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A hurry up question

moosehunter

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Late yesterday I was working a stud of a bird but before he came into my setup he hooked up with a single hen and I lost him. He was along a wooded fenceline and I was setup on a hilltop in the open. Both those birds seemed to head towards an outside wooded corner. Is it a good idea to setup today right on that corner and wait?

This guy is a knuckledraggin tank...............
 
Sounds like you've put yourself in a visible spot, which is pretty important. I'd personally set up in the open one more time and see what happens. If you see birds head to the corner again, then I'd be there forsure the next time. If the hen wouldn't have come along, that bird might have been in your lap. Sounds like a good spot to me. /forum/images/%%GRAEMLIN_URL%%/cool.gif
 
I'd set out a strutting gobbler decoy along with the rest of your setup. That's a good setup for birds to come in and check out regardless if they have hens with them or not.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd set out a strutting gobbler decoy along with the rest of your setup </div></div>

I had a pretty boy up. the bird was doing everythin cept gobbling when I called at him till he saw then hen. maybe i should not use the pretty boy. i need more ideas. i'm not sure what would be a smart move.............
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: SEIowaDeerslayer</div><div class="ubbcode-body">I'd set out a strutting gobbler decoy along with the rest of your setup. That's a good setup for birds to come in and check out regardless if they have hens with them or not. </div></div>

That's what happened to me this weekend. Gobbler and lone hen came from across the field to my decoy setup.
 
Decoys are an all around gamble in IMO. Somedays they make the hunt..... others they are the worst thing you could do. All you can do is experiment. Hell, the next time he might be leaving that hen to attack your strutter deek, who knows. I'm guessing you're bowhunting? I hunt with the strutter deek and a hen in the first 3 seasons, then just hens late 4th. It gets to be a matter of timing, you go out enough eventually you'll hit a bird in the right mood for deeks. That's my bowhunt strategy anyway. If I'm gun hunting I don't use any deeks.
 
If he was in an area you see toms a lot of times I'd move over there and wait. I don't know about the deeks, depends on how much you've been hunting the area with them.
 
I would move over there and leave the Pretty Boy in the truck.I have watched my Pretty Boy scare alot of birds off. It does work sometimes but I am starting to think that a half strut Jake would be a better option. I even have a Jake fan in my Pretty Boy but it has spooked alot of birds. In Kansas it worked on 2 birds in the same afternoon. But I am a run-and-gun guy so I would be set-up on the other fence and ready to smack him. It may not work who knows but you never know it might work!
 
I'm starting to loose faith in Pretty boy. I had 4 birds come into the field I was hunting on Saturday morning. They hung up at about 60 yards and gobbled thier heads off for about an hour. They wanted nothing to do with Pretty boy.
 
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