DIY: Building a better decoy
Make your modest whitetail decoy far more appealing with just a few simple modifications. Here's how to seal the deal for enraged bucks.
Make your modest whitetail decoy far more appealing with just a few simple modifications. Here's how to seal the deal for enraged bucks.
A reader asks if it is permitted to use a confidence decoy (such as a turkey) while hunting for deer during the deer season.
I believe a wild turkey can make a fool out of even the best hunter — but, I also believe, most of the time, they can’t do that without our assistance.
These tips will lengthen the life of your decoys, add realism, and give you more bang for your buck, contributor Scott McGuigan wrote in the 2018-2019 Hunting Annual.
This great DIY project was submitted by one of our readers, Grant Morgan from Stayner. The decoy fits in a large freezer bag and weighs just a couple of pounds.
Decoy realism counts in turkey hunting, but I’m not yet ready to spend several hundred dollars on an ultra-realistic model. Instead, I make use of the spoils of a previous hunt... Using this process, your decoy will be almost indistinguishable from the real thing, and moreover, it will appear to be in strut.
Managing Editor Ray Blades responds.
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