My buddy & I each purchased a decoy a number of years back & used them under many different circumstances with mostly negative responses from the deer until one day my buddy said he had his out and a doe spooked at the sight of it. He got down and made an adjustment and the next doe he saw came right in and he was able to take her. When I asked him what the adjustment was, he said he took it apart and hid it behind a big rock. I haven't given up completely on decoys, its just that they don't seem to be worth the trouble to haul around and setup.