Before I broke my leg and ended my turkey season, I used the K & H Pretty Boy and Pretty girl decoys @ 22 yards. I had a three-year old tom stand in the decoy setup, and five jakes also surround the decoys. This was early season, when the turkeys were still establishing dominance, though.

I've taken many turkeys with no decoys, especially mid-season.

Late season I've never found anything that consistently works, decoys, no decoys, hen noises, gobbler noises. My best late season approachhas beenpinpoint roosting, getting in close in the black (like 25-30yards), a single(motion) decoy andno calling/calling once only, soft and subtle. Of course, that only works for the first bit of a day.But I think the decoy gives the tom direction for his flydown.

If I could have gone late this spring, I was planning to try a flock of passive and aggressive jakes and gobblers as decoys (if I didn't get under a roosted tom and nail him right after he flew down to my decoy) to see what happened when Idid the cutt and run routine, trying to get a tom to come in on a bachelor flock. But I can't, so who knows.