To be honest, I don’t know how many turkeys I’d killed before I set my first turkey decoys; probably a dozen or more. The way I was taught, the hunter made the yelps and the clucks and the purrs, and ...

Today, turkey decoys are almost as important as our turkey calls, shotguns, shotshells, and vests. And, like each of these pieces of essential hunting gear, decoys are practically without number and ...

It’s pretty easy to get obsessed with building a spread of the best goose decoys. Goose hunting is hard work and we’re all looking for any advantage we can get over the birds and competing hunters. So ...

HICKORY CORNERS --Join Southwest Michigan's own award-winning carver Willy McDonald for a decoy-carving demonstration at 1 p.m. Sept. 13 at the Kellogg Bird Sanctuary in Hickory Corners.Learn about ...

For Al Buckley buried within a block of wood is a bird waiting to emerge. Like a bird hatching from an egg, under his careful and skilled hands, Buckley can carve a realistic representation of a ...

In these days of politics, putting "spin" on a story to obfuscate its truth is at its zenith. But in the hunting world, the word "spin" has taken on an entirely new meaning. For hunters, the ...

Snow goose hunters that invest in thousands of decoys are some of the most passionate hunters in North America. The substantial cost of decoys is just the start. You need a trailer to haul all those ...