---
title: "Flight Control"
description: "Do decoys work? This incredible sequence of photos show just how deadly effective strutting gobbler decoys can be."
date: "2010-05-05"
modified: "2010-05-05"
authors:
  - name: "Joe Coogan"
    link: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/authors/joe-coogan/"
url: "https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/hunting/turkey-waterfowl/turkey-techniques/2010/05/benelli-turkey-hunt/"
categories:
  - "Ammo"
  - "Guns"
  - "Hunting"
  - "Shotgun Ammo"
  - "Turkey Hunting"
---

# Flight Control

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300102_Tom_with_Decoy_1_0.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/5V5NRXEPTX4H4H7MKOAHRJF2IA.jpg>)
*Bring it, fool! The tom attacks, putting a few dents in the decoy.*

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300101_Tom_with_Decoy_0.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/EV56FODVZ3IPKKKN5XYTCXCCCQ.jpg>)
*This Hazel Creek decoy attracts a big boss gobbler. He's itching for a fight.*

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300103_Tom_with_Decoy_2.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/MITAYL6YF72L5R3BDTAGJVPFII.jpg>)
*What's that I hear? The tom is stretching out his neck to locate the sound of that putt from a Hunter's Specialties Ring Zone slate call.*

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300104_Tom_with_Decoy_3.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/VVJVZR6IJQQBEWL2ZTHTR5ZK4U.jpg>)
*Boom! The big tom takes a load of [Federal Premium Heavyweight No. 6](<https://www.federalpremium.com/products/details/shotshell.aspx?id=837>) shot to the head and neck, fired from a [Benelli M2, 20-gauge](<https://www.benelliusa.com/shotguns/benelli_m2.php>) at 35 yards. (Notice the Flight Control wad just over the back of the gobbler.)*

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300105_Tom_with_Decoy_4.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/UIYRAV7WLB4BM3OXED742LDMJQ.jpg>)
*Down. Benelli M2, Federal Premium Heavyweight, Hazel Creek Decoys and Hunter's Specialties Ring Zone Slate Call . . . a deadly combination.*

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300106_Mac__Cally-2010.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/A6ZZBFCJSZBB7VY7YO37PW73BU.jpg>)
*Hunters Steve McKelvain and Cally Morris with a nice Rio.*

![httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300107_group_photo.jpg](<https://www.outdoorlife.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/23/DC4JYUG4DUOGI2H7HQ447XUKTY.jpg>)
*Success. The hunters and their birds. From left: Cally Morris, Peter Mathiesen, Steve Gash, Joe Coogan, Steve McKelvain, Bob Robb, Milton Greeson.*