobblers.