I saw a turkey hunting show a couple years ago where they did this. I'm sure it could work under the right circumstances, but it has to be THE MOST DANGEROUS WAY TO HUNT! Its a good way to get a face full of #4's. Yeah, yeah, but if I'm on private land and nobody else is hunting there... Well, 2 years ago I was on private land that nobody else was supposed to be hunting on so I did what I consider dangerous if I was on public land. I broke out a gobbler shaker trying to get a tom to respond. Well, I didn't get a Tom to respond, but what I did get was someone walking the road cutting away on a box call trying to make me gobble again! You could bet that if I did or if a Tom did answer, whoever that was on the road would more likely than not have tried to work that bird, possibly even stalk it (which is illegal here, but the law doesn't mean squat to some people.) I have a turkey fan actually sitting on top of my computer monitor with a beard and legs just waiting for me to mount it, I could use it but would never ever consider holding it in front of my face while hunting. What I Might try sometime is this- mount the fan on a stake and put it in the ground. I never tried this, but I hear that a Tom will approach a fan decoy and continue circling it trying to go face to face with the intruder. Since the fan is just a fan on both sides, the turkey just keeps going around it in circles looking for the head. Anyone have any experience doing something like this?