Flight Control

By Joe Coogan

Updated on Apr 20, 2021 4:49 AM EDT

1 minute read

Bring it, fool! The tom attacks, putting a few dents in the decoy.

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httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300101_Tom_with_Decoy_0.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 — 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 — Boom! The big tom takes a load of Federal Premium Heavyweight No. 6 shot to the head and neck, fired from a Benelli M2, 20-gauge at 35 yards. (Notice the Flight Control wad just over the back of the gobbler.)

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300105_Tom_with_Decoy_4.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 — Hunters Steve McKelvain and Cally Morris with a nice Rio.

httpswww.outdoorlife.comsitesoutdoorlife.comfilesimport2014importImage2010photo300107_group_photo.jpg — Success. The hunters and their birds. From left: Cally Morris, Peter Mathiesen, Steve Gash, Joe Coogan, Steve McKelvain, Bob Robb, Milton Greeson.