I have never tried using a decoy. This year I have a new lifelike target deer. I'm sure that I'll set it out once just to see what kind of responce that I will get. So I've been going over different things I could trie. Someone may be able to sort what not to do. Horns on or off, I can think of both pros and cons to both. Say 20 yards from your stand, up wind, not sure how close they will come in to the decoy. I would imagine you could call more with a decoy, yea but not toooo much. I'm sure saftey is a concern. never a slimm chance that I would ever try this durring gun season. And I would still bring it in in a orange bag. Or is this more crap to try to drag into the woods. Seems like it might be neet to try though.