Do you set up decoys on logging roads in wooded areas and red pine plantations?
Thanks for Input.
I have, don't have big fields, so when nothing's going on I'll deke out sometimes on roads.
I prefer not to use them and use the terrain to my advantage. I will use a hen when I feel that the tom may hang up due to being able to see where the "hen" should be before coming into range. I carry one in my vest but a lot of times it's extra padding for my back.
In thicker cover I tend not to use decoys... It seems to me that birds will continue forward motion in dense areas until they see a decoy...
I tend to use decoys in clearings and areas where birds can see for a bit...
Yep, roads are good...
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I am with Dirt Road Ninja. I hunt mostly pine tracts and no open fields. I will work without them unless it is slow then I will set up the decoys in our small food plots (1/4 acre or less) and try to bring anything around in.
Best tactic i have found for logging roads is use the decoy to pull the bird past you.... What i mean is set up at a 90 to the road and put your decoy 20-30 yards behind you down the road. I have used this to perfection in getting 15 yard shot as he passes by me to go to the decoy. he'll never know your there.
Quote from: Anobody on March 13, 2016, 06:08:35 PM
Best tactic i have found for logging roads is use the decoy to pull the bird past you.... What i mean is set up at a 90 to the road and put your decoy 20-30 yards behind you down the road. I have used this to perfection in getting 15 yard shot as he passes by me to go to the decoy. he'll never know your there.
Works great for me too.
While I've taken many more gobblers in open fields, I have gotten a few in the middle of a 40 acre woods. In these situations, it generally happens after the birds have flown down and made their way to an open field. I set up in the woods a couple of hundred yards away from where they are as evidenced by gobbling. Using my Pretty Boy and a couple hen decoys, I start yelping and eventually cut in with my Primos gobble tube. If there is a subordinate gobbler that is just watching the breeding activity in the open field, sometimes that bird will slip away and seek me out, almost always coming in silently, so keep vigilant. There was even a time when a gobbler appeared on top of a 10' log pile just 30 yards away from my set up. I assume that he was up there so as to get a better view of the new hen and intruder gobbler that he had been hearing. It was a fatal mistake for him. I've found that subordinate gobblers are opportunists, looking for lonely hens or hens that are with another gobbler that can be run off via peck order. There's no love lost by the subordinate gobblers for the boss gobbler as evidenced by the attack on him once he is shot and flopping around. I've even seen them walk off just to then turn around, come back to the downed boss bird, and give him another dose of what he had been dishing out to them.
he got love on his mind!
Quote from: Anobody on March 13, 2016, 06:08:35 PM
Best tactic i have found for logging roads is use the decoy to pull the bird past you.... What i mean is set up at a 90 to the road and put your decoy 20-30 yards behind you down the road. I have used this to perfection in getting 15 yard shot as he passes by me to go to the decoy. he'll never know your there.
I have used deeks in wooded areas with great success but I do not do it often since I too like to use the lay of the land to my advantage. Good luck.
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