I've just hunted for four years now with a bow, but I have had very poor success with the old charge'em theory. Seems to me that most bulls really don't want to close that bad with an unknown antagonist, sort of like how guys talk all kinds of trash but when it's time to throw down they kind of hold back.

I carry the little butt decoy from Montana Decoys, and do a lot of static setups with her (Wapitilda is her name). Last year I killed a P&Y bull (262) on such a setup that took two hours to coax him in. This year, with the brutal weather I experienced, it was tough to hang out for more than an hour before toes got cold. That's not enough time. However, I still called in a couple bulls this way on rare days when it was warm and dry enough to stick it out. Both came in only after 1 to 3 hours of me calling away.