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Title: Which Jake decoy
Post by: Drthorn on April 01, 2025, 05:22:34 PM
Primos gobstopper or Flextone Jake

Wanting to purchase one but can't decide.

Which one do you all like ?


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Title: Re: Which Jake decoy
Post by: Zobo on April 01, 2025, 06:22:07 PM
Idk, but my advice: look up the specs and buy the one that weighs less 👍
Title: Re: Which Jake decoy
Post by: Lcmacd 58 on April 01, 2025, 07:52:35 PM
If weight is an issue ... go with the advice above

If not ... Dave Smith
Title: Re: Which Jake decoy
Post by: Marc on April 01, 2025, 11:23:03 PM
I like the Funky Chicken...  The turkeys seem to hate that thing.

Hunted with one last weekend for the first time in a while, and a trio of jakes came in, and absolutely beat it.  First they wing-beat it, and when it went down, they stomped and pecked it...

In the past I have hunted over Dave Smith, and own a Zink...  Had birds come into them, but also had birds avoid them like the plague.  I feel far fewer birds have shied away from the Funky Chicken.

It looks ridiculous, but is seems to simultaneously insight intense anger and confidence.  Lightest jake decoy made to boot.  I have seen it send birds into a rage like no other decoy (although I have never used full-strutt decoys).

If I am going to take a jake decoy, rational observation would point towards the Zink decoy, which looks very realistic, and not bad to carry...  But my experience with the reaction to the Funky Chicken makes me choose that one...  Plus being too lazy to carry the larger/heavier decoy.
Title: Re: Which Jake decoy
Post by: joey46 on April 02, 2025, 06:01:53 AM
One more vote for "Funky". He scored for us again last Monday. Already posted the story and a picture of two Jakes giving Funky the "bad eye" in my recent post "Kept Plugging Away".  My buddy has a breeder hen decoy and we placed Funky over her.  An hour after the jakes left two long beards, from a distance away, spotted him and attacked at a dead run.  We got them both.  Was not Funky 's first buddy double for us over the years.   My buddy says he's almost embarrassed to have Funky in the pictures but he gets over it.  Lol.