I agree with others about the use of decoys, especially in a wooded setup....let the bird come look for you. Also learned that the hard way early on...they'd come, see the dekes, go into full strut and hang up and wait.....TR also made a good point about putting the dekes to one side allowing the tom to possibly be in range when the bird hangs up on dekes..or like mentioned, leave them in the car....now in field setups, I like dekes on occassion.

TR also mentioned another good point, get and learn the diaphram unless you've been there, done that and can't....there are also alternatives to the diaphram challenged turkey hunters and that would be a push/pull peg button box call like the one on www.rivervalleygamecalls.com that attaches to the barrel of your gun and allows you to have the gun pointed at the bird and still make all your desired turkey calls without the proficiency of using a mouth call.