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The afternoon before Opening Turkey Season '07, my husband and I went into a local gun shop to pick up a few last minute items before going hunting the following morning. They had the Pretty Boy & Pretty Girl decoys set out. We had looked at these before and considered purchasing them, but had gone back to using a borrowed, beat-up decoy with limited success. We looked at the decoys on display and discussed going ahead and purchasing them. The store owner explained it was the last set he had in stock and would even discount the price some to get them sold. We went ahead and purchased them, wondering how successful they would really be. We went home and watched the enclosed video, wishing a hunt would really go the way it was depicted in the video. The next morning we set up our blind and set out the Pretty Boy and the Pretty Girl before sunup. It was extremely windy and we were worried we wouldn't see a turkey in that kind of wind.Click for more...
Attached is a picture of the last Tom I killed this spring here in Missouri. I have been hunting Turkeys here in MO since 1984. I am 36 years old. I have harvested 2 birds every spring and 1 or 2 birds every fall since the mid 80’s but I have never enjoyed Turkey hunting in the spring like I have since I started hunting over the Pretty Boy Turkey Decoy.
I purchased my first Pretty Boy before the 2006 season. I guide Turkey hunts on a small scale, 4 to 7 hunters per/spring. I love to kill them but I enjoy calling them in and watching people who have never killed a bird or who have very limited success kill them. I have story after incredible story using the Pretty Boy turkey decoy.
Like I said, I have always enjoyed Turkey hunting but never as much as I do hunting over my Pretty Boy. I actually have 2 Pretty Boy set-ups. I named them both Roscoe.
Roscoe is single handedly to blame for the death of over 15 or 20 mature Toms.Click for more...
This was my first hunting experience. I spent the first three days hunting with no success, with one of those days being an all day downpour. The fourth day was clear and cool and the Tom's were gobblin' like crazy. I had the Pretty Boy Turkey Decoy set up on the edge of a field. I had a Tom come out 300 yards away on the opposite edge of the field. He worked his way all the way to the decoy set up, where I dropped him with one shot. I weighed him at the local sporting shop, and he weighed 26 pounds and had 10" beard!! I am still shaking with excitement, and needless to say, I am... hooked! Can't wait for the Fall hunt!! The Pretty Boy decoy worked like magic!
Sue S.Oshkosh, WI
Spring Turkey Season in Minnesota and the Pretty Boy does the trick on 3 tom’s. Minnesota Turkey Season is broken up into 8 season each 5 days long. Mike and his father Erivn would be hunting the 2nd season starting on April 23rd. With their blind set up and Pretty Boy about 40 yards from it they sat and waited in the morning of the first day about 200 yards from were the birds were roosting. About 6:00 a.m. 5 hens and 1 jake came out of the trees and into the field where the Pretty Boy Turkey Decoy was but they stayed away from him. Mike and Ervin did no calling just with the hope that a tom would see the Pretty Boy. No longer than 10 minutes later Ervin and Mike heard a noise behind them and just as they turned 2 toms where in a full sprint to Pretty Boy running just besides the blind by no more than 2 feet. Mike wanted his father to get his first ever turkey so he told him to shot once he was ready. But Erivn told Mike that why don’Click for more...
Took my work associate on his very first turkey hunt on Monday, 4/30/07... He’s on the right. Used the Pretty Boy and Girl Turkey Decoy. At 6:05 a.m. the Boss Gobble shot out of his tree, landed and immediately went into a full strut. He walked on a direct line to the decoys and was dispatched by my friend after he cleared a small cedar bush. Dropped at 17 yards; he was 23 pounds with an 11 inch beard. He neither looked right or left, but focused right on Pretty Boy. I have had two other encounters where the toms have run full tilt at the decoy set up. It really works great! Please see enclosed morning shot on Monday 4/30 after all the dust had settled. We were done by 7:20 AM. I shot mine out of a group of 7 mature gobblers that were approaching the decoys from a creek bottom. Great product; great morning!
Jim K.Saint George, KS
Absolutely the BEST decoy system I have ever used. On the afternoon of April 25th 2007 my twin brother, Marty, and I went out for a hunting trip. I purchased the Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl shortly before turkey season came in this year, 2007. We made a blind out of vegetation that over looked a field. We put the Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl out in the filed at 40 yards. At 5:10 p.m. three large gobblers came out a logging road on the other side of the field which our range finders showed them to be 325 yards. We watched them feed for about 15 minutes in a "bowl" like section of the field (they could not see the decoys as long as they remained in the "bowl"). They made their way out into the field and one of the gobblers looked toward the decoys and all three of them made a dead run to the Pretty Boy. The first Tom got within 1 yard and fanned out... the next thing was on the count of "3" two of the Toms were dead.Click for more...
This is me and my grandson with my Georgia opening day bird!I killed him at 10:00 a.m. on March 23rd. He was with hens and NEVER gobbled. He weighed 23 lbs. and 14 oz. according to the taxerdermist. He had 11 inch beard and 1 1/4" hooks. I pulled in an entire flock with my Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl turkey decoy. I would not have had a chance without it!!! I hope to have my grandson out with me in a couple of years.
Eric H.Lafayette, GA
Your Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl decoys are incredible! Opening weekend I took the 2nd heaviest turkey recorded by the NWTF in South Dakota (26 lbs). My friend borrowed them last weekend and shot a 21 lbs. bird that came into them.Excellent work!
Tony H.Sioux Falls, SD
This turkey was taken on the 1st day of the 2007 Turkey season in Enfield, NC at 2:30 in the afternoon. I bought my Pretty Boy-Pretty Girl late in 2006 and didn't get a chance to use it until this year. I watched your video that came with the outfit and had some doubt about Pretty Boy's real effectiveness. Well, I can tell you now, the doubt is no longer even a factor.
The story goes like this, in the morning hunt I had 11 jakes come from all over the edge of the woods. Not one of them ever challenged Pretty Boy, it was a great hunt even without shooting. Lunch came and went and at 1:30 I went back to the field, set up Pretty Boy and Girl about 40 yds from the blind, it didn't look to promising but you know turkey hunters, I was sticking it out for the rest of the day. Sitting in the blind, mind wandering, all of a sudden I caught movement from the right approximately 80 or 100 yards at the edge of the woods, 1st one gobbler than 2, 3 and finally #4.Click for more...
Killed April 22, 2007 in Adams Run South Carolina which is just south of Charleston. 18 lbs, 9 1/2 beard and 3/4 inch spurs.Love that Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl!THEY CANT BE BEAT!Steven E.
I just returned from turkey hunting in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. Early opening day on Monday, I was rudely awakened from my traditional morning nap in the turkey blind, by the blast of a 12 gauge. Two "turkey hunters" crept within 30 yards of my Pretty Boy and Pretty girl set up and shot my Pretty Boy. I'll refrain from the details of my "conversation" with them. In their defense, they had never seen a decoy like this. They asked me what brand it was and where I'd gotten it. After they left, I reset my decoys and around 11 AM shot a Jake who came in to investigate my spread. Not bad for public land and 2 hours after gunfire in the same area.
I just returned from Bass Pro Shop in Gurnee, Illinois today and the hunting department lead suggested I contact you with this wild story. I brought the decoy into the store so they could see the pellets still imbedded in the body, head, neck and beard and the holes from the rest of the pellets.Click for more...
This year's 2007 Spring season was my 4th year turkey hunting. Previous to this year, I had yet to bag a turkey and thought my concentration for bagging a tom had to be focused on various calling technics. I have attached the pictures of the tom I took this morning, my gobbler spotted my Pretty Boy from 200 yards away and once he spotted him, he started his strut and within 5 min the tom was all over the top of of my Pretty Boy and without a single call! In fact, there were two hens in the same open field that he completely ignored to go after my Pretty Boy.Thank you Pretty Boy!
When I checked him in to the check station the official measurements were:Weight: 23.3 ozSpur length: 1.625 inchesBeard length: 10.5 inches
Boyd C.
Shooter Josh (Left) and caller Jonah (Right) harvested this old tom on the opening day of Virginia’s Spring Gobbler season. The bird weighed in at 23 lbs with an 11 ½ in. beard and 1 ½ in. spurs. This boss gobbler met his demise by running straight to Pretty Boy from over 200 yds away. He was looking for a fight, but instead all this old bird got was a head full of Winchester Supreme #5s.
Me and my Dad worked this bird in from 300 yards and our Pretty Boy turkey decoy sealed the deal. It weighed 18 3/4 lbs. 10 1/8 inch beard and 1 1/8 inch spurs. I would have never killed this bird if it wasent for the Pretty Boy.
Cameron M.
I had two turkeys put to bed on the eve of the South Carolina 2007 Turkey opener. The fortunate thing was is they were roosted right off one of my clover plots. I felt really good that the birds would come to the food plot and strut after they left the roost. I set my Pretty Boy/Pretty Girl 10 yards from my blind. I heard the first bird gobble about 7:10. I gave a few soft tree calls with my Yellow Hammer and had three birds answered back.
Around 7:35 I heard a bird fly down and I gave a fly cackle using a Diaphram Turkey Call. About ten minutes later I saw the first white head, then three more following. The lead bird was the strutter and when he saw Pretty boy - it was on!
He came straight to the decoy and started strutting. He strutted around Pretty Boy two or three times while bumping up against him. I couldn't take anymore so I sent a 100 grain Muzzy through both wings at 11 yards.Click for more...
It was the opening weekend for the 2007 Turkey Season in Alabama. I knew of a couple long beards I had seen in about a 50 acre hayfield the week before so I had my mind set to be there and set up with my Pretty Boy well before daylight. I was completely set up by 5:30 AM just in the edge of the frosted over hayfield. Around 6:15 AM the day began to come alive. Shortly after daylight, I had a hen pitch down about 15 yards in front of me and within feet of Pretty Boy. Thank goodness I had my mouth call in and my gun rested in the right direction because I could not move at all. After 20 minutes of the live hen and myself calling, I saw this gobbler come out from 300 yards across the hayfield. As the sun was shining in a few spots of the field, the gobbler would go to the sunny spots and strut, then run 100 yards and strut again.Click for more...
Just wanted to give ya'll a quick update on my Alabama turkey season. Opening Day was March 15 and I found myself under a small pine tree at the edge of a greenfield just outside Greenville, Alabama. My incredibly understanding wife had recently purchased Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl for me at the urging of our local BPS rep. After watching the enclosed DVD, I quickly removed a fan I had mounted in my garage and adding it to my arsenal.
As the first light hit the field I let out a few quiet yelps on my box call without any response, so I just sat tight and waited for a litle more light. After I finally heard a distant gobbler awaken, I let out a few more yelps with a little more enthusiasm. Much to my delight I was met with a quick response at the far end of the plot that I was set up on.Click for more...
David's not a morning person, so he and his father arrived at the farm about 7 a.m. and spoted 30 or 40 birds in one of the pastures. The pair sneaked within 350 yards of the birds and set up a Carry-Lite Pretty Boy decoy. The gobblers in the big flock answered their calls but would not leave the hens. About 8:30 a.m. Johnny slipped around the side of the hill and called loudly on his Knight & Hale Old Yeller call, and two gobblers broke from the crowd and headed his way. He quickly ducked back to David, called a couple more times and saw the gobblers running toward them. "When they saw Pretty Boy they went into strut and continued approaching," Johnny said. "They went behind a small tree and David repositioned his gun and took the biggest. His buddy gobbled and flogged the downed bird for about 5 minutes, which David thought was the best part of the hunt."
This past year while turkey hunting in Hurlock, MD I saw one of the most awesome acts of nature while using your product. My buddy and I set the Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl decoys up about 40 yds from our ground blind and we placed other decoys out as well.
We saw several turkeys and suddenly they began to run. As we looked up a Redtail Hawk came in and picked the pretty girl up into the air and began to fly away with it. After about 10 seconds it dropped it and flew on its way. Just goes to show how realistic the decoy really is.
Zak P.Georgetown, DE
Rickey and his son Chris, of Waycross, Ga., are firm believers in the Carry-Lite Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl turkey system. Their conversion began on opening morning of the 2006 season.
“I’d purchased a Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl from Carry-Lite a few weeks prior to the season,” Rickey said, “and on opening morning of the season my son and I headed out to get another chance at a wary ole tom we’d hunted several times the previous year.”
The pair had done their homework and roosted the bird the evening prior to the opener. The old, smart bird was roosted in an old oak tree surrounded by small pines.
Opening morning was unusually cold for southeast Georgia, and the pair hung back unsure of how the old tom was going to react.
“We sat back and waited for the first gobbles of the morning,” Rickey said. “Click for more...
Chris is one of those kids who are just ‘eat up’ with hunting. I mean 24/7.
We were in Chester Country in South Carolina and set up in a bottom where I’d seen birds a couple days earlier. Before light I’d put out the decoys and we were sitting in a blind. There was not much going on and it was cold – like 29 degrees. I’d just said ‘we need to hear a gobble’ and we heard one gobble behind us. Two gobblers came through a strip of trees and here they came. They walked by the blind at 5-yards, and Chris had his gun sticking through a shooting hole in the blind. They were walking toward the decoys purring and doing figure 8s around them. We couldn’t get them to stop so Chris could shoot. Finally one stopped and Chris shot it. The other gobbler didn’t run off. He just jumped on the downed bird, and before I could stop him Chris had jacked another shell in the barrel and shot the other one! It was just one of those hunts. I ruined him for life on turkey hunting!
I've attached pictures of my turkey that beats the current Georgia state record with a bow by 13 points. Spurs 1 1/8 and 1 3/16, 3-beards 10 3/4 - 7 1/2 - 6 7/16 inch and 18.4 lbs. I’ve had noting but success with Pretty Boy and Girl. There is blood on this turkey decoy from both my Osceola and this Eastern turkey. Through success with the decoys I've convinced about seven people to buy the Pretty Boy turkey decoy. Me and my friends joke that you have to defend him. Both turkeys were 8 yards. Georgia Outdoor News, the largest outdoor publication in Georgia is doing a story about the turkey, I assure you I am going to plug Pretty Boy. Thanks again for a awesome decoy.
Chris B.Hawkinsville, GA
I really feel the Pretty Boy and Pretty Girl made a difference here last weekend as the Toms were really glued to the hens and weren't responding well to calls at all in the morning. The afternoon was a different story. Once they spotted Pretty Boy they couldn't resist.
A few quick stories: Keep in mind on the first one that we are hunting on private property, otherwise I wouldn't have tried this. We spotted 5 birds strutting in the middle of a field with many rolling mounds we could use as cover as we approached. We called with no luck so figured it was time to get creative. Went back to the truck and got Pretty Boy and crawled through the various dips in the field until we got to within about 100 yards. At that point I crested the hill and hid behind Pretty Boy and placed him on the stake in view of the gobblers. I then crawled back made a few calls followed by a gobble tube, and the race was on.Click for more...
Hello, I just wanted to let you know how much I like the Carry-Lite Deer Decoy. I took my 9-year old granddaughter on her first deer hunting trip. We live in Van Buren. We went to the Mountainburg area to hunt. We took the Carry-Lite Deer Decoy and some Code Blue Doe Estrous with us. We set up in our little pop-up blind. I put the decoy out and put some scent on it. We set up about 5 am. A little after 6 am doe’s started coming out. I asked her is she wanted to shoot a doe (this is the Arkansas youth hunt on November 4, 2006). Well, about 6:30 am a buck shows up. He got within 85 yards and she shot the 7-point buck. This was her 1st deer to kill. We had a lot of fun together. Thanks to your products and hard work. This Grandpaw and Granddaughter will have an event that we will remember the rest of our lives. Thank you. Oh, yes, we had the deer shoulder mounted. Thank you so much for a deer season of a lifetime for me.
Jeff W.Van Buren, AR