I did a little project with my 4 year old son. He wanted to make a jake decoy using a turkey fan I had frozen from last year's bird.

April 2014


1.) cleaned all meat and skin off then and dried with 20 mule team borax, dried for about a week clamped down flat on cardboard

2.) added JB weld to secure base

3.) dried overnight they spray painted black and drilled 7/64th inch hole to mount to decoy







Final product!!

Cant wait until April and hopefully we shoot a gobbler off this decoy!!

January 2015

Looks great!

Looks good Justin.

That ought to bring them in...Love the Excalibur

Looking good. Only thing I might do is trim that beard short so they can see it sticking out. Or you could double it and rubber band/zip tie it short. That and the strutting jake fan outta bring em in ready to flog. Good luck to you guys this spring.

Great point. I actually did this last night after I took the photos. =)

thanks!!
Good luck to you as well.

Justin, I made the exact type of decoy with one of my real Jake fan mounts about 4-5 years ago! It has brought in a few dead big ole' tom's since that slight modification to a real Jake fan! The real fan looks so much better than the fake one that came with it! I agree with the shorter beard as well, makes it more looking like a subordinate jake gobbler then. It looks like you had a lot a fun with the project and with a fantastic lil helper as well. Good luck and keep us posted on how you do with it this upcoming turkey season! Good luck my friend and great pics!

I was just thinking today that I should take my old fan mount and add it to my jake decoy before the season! Looks like yours turned out great!