Although I've done it a little over the last 2 years (never have tried it in Iowa) and will probably do it again someday, I dislike it overall. Like others have said, it doesn't take much skill. But that's about par for the course these days with anything. Everyone wants to be awesome at whatever, but they don't want to learn and earn it. They want their photos and video right now so they can post them all over hell and brag to people they don't even know.
Find the right bird(s) and they come on a string. Someone said it's not that easy. Well, it ain't hard. Stay behind the decoy/fan, use the terrain, you don't even gotta get very close to them from what I've seen. Once they see the fan, that's too close to their hens and they're ready fight. Mid-day it's about the only good high percentage option in some places and situations. Kill them off the roost or going to roost, or they walk around with their harem all day long. All these guide services advertising how many birds they're killing each spring, what a joke. One guy with a reaper decoy that knows what he's doing half ass could kill all those birds himself as many birds are around in some places and all the ground the guides have. Most of the ones I'm speaking of are reaping very high percent of their kills. I couldn't imagine going on a guided turkey hunt and the guide saying 'Ok there he is, get to that tree, put the fan up, then shoot him when he gets in range'.
Doug, you seem to hunt the same spot every year and do well. How much skill does that take? Not knocking it, just asking. Over the course of a few springs, you know where birds generally roost and then also spend the rest of the morning. You sit in a blind with a shotgun in a comfy chair and wait. You mentioned good calling too, how much of that do you think plays into your success when the birds are going to be there anyway and see your DSD look-a-like decoys? I'd guess very little.
I can't stand hunting out of a blind with a gun. Love propping myself up against a tree with a bird going apeshit 75 yards away in the tree. Lug the blind around bowhunting for obvious reasons. I hunt about a half a dozen spots, one in particular is pretty consistent so of course I hunt it quite a bit. It does get hunted by a half dozen other guys so that doesn't help. Haven't seen or heard a bird there this year, even before season. Killed a bird on a piece that I started hunting in 2007 and don't believe I've killed a bird there in 5 or 6 years. Hit it here and there, sometimes there's a bird or 2 around and sometimes there isn't.
If I don't turkey hunt like you, I'm doing it wrong. If you don't hunt like me, you're doing it wrong. We all have opinions and just like assholes, they all stink. Good luck to anyone still holding a tag or 2 these last few days.