Decoy ?

[wisconsinteacher]

I am looking to upgrade my decoys in the next year or two.  I have some cheap Wally-World hens and a Jake moble.  I am looking at DSD and wonder if I should go with a hen first or the jake.  Would you go feeder or up right hen?  I am going to make one of the cheaper decoys to look like the breeding hen.  I figure that if a tom sees that then he is close enough to shoot.

[Addicted to Gobblin]

The DSD decoys are good. Zinks avian x hens are nice too.  I got the up right hen by zinks last year and the gobblers love her!!! You may even have trouble keeping your jake mobile off of her. On a serious note you can't go wrong with either one of those. I chose the up right hen just for visibility purposes if the grass was higher in the field.

[sugarray]

DSD.  Worth every penny!!  I have the jake, upright hen, and now the breeding hen.  Had great success with the jake and a hen from Dick's as a breeder.  The realism is great.  Tough to carry, but MIL made me a nice digital camo bag that will hold all 3 with flannel covering for the jake, foam cushion around his head, upright hen is a flannel bag.  I'll have another flannel bag made for my breeder.  Absolutely love them.  Best day was opening day with 2 coming in and gobbling like thunder with another across the river gobbling every time the other 2 would.  Not a decoy one out!  Son smoked the dominant one!!!!

[kansas hooks]

I agree with the DSD's.  They are well worth the money.  I have the up right hen, the jake, and the strutting tom.  You can't go wrong with any of them.  My first purchase was the combo of the hen and jake.

[agturkey]

Don't overlook Best Turkey Decoy

[alloutdoors]

I have the whole flock, including the stutter. The jake is hands down the single most effective one of the bunch. When I have had both the stutter and jake out together, birds always walk around the stutter and go straight to the jake. I mostly just use the jake and hens now, and save the strutted for special occasions. Start with the jake and use the hens you have until you can afford to add a DSD hen. Then I would suggest getting the upright hen first, she's much more noticeable than the feeder, especially when the grass starts getting tall mid-season. The hen decoys are great for pulling in live hens, but I've never had a gobbler come in who didn't go to the jake first.

I have an extra jake that I picked up in a package deal a while back that I hadn't gotten around to putting up for sale yet. PM me if you're interested in it.