Did somebody feed me a line....

[WNCTracker]

Guy I work with just told me that he usually puts a crow decoy about 30 yards from his hen decoys because it puts gobblers at ease when they see a wary crow on the ground.  I thought crows and turkeys weren't friends, and even if they were, would such a thing really have any kind of impact on anything.  Seems far fetched but I've been wrong many times before.  Anybody ever heard of this....?

[101st501]

I've never heard of that, but I would do almost anything to give myself an edge.

[Gooserbat]

It's plausible but I don't think turkeys use that much reasoning.

[TRG3]

My experience with crows is that they like to caw in an irritating way toward my turkey decoys, so I'm reluctant to feel that a crow decoy would set real birds as ease. If I were to carry another decoy, it would be a hen in the feeding position which should indicate a relaxed state to the real gobbler.

[Dr Juice]

I never heard of that so enjoy. Let us how you make out.

[hobbes]

I've seen so called "confidence" decoys for waterfowlers,  but haven't heard of it for turkeys.  I can't imagine a crow would instill more confidence than a lifelike turkey decoy.  I don't doubt that your buddy uses one, but there is all kind of nonsense being promoted and used out there.

[Greg Massey]

I sure hope crows and turkeys never get alone. The old crow helps in getting that gobbler to gobble so i know were he is sometimes. For me you call tell for sure a crow and turkeys are not friends just look at how many times a crow has gotten turkeys killed ... ha ha ha ha..

[VaBoy]

Not trying to offend anyone , but leave your decoys in the truck and get down to hunting turkeys. I have been at this game a long time and we use to kill a lot of turkeys before we had decoys or before they were legal. I'm as guilty as anyone , I have them and I use them at times , but just this past weekend I found myself being drug down by them . Hesitant to move because I would have to pull up the dekes and re-set up instead of jumping up and making the move I needed to . Again , not trying to offend anyone , I just think we have become way to dependent on dekes to pull birds in for us instead of using good woodsmanship . Just my .02

[Greg Massey]

O PLEASE...NOT THE DECOY THING AGAIN...LOL.........

[Mike Honcho]

Kind of the reverse but I have a friend who puts a turkey decoy in proximity to his tree stand when deer hunting with a bow ...his reasoning is it puts deer at ease thinking deer know turkeys are so wary.

I personally don't know if it works for him.

Sorry this was off topic on turkeys!

[perrytrails]

Kind of the reverse but I have a friend who puts a turkey decoy in proximity to his tree stand when deer hunting with a bow ...his reasoning is it puts deer at ease thinking deer know turkeys are so wary.

I personally don't know if it works for him.

Sorry this was off topic on turkeys!

I've heard that too...

[Gobble!]

heard it for deer not turkeys.

[Happy]

Not a big decoy user but here are my thoughts... If a turkey is smart enough to look around and notice that you don't have a crow decoy nearby and uses that as a deal-breaker on whether or not he approaches then I would suspect that he would also be observant enough to notice that they don't move and only have one leg. That sir is a turkey I don't want any parts of.

[Greg Massey]

LMBO....Happy....me either...

[WNCTracker]

I never heard of that so enjoy. Let us how you make out.

Oh no, I'm not considering it!  I just wanted to know if he was full of it. I'm, for one, looking into a parrot for my shoulder