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nate_p_26
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Before I went to the stand today I read an article in a magazine about using decoys. It suggested to use a bedded doe. So I took the legs off my carry-lite and placed it in a picked corn field. I placed the decoy upwind from my lane and facing away from me, thinking a deer would try to come up behind it. The field that I was hunting just got finished being picked at noon. I kinda wedged the decoy between two corn stalks, spayed it down good with dead down wind, and put out a little bit of doe in estrus. At about 2:00 a nice doe made her way to the field edge. Once she saw the decoy she went right up to it, but when she got the wind of the estrus she sorta spooked. She trotted directly under me and fed around for about ten more minutes before wondering away. At 3:40 I saw a buck heading down the edge of the timber. The buck circled down wind as planned and stopped right behind the decoy with his nose down. He bristled up and slowed to a stop. Thats when I took the shot. He was quarting away just a little bit. I watched him go down about 40 yards from the shot.
Here is a pic of the decoy set up.
Here is a pic of the decoy set up.
