I've been using deer decoys for~15 yrs, and have enjoyed many, manyhunts because of them. You get to see and study social behaviors not often seen.However,I have shifted to using decoys less and less over the years. WhenI do use them, I often use a buck decoy, sometimes justa doe decoy, or once in a while, both - it's all situational dependent and based on past experience. There can beadown side tousing decoys.I never use a decoy when I amprimarily interested in harvesting a doe.Also, there are twohunts forever etched in my mind - would either of thesemature buckshave continuedhis approachif I had not been using a decoy?Decoys have their place, but if they worked all the time, everyone would be using them...
-fsh