I've been successful using a diversionary decoy on my wife when I sneek another longbow in the door <img src=icon_smile_evil.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle><img src=icon_smile_big.gif border=0 align=middle> I've never tried a deer decoy. Did you ever have a deer come up that you could attribute to the decoy? I've seen them work on TV shows, but the deer around CT don't seem to react as aggressively as the TV shows.