Does the Cow Decoy really work?

[stevetatum]

I attend college at SDSU in brookings SD. Lately i have been getting into waterfowl hunting that is better than i have ever seen. Some of it consists of snow goose, and we soon learned that it is almost impossible to deek any amount if you dont have 500 or more decoys. So we resorted to jump shooting them and this has worked okay we have killed right at 100. Recently i heard some gossip about using a cow silluette and just sneaking within a few yards. Just wondering if there is any truth to this and if it works how well it does work??

[Duckmasta]

i don't know about a few yards but i think they do. it depends on what color you paint them. paint them the same color of cows that are near where you hunt. tell me how it goes if you try it

[johnch]

It is not realy a Decoy , more like a blind .
And yes they work

This fall I did a sneak hunt several times on a pond in the middle of a cow pasture .
That was grazed down to almost nothing

No place to hide .
Tryed layout blinds and got 1 flock to come in , OK but not good .

So we tryed 1/4" plywood cows
We sat in the barn till several flocks landed in and around the pond .
Grabed the "Cows" and slowly walked up to 20 or so yds from the geese .
Droped the "cow" and shot the geese as they took off .
Worked several times , will do it again when Geese come back in .


Also out west we saw Snows out in a big wide open feild .
Could not figure out how to get close .
Every time the wind blew tumble weed blew acrost the feild .
The geese ignored the tumble weed

So we grabed several tumble weeds and our guns and ran at the geese using the tumble weed as a blind to cover our movement .
It didn't matter that we were running against the wind .

We were able to get into the flock before they spooked

If I remember right , we got 8 or 9 geese and a little work out

Johnch

[duramaxnay6]

I might have to try and make a couple of those to sneak snow geese. They are usually in the middle of the field where I can'tsneak up onthem.