We finally had a mature buck come intoour mating decoy pair this afternoon, it was kind of neat to watchthebuck'sreaction. He approached the pair with ears laid back and hair bristled, but bolted out of there when he likely picked up some of ourresidual human odor (or possibly failed to detect the odor he was expecting). I already had the 18+" buck (3 1/2or 4 &1/2 yrs) at 10 yds from me while he was facing the decoys - an easychip shot, but I decided to let him go. He had pretty good mass and tine length, but one tine was broken off leaving him as a 7 ptr - he might havegrossed 120 and change.

So the potential is there, but at this stage of the rut, I think a buck decoy alone would do the trick...it would be alot less hassle too. Up to today, we had 5 rejections from bucks (4 dinks, one 11 ptr) who showedjust no interest in sorting things out. The does are not happy with the setup at all. The Experiment will continue...

-fsh