we sit in blinds, goose chairs or dig pits, we spread the decoys in out in a horse shoe always facing the wind, we use a horse shoe space because then the birds have some place to land close to you. Geese are real picky critters and u have to be certain no little cllumps of dirt from the pit are showin or that nothin on your blind is shining. If geese get so much as a bad feeling they are gone.