|
|
Post by 10point on Nov 3, 2019 8:35:38 GMT -5
Anyone have good experiences with a doe decoy? I have a blind over a cut Bean field and a bucj popped out the other night when I grunted and I think if I would had a decoy it might have made the difference. Thinking about getting one for my rut cation coming up.
|
|
|
|
Post by genesis273 on Nov 3, 2019 14:44:52 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by bill9068 on Nov 3, 2019 18:10:42 GMT -5
Use one every year at this time, usually have a shooter buck check it out.
|
|
Deleted
Deleted Member
Posts: 0
|
Post by Deleted on Nov 4, 2019 7:11:01 GMT -5
At one point, I lugged a decoy around. It could be used as a small racked buck, or a doe decoy. Never had anything come close to it. I remember once I had it in a cut corn field, only 20 yards from my ladderstand. It was just before legal shooting time, you know, that time when you can sometimes kind of tell if something`s there, but not really well. I saw a deer, maybe 40 yard out from the decoy, standing there, staring the decoy down, then suddenly, it just disappeared into the darkness and shadows.
I quit messing with the decoy shortly after that, and regretted having spent the money on the thing.
|
|
|
|
Post by genesis273 on Nov 4, 2019 7:26:58 GMT -5
They can be like turkey decoys. Just chunkier to carry around. Sometimes they do the job, other times they cost ya. I've experienced both. Here's a buck I harvested a few years back. He came into the Boss Buck ready to tear his plastic hide off!  |
|
|
|
Post by genesis273 on Nov 4, 2019 11:28:52 GMT -5
I'm actually using mine today on my all day sit.  |
|
|
|
Post by medic22 on Nov 4, 2019 11:42:00 GMT -5
Ive gone back and forth about ordering the montana decoys for ease of lugging it around. Everytime im ready to commit, so.ething happens that convinces me I dont really need them.
|
|
|
|
Post by genesis273 on Nov 4, 2019 13:40:26 GMT -5
I don't think anyone really NEEDS them. Just something fun, and sometimes frustrating, to play with.
|
|
|
|
Post by medic22 on Nov 4, 2019 15:22:50 GMT -5
I don't think anyone really NEEDS them. Just something fun, and sometimes frustrating, to play with. Ive certainly spent money for less logical reasons. |
|
|
|
Post by jbird on Nov 4, 2019 16:11:35 GMT -5
I have used a buck or a doe decoy. The only down side I have seen from a doe decoy is that in my area the other does freak out! They stomp and snort and head-bob and the like trying to figure out who the new chick is. Bucks....bucks don't care. I like to use a buck decoy in the early rut and a doe decoy later. I put mine out in the cut fields or in a plot where the deer can see them from a great distance and I put a piece or white plastic bag on it to flutter in the wind to create movement. I have pulled deer from 300 yards before. I use an old 3D archery target. I put 1 or 2 ribbons of a bright color on it around the neck and or waist if using in firearms season. When they work they certainly distract the deer. I like putting them where the deer has to walk past me to get to the decoy. I tend to use mine in the same spot and simply toss it in the weeds and cover with some camo burlap. The 2D decoys I have had no luck with. The plastic decoys can be noisy and not very lifelike at times. My foam decoy looks like hell but tends to fool the deer.
|
|
