Need decoy advice.

[Killminister]

Need some decoy advice...bout to purchase. What decoy or combination do you use that you have had success with? Brand/gender/position. Thanks

 

[Buck Assassin]

Most of this season I have used a single feeding or standing hen, and sometimes put out killer b with her. Besides killer, I use the cheap foam or blow up hen decoys from walmart.
Last Saturday I had out a feeding hen (blow up) and a standing hen (foam) and had a gobbler come within 2-3 yards of them strutting.

 

[muddyboots]

I never use them.

 

[REN]

usually dont use them, if i do i just use the simple foam ones. 1 hen with a jake or just the hen

 

[knightrider]

in the field adges i use a strutting jake mobile facing me at 20 yards in front of me and a little to my right and a she mobile hen facing me about 10 feet to the left of the jake decoy, i face them towards me so the tom will strut around them to face off with the jake, when he comes around the decoys i let him have it, in the woods if i use one i only use the hen facing me at twenty yards.

 

[pseshooter300]

I use a hen and a Jake but a hen would probably fine by itself

 

[droptine]

none. been involved with 6 birds dying this year. Some field edges and some in the woods. No decoys used

 

[megalomaniac]

Inflatable decoys are the way to go for field birds. They'll collapse down to nothing.

There is nothing more fun than watching a torn-up gobbler attack, maul, and stomp a decoy right in front of you

 

[stik]

i believe a decoy would have helped on the opening day bird that hung up.
we had a decoy out for the 1st kill but i don't think he saw it. he was more interested in the real hen that was 10 yds. in front of us.
the second bird, the decoy was in the field behind me but i think he saw it just before i shot him.

 

[deerchaser007]

full strut b mobile with a real fan has been good to me this year,.. i only use it when i have located a dominant bird though,.. other than that,.. 1 feeding hen for feilds,.. no deks in the woods

 

[feathersandfur2214]

I use the Redhaead decoys. they look and perform awesome.Great decoys for a great price !

 

[String Music]

For fields, I like a semi-strut jake with a hen in the breeding position about 3 yards in front of him. I'll also throw out at least one feeding hen.

 

[LUNGBLOOD]

I have killed some birds that I might not have killed without a decoy. Depends on the situation when I'm getting set up. If I think I am too close to a bird then I wont bother with it. I only have one hen decoy that I carry with me. I have had it for at least 15 years. It has been taken advantage of by anxious gobblers and stomped by several hens. Alot of the paint is missing but it still works.