Thishomemade decoy got me two gobblers this season. I call him "Bucket Bird". BB is made from a 5-gallon flat black bucket. I attached a large binder clip to the outside bottom in to which went the dried tail in a fanning position. Oneither side toward the open end went two more large binder clips in to which went the dried wings in the strutting position. Across the diameter of the open end went a 2X4 that was crudely shaped into a head and appropriately painted. It was notched to slip over the bucket's rim and a nail used to hold it in place. BB was then balanced on a stake to get him 10-12" off the ground. A "blanket" of dried skin withfeathers from the back of a previous kill rested between the head and tail on BB (optional). (I use borax to dry everything.) I placed a foam-type hen decoy on a stake about 6-8' in front of BB and positioned him so that the incoming gobbler(s) would see him all fanned outfrom behind. Believe-it-or-not, my first tom came running across a 10 acre field as fast as his legs could carry him.With thesecond gobbler, a jake camerunning infirst and literally stomped the hen in the ground. He was quickly followed by two toms that tried to bully BB. The one I took was 21# with a10.5" beard. This was from 25 yards with my 11 gauge smoothbore.The convenient thing about BB is that all parts fit into the bucket for easy transportation to your set up spot. By-the-way, both of my set up spots were probably 250-300 yards from the roosting gobblers in a grassy field so that BB could be seen from a distance. In calling, I answered their early morning gobbles with a shaker gobble tube. I slowly added hen yelps with different calls to make it sound like this gobbler had 2-3 ladies with him. I'd break into my own yelping with single and double gobbles as if there was a party going on and the real gobblers were missing it. Once they flew down, I'd only gobble when they did so that I knew where they were. After deciding to come on in, they closed the distance very quickly from where I last heard them gobble until they were right on top of me. I've only had my Parker crossbow a month or so, butI'm going to use it next year as well as during the upcoming deer season. What a blast!! Tom