Ok I've tried single hens , flocks of hens, Strutting jakes, jake tramping on a crouched hen.
Annybody tell me whats worked for them. I have a museum full of dekes now but just can find the right set up . Any successful set ups. I had a big tom come in on a Avian X and the wind spun it facing the Tom that was strutting . It hung him up at 65 yds . I'm thinking Jake and Hen for early season almost side by side to see if I can make the big tom jealous
Decoy Strategies
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I've tried a bunch of combinations...sometimes they work, sometimes they don't. Usually, a hen and jake combo works well for me early in the season, but then I switch to a single hen later on. I don't experiment with 'em much anymore.
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All I know is I have no idea. It always seems lately down here that the dang decoys spook the gobbler.
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I even tried a goose hunting strategy and set 9 decoys . A jake came in full tilt from 500 yards away,
I had a full strut Jake and had two big toms come out in the field a hundred yards away walk about 150 yards out into the field. Then they turned around and ran at him when I pasted the bigger one.
I had a full strut Jake and had two big toms come out in the field a hundred yards away walk about 150 yards out into the field. Then they turned around and ran at him when I pasted the bigger one.
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I went to a Single Avian X as we hunt some little bushes or fence rows and open corn stubble or winter wheat. The decoy helps pull them across the fields sometimes. Most of the bushes are 2 to 5 acres surrounded by wide open fields with thin fence rows
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Around here, the thicker the cover, the more they seem to avoid decoys. At least, it seems that way. I'm stuck working field birds most of the time, though.Gobbler wrote:All I know is I have no idea. It always seems lately down here that the dang decoys spook the gobbler.
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When you get it figured out you can be sitting on a Caribbean Island drinking umbrella drinks after we all pay for the answer.
I was not his father but he was my son,,MAK IV, 10-15-1993 - 4-22-2007
"Rest in Peace my Little Buddy"
"Rest in Peace my Little Buddy"
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No truer statement.Grumpy wrote:When you get it figured out you can be sitting on a Caribbean Island drinking umbrella drinks after we all pay for the answer.
What use to work for me when I hunted easterns was two hens milling around . one feeder and one looking. Then a Jake about 10 to 15 yards away from them watching them.
Dang I killed some birds with that.
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X2 !!!!! I've used the same setup as well and its funny you mention this. Today, behind the office here there was one hen being trailed by 2 toms and a jake. The thing is, those gobblers were almost always 10yds or more away from her and never got real close.......... they kept their distance.Gobbler wrote: What use to work for me when I hunted easterns was two hens milling around . one feeder and one looking. Then a Jake about 10 to 15 yards away from them watching them.
Dang I killed some birds with that.
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Seems like a lot of birds are killed with a full strut Tom decoy too.
I was not his father but he was my son,,MAK IV, 10-15-1993 - 4-22-2007
"Rest in Peace my Little Buddy"
"Rest in Peace my Little Buddy"