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This Is My Deer Decoy. I Love Him.

By: Mark Kayser
7 comments On the Trail with Mark Kayser

Nov 15

This is my deer decoy. I love him. Why? The other day I decoyed four different white-tailed bucks within bow range within an hour’s time. Had my shooting been on, I would have been tagged out. But that’s another long, embarrassing story.

Here are some tips for using a deer decoy:

- Use scent-eliminating products to cleanse your deer decoy. I use Scent-A-Way products from Hunter’s Specialties.

- Keep your deer decoy close. I like my decoy to be within 20 yards or closer of my stand or ground blind. If you put it further out, you risk a buck circling too far.

- Turn the ears on your deer decoy to make it look tough. I want my decoy to send a message of “let’s rumble.”

If you’re hunting whitetails right now you’ve undoubtedly been seeing chasing and breeding activity. Every mature buck we witnessed was either trailing a doe coming into heat or actively breeding. It’s a wild, wild whitetail world. I watched two bucks today actually trade hot does at midday. The excitement was so crazy that they swapped does and didn’t even realize it in the middle of a breeding frenzy that included five additional bucks.

I have two more days of bowhunting left before I move to my next hunt. Good luck, and I’ll keep you posted.

P.S. The rock is on my deer decoy's back to keep him from tipping over in the high winds. The real deer didn't mind at all. 

7 comments

# u001574
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 7:15 PM
I was in hunting camp last week in Kansas. The other hunter in camp used a decay on the last day of his hunt. The had several bucks come in to "check it out". I big mature deer came in and circled around and came face to face with the decoy. The hunter finally took him down but not before the buck actually snort wheezed at the decoy. He said it was his most exciting time in the deer woods.
# LBshooter
Tuesday, November 15, 2011 9:07 PM
I used a doe decoy on thursday Nov 10th at the back end of a corn field and had a nice doe come in to check her out, and when she tried to get down wind she was forced to walk between the decoy and my stand, and thats when my long bow did its job. She ran 50 yrds and that was that. I will be using little missy again on the 16th and hope she repeats her magic.
# LBshooter
Wednesday, November 16, 2011 10:33 PM
Well. regarding my previous post on the 15th little missy did her job again. Set her up in a corn field and a spike came down the tree line and was focused on her behind and unaware of me 5yards behind him and my longbow put a woodsman right behind his front leg and out the otherside, 40 yrds and it was over for him.
If you haven't tried a decoy your truely missing out on a great way to hunt deer.
# dhutton1
Thursday, November 17, 2011 11:20 AM
Sunday November 13th
During the peak of the rut I like to use a doe decoy as it seem to arouse not only the bucks but the does as well. I watched a large mature buck come 200 yards across a cut bean field just to check it out. A nice 9 point that left in the back of my truck. That evening I had a similar situation with a mature doe and she also got the free ride home. When using a decoys during rifle season always make sure it is facing away from your stand in case some on else decides to shoot it. I hunt on private ground but always take precautions.
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# rstolte jr
Tuesday, November 22, 2011 12:32 PM
I used a decoy once that was so lifelike i had another hunter walk almost 500 yards onto private property just to shoot an arrow into it.needless to say i kept his arrow and the game warden took 250 dollars from him as a way of saying keep off other peoples land the nerve of some people never fails to amaze me.
# ekaj11
Monday, November 28, 2011 6:53 PM
rstolte jr, haha, that would be some unbelievable marketing for that type of decoy, what brand of decoys do you guys suggest? Never hunted over one but heard great things about them.
# LBshooter
Sunday, December 18, 2011 9:41 AM
ekaj11, I would say stick to any of the 3D decoys, more effort to get to your stand, but, well worth it. Check craigslist in sporting section, I picked up four flambeau redi does for $90.
Good luck.

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