It has been my experience that turkeys are very curious, even more so than deer. I set up against a tree one time and put some brush across my legs. I immediately callied in a flock of hens and poults (it was the fall season). The 3 hens put the poults under some brush about 15 years from me and proceeded to make a huge circle to my left. The poults came out of the brush to eat and caught my full attention. A few minutes later the rustling of leaves directly behind me scared me to death. Those hens circled me and came up along side of me to check me out. I slowly turned my head and was nose to beak with a Rio hen. She purted a few times, walked right beside my leg and back to the youngsters.

An old timer told me to move very slowly and the turkeys will actually come up to you to check you out.

On other occasions, I' ve seen hens spook at hen decoys from 50 yards.