Hunting with Deer Decoys
Filed under: Ask Grant, Hunting Tactics
Do you recommend hunting with decoys? If so, when is the best time to use them (rut, prerut, postrut, etc.)? What brand do you recommend? I hunt on a lot of steep mountainous terrain and was looking at some of the models that are photographic images of deer (Montana Whitetail Dream Team Decoy) due to their compact size and not the bulky 3-D plastic ones (Flambeau Masters Series). Do you think that these are as good? Thanks! Sam
Sam,
I haven’t used deer decoys in a few years. Decoys can be very effective, but I’ve simply been using other techniques. I have a close friend in Kansas that has had repeated success harvesting whitetails, mulies, and antelope using the photographic image decoys. I hope to try some this coming turkey season. They’d be much easier to pack around The Proving Grounds than the traditional decoys.
Growing Deer together,
Grant
