I don't often use decoys simply because when I run and gun I usually don't have the time to set them up. For some reason I got both my 2009 birds with a decoy spread this year. I had some birds located and figured out the perfect location for decoys and myself based on where they would want to go. I was about 15 yds inside a wood edge with the decoys about 20 yds off my left in the field andaway from where the bird would come. They were visible in the field and the birds came in range well before they got real close to the decoys. The second bird came from the other direction the next day and that one strutted right up to the jake. Some times it works like that and you feel real lucky.