Every turkey is a trophy, but sometimes you want to take the dominant big daddy of an area just to say that you did. This often requires a change of tactics, especially if he's hanging out with hens.
Wild turkeys are ruled by the breeding cycle during spring. Male birds fight for dominance to breed hens. Usually, this creates one or two dominant birds controlling the majority of the hens with satellite gobblers holding on the fringes trying to sneak a hen away from the group or finding one alone.
Often these are the birds that hunters end up staring at over a shotgun's sights.
Dominant gobblers are often more difficult to call into gun range because they already have hens. They have no reason to try and find that lone hen calling so seductively (you) to him from just over the hill. A dominant gobbler expects that hen to find him. One way to entice that ole dominant gobbler into range is by challenging his dominance with a strutting decoy, such as the Flambeau King Strut, and a couple of hen decoys.
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