Last season I purchased a B-Mobile decoy and had some success with it. I was never fully satisfied with the way the B-Mobile looked, but it was extremely easy to carry around and that helped me choose it. I have since made some modifications to the decoy to help add some realism to it. 

The first thing I did was toss the silk screen tail and replace it with a tail off of an Eastern turkey from the previous season. Next, I pulled out the synthetic beard and glued in a real one. Then I went for the most important party of any decoy - the eyes. I ordered a set of wild turkey glass eyes from a taxidermy catalog, cut out the plastic eyes, filled the head with expanding foam and then attached the eyes to the decoy using a white caulk. My latest modification to the B-Mobile has been to use some old hobby paint I had lying around to paint the head red and add some color to the beak - the beak should be more white, but I had to work with what I had and a mixture of yellow and white gave me the color I came up with. 

I was in need of a hen decoy and after scouring the Internet I found Dave Smith Decoys. Now, these decoys are not cheap - $120 for the hen and $160 for the jake - but they are the most realistic looking decoys you can buy right now next to using a turkey mount. These decoys are not soft plastic decoys though, they are hard bodied decoys so carrying a set around might be a pain. The carrying case the DSD Hen comes with is nice, but the material makes it noisy. I use the mesh carrying case from the B-Mobile and simply put the hen inside the gobbler body when transporting them.

This will be my first season using the B-Mobile with the DSD Hen and I am excited to see what this combination can do. Hopefully I will be posting some follow up stories with a bow in one hand and a big ole Tom in the other.