All the talk of decoys brought something to mind I hadn' t thought about in years. The Ky Dept of Fish and Game had a decoy too. They called it Memorex. Memorex could lift his head (which had a nice 8 point rack), turn it, and put it back down as though looking around while feeding. He could also twitch his tail and looked very real from about 50 yards away.

They placed him (and still do as far as I know) off the side of the road in different areas during gun season. I' m sure you know what follows.

Joe Redneck comes driving down the road in his 4X4 with the tobacco juice stains running down the door. He sees Memorex and locks it up. " Hot dang Joe Bob look at that!"

Out comes the .30-06 and BOOM!....BOOM! " Whut the hail!??"

Sometimes they would shoot 2 or three times before finally figuring out something wasn' t right. Out come they guys from F&G and he' s busted for hunting from his vehicle and on a road. They video taped all this for court evidence.

Since a friend of mine was the Game Warden for a while, I got to see several of these captures on tape. I dang near peed my pants laughing at some of these guys. The expressions on their faces were absolutely priceless! At least none of them were stupid enought to try to dispute the evidence in court. 100% conviction rate.

So the next time you' re cruising around during gun season, see that buck over in the field next to the road, and the thought comes to your mind, you' d better ask yourself this question: " Is it live, or is it Memorex?"