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Title: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 25, 2021, 10:03:10 AM

Have been greatly anticipating tomorrow's 1st decoy hunt of the season. Did not sleep last night as the anticipation had a grasp on me. Have decoyed in 19 bucks at this setup the past two seasons.

Have four bucks of interest very close by.

Are there others that employ decoying in their arsenal?

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: TIM B on October 25, 2021, 10:27:25 AM

I have tried a few times w a doe but was thinking about trying a buck.  What’s your set up friend?  Pics?
Tim B

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 25, 2021, 11:59:17 AM

This setup is adjacent to a 20 acre hi grass sanctuary. There is a 25 yard wide mowed strip that is 150 yards long with a 90 degree bend…it has a 20 yard wide clover strip down the middle that runs the 150 yards and into two hidden food plots. My set up is positioned at the bend such that the deer can see the decoy from either end.

I will be using a buck decoy over the nest week,,,then add a doe for the next few weeks….may use a doe -only setup towards the latter part of November….want the decoys to be no further away than 14 yards ….there are situations that if I am confident that the bucks will circle a certain way ,then I may push the decoys out in order for the buck to circle in front of me.

Will be rattling and grunt calling the 1st week…Use grunt calls and can sequences with the Doe/Buck setup.

Note: Positioning can be a crap shoot…the bucks routinely approach my decoys  form both the front and rear.

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Bisch on October 25, 2021, 12:01:30 PM

Good luck Scott!

I’ve never tried a decoy.

Bisch

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 25, 2021, 12:11:38 PM

 

This merely one set up...I tupically have the buck angled toward the blind.

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 25, 2021, 12:16:16 PM

Thank you Bisch...

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: TIM B on October 25, 2021, 12:57:17 PM

I like the set up - is that the ready doe without the legs?
Tim B

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 25, 2021, 03:40:47 PM

Tim...Yes

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 25, 2021, 03:44:24 PM

Procuring  a hi priced decoy may be quite overrated.

A friend and I shared a heavily shot up glendale buck one season. Together, we decoyed in 17 bucks. He actually harvested an upper 150's buck over it.

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: TIM B on October 25, 2021, 04:23:58 PM

Ya I don’t have a buck decoy - I thought about attaching a small rack or half rack to my doe.  It’s a ready doe like yours.
Tim B

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: K2 on October 26, 2021, 04:55:28 PM

Is it better to use a buck or doe in the pre-rut searching phase?  Thanks.  Ken

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Friend on October 26, 2021, 08:28:50 PM

Decoyed in one young buck this afternoon...

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Terry Green on October 26, 2021, 10:26:43 PM

Nice Scott!  I now have enjoyed that scene twice.  :campfire:

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: JamesD on October 26, 2021, 11:14:03 PM

Nice setup. I love decoying deer myself. There's an old post here on Tradgang by Gene Wensel where, Gene was putting wooden clothes pins on a Montana Dreamy Doe decoy to make it look like a spike. I tried it last year and took a 140 class 8 over that setup. I had his running budding backed up to the decoy, snort wheezing and urinating on the ground behind the decoy. I will also say that this was during the chasing phase, and the does that spotted my decoy that morning went around it by 100 to 150 yards.

Title: Re: Decoying
Post by: Balding Kansan on October 27, 2021, 10:33:40 AM

I’ve had mixed results and don’t mess with it anymore.

But, what helped a bunch was we made our own tail out of a brown and white sock sewed together with a coat hanger for shape. Before we closed it up we placed a doe bleat inside of it, then fishing line from the tip of the tail, over a branch and back to the deer stand. Pull on string, tail raises up, bleat can loads up, lower the string and a bleat comes out of her backside…it was comical at times to see the reactions of the deer.