Decoy setup
02-14-2007, 06:44 PM
#2
Giant Nontypical
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Michigan
Posts: 5,076
RE: Decoy setup
Yes .. thats enough for a " Love Triangle " set up.
You'll want to put the jake close and in front facing you and the hens a little back behind the jake off to the sides.
As the tom comes in it will see the jake and try to challenge it by facing it , this will give you a chance to draw you bow or raise your gun.
You'll want to put the jake close and in front facing you and the hens a little back behind the jake off to the sides.
As the tom comes in it will see the jake and try to challenge it by facing it , this will give you a chance to draw you bow or raise your gun.
02-14-2007, 07:08 PM
#3
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: drummond mt.
Posts: 786
RE: Decoy setup
I like to have my decoys facing me as well.Or at least facing away from the expected approach of the approaching longbeard.Sometimes I will set that jake decoy right on top of my feeding hen like he might be getting ready to mount her. Good Luck and Have Fun.
02-14-2007, 08:17 PM
#4
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Apr 2003
Location: RI
Posts: 3,073
RE: Decoy setup
When I use a hen and a jake I always have the jake facing me and the hen usually right in front of the jake a little off to one side facing either left or right, like the jake may be approaching the hen from behind. The gobbler will usually go face to face with the jake. There probably isn't any validity to this, but I never put the hen facing me in case the gobbler approaches it from the rear hoping to get lucky.....
02-14-2007, 08:35 PM
#5
Spike
Join Date: Dec 2006
Location: Mars Hill, North Carolina
Posts: 77
RE: Decoy setup
I havent ever used a Jake decoy but, how i set up mine is: I havetwo Hen decoys, 1st is a feeding hen, 2nd is alert hen. I will have the feeding hen facing me & the alert hen facing the feeding hen to the left or right
