I have not had a lot of luck with my decoys during the rut. A few years ago I took my Renzo's buck decoy out in August just to see if I could get anything going. I set it up in a small secluded hay field and had two really nice bucks come within 10 yds of the decoy. It was hilarious watching them because they would circle the decoy , and they couldn't figure out what was going on when they got behind or directly in front of the decoy and it turned into a 1/4 inch thick deer. Finally they had enough of the nonsense and ran off blowing all the way.