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Author Topic: Decoys and positions  (Read 3789 times)

Offline jbo225

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Decoys and positions
« on: January 12, 2018, 09:27:24 PM »
What type of decoy setup do yall normally run and how do yall position them? 2 hens and a jake?

Offline allchokedup

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #1 on: January 12, 2018, 10:15:38 PM »
I use a DSD jake and hen.
If I’m hunting with my crossbow I like to have them 20 yards slightly to my left and they are set as walking quartering to my left.

Offline Greg Massey

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2018, 10:22:32 PM »
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Offline Gobble!

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2018, 11:24:13 PM »
It varies. I have used them less and less over the last few years and my success has been going up. I do like hunting over decoys though. My favorite setup is a strutter with a hen in the breeding position. I like watching birds run in to die. If I’m hunting birds that have been hunted I don’t normally put out more than just a hen. A gobbler will come in and face a gobbler decoy.

Offline MK M GOBL

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2018, 11:28:15 PM »
I set to the situation, depends on a lot of factors...

I have/use DSD's!!

Full Strut Tom
3/4 Strut Jake
Upright Hen
Feeding Hen
Leading Hen

If you are looking to start with decoys I always go to Upright hen first, second is Jake then add in a feeding hen. There is a learning curve to using decoys, I hunt a Strutter but you need to hunt him "right" and my last is the leading hen.

Times when I have them all out to times I don't use them at all... I have some "rules" I go by when I set, a lot to go into but here's a bit with it.

http://oldgobbler.com/Forum/index.php/topic,70971.0.html

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Offline Kylongspur88

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2018, 11:35:20 PM »
I only use an upright dsd hen when hunting fields. I like to keep them looking in the woods.

Offline VA_Birdhunter

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #6 on: January 13, 2018, 12:39:31 AM »
It varies. I have used them less and less over the last few years and my success has been going up. I do like hunting over decoys though. My favorite setup is a strutter with a hen in the breeding position. I like watching birds run in to die. If I’m hunting birds that have been hunted I don’t normally put out more than just a hen. A gobbler will come in and face a gobbler decoy.

Gobble!....I have experienced the same. ..I'm  more successful without decoys.  Ive had several hang up over them and many quickly leave once they see them.  I didnt use them for yrs but started when i started filming to help cover my added movements.  But I'm thinking seriously about leaving them at home this year.  I use avian x dcoys and they look great but they have not made me more successful in most cases.  Just my observation and experience.

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Offline silvestris

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2018, 01:12:24 AM »
Thankfully, a problem I don’ Have to ponder.
“[T]he changing environment will someday be totally and irrevocably unsuitable for the wild turkey.  Unless mankind precedes the birds in extinction, we probably will not be hunting turkeys for too much longer.”  Ken Morgan, “Turkey Hunting, A One Man Game

Offline dejake

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2018, 03:28:14 AM »
I only use them if I'm hunting a field; 2 feeding hens and an upright hen.

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2018, 08:07:39 AM »
I use 3 dsd’s. It’s a killer combination for me anyways
Upright
Feeder
Jake


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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2018, 09:27:39 AM »
There it is the first..."what decoys you run" question lol.
All the decoys I've seen have been stationary?
If you make everything easy how do you know when your good at anything?

Offline Greg Massey

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2018, 09:44:09 AM »
There it is the first..."what decoys you run" question lol.
All the decoys I've seen have been stationary?
  It depends if you are running with them...ha ha ha

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #12 on: January 13, 2018, 11:27:10 AM »
There it is the first..."what decoys you run" question lol.
All the decoys I've seen have been stationary?

I know there’s at least one that runs on a rc truck.

Offline PALongspur

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2018, 09:06:13 AM »
My favorite position is in the truck where they belong!!

In all seriousness, when I use one it's normally a single DSD hen.

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Re: Decoys and positions
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2018, 09:51:51 AM »
There it is the first..."what decoys you run" question lol.
All the decoys I've seen have been stationary?
I saw one in Ohio a few years ago that a guy was showing a bunch of people at a get together.  It was a robotic decoy with interchangeable heads.  I thought man, turkey hunting has really been dumbed down since I first started.  I think it was called Ace In The Hole.   
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