Key Points to help you have a successful hunt with your decoys.

1. Use decoys only in the evening for a field set-up. Trying to slip into the field before dawn, while the deer are also in the field, will only spook the them.
2. Arrive early enough to get the decoys set up and yourself hidden an hour or more before you expect the first deer to arrive on the scene.
3. Maximum visibility. Set the decoys where deer can see them from as far away as possible.
4. Use edge cover if you have to, but take advantage of any cover out in the field itself, such as sloughs, rock piles, hay bales, small patches of brush or discarded machinery for the ultimate pre-rut set-up.
5. Bedded does are important to this set-up. Evidently the sight of deer bedded in the field, gives approaching deer the impression that this is a relaxed situation.

Take a decoy on your next hunting adventure, and let the fun begin!

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