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Love Connection: The Turkey and the Decoy
Love Connection: The Turkey and the Decoy
Deep in the Bridger Mountains of Montana, photographer Bill Buckley found a lonely, love-struck wild Merriam's turkey. And for what did this bird pine? A beautiful Dave Smith hen decoy. What follows is a chronicle of romance, captured through the camera lens and told by the match-maker. One thing is for sure: if you're a turkey hunter and this tale doesn't make you think twice about your decoys of choice, perhaps nothing will.
Photo by Bill Buckley
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You know you've got a good decoy when gobblers get lovestruck, obsessive, and downright dirty with the plastic hen. Bill Buckley captured these close-range shots of a tom strutting his stuff in the heat of the moment.
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Photo Gallery Comments (23)
real lookin decoy
Great pictures!
WOW awesome pictures and coys
Makes you feel a little foolish when you think of all those gobblers the just never would take that extra step...
Sort of makes you wonder a little about the general stupidity of males who find themselves in the vicinity of hens...
I would love to hunt turkey with a decoy, but my land is so thick with vegetation the decoys scare the turkeys away.
yah these are pretty cool pics
Wow great pictures
Nice pics!
Great pics I have some similar ones from a couple years back that I'll try and find and get up here.
That series of photos is a turkey hunters dream! I wouldn't have been able to keep my finger off the trigger that long.
That must have been fun to watch!
where can I get one of those decoys?!??!!!
Nice picture. These are the pics. we all hope to capture.
Ya wow that decoy looks amazing
That is an awesome decoy NIce pic too.
I would of bagged that tom along time ago but then we wouldn't have great pics like these.
Nice tom. if you didnt shoot that thing you must have been crazy
Nice Tom thats a eastern wild turkey not a Merriams as wrote in your magazine
These photos are spectacular!
They have this same photo in this months mag.
It is in Montana here.
Nice turkey wish i could have seen it.
Excellent pictures!!!
Montana is the place to be........
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Makes you feel a little foolish when you think of all those gobblers the just never would take that extra step...
Sort of makes you wonder a little about the general stupidity of males who find themselves in the vicinity of hens...
Excellent pictures!!!
Montana is the place to be........
real lookin decoy
Great pictures!
WOW awesome pictures and coys
I would love to hunt turkey with a decoy, but my land is so thick with vegetation the decoys scare the turkeys away.
yah these are pretty cool pics
Wow great pictures
Nice pics!
Great pics I have some similar ones from a couple years back that I'll try and find and get up here.
That series of photos is a turkey hunters dream! I wouldn't have been able to keep my finger off the trigger that long.
That must have been fun to watch!
where can I get one of those decoys?!??!!!
Nice picture. These are the pics. we all hope to capture.
Ya wow that decoy looks amazing
That is an awesome decoy NIce pic too.
I would of bagged that tom along time ago but then we wouldn't have great pics like these.
Nice tom. if you didnt shoot that thing you must have been crazy
Nice Tom thats a eastern wild turkey not a Merriams as wrote in your magazine
These photos are spectacular!
They have this same photo in this months mag.
It is in Montana here.
Nice turkey wish i could have seen it.
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