Fawn decoys

MONTANA HUNTER

MONTANA HUNTER

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I recently purchased a Feather Flex fawn decoy. I was wondering if any members have any experience with this decoy and how it was best used at the calling location. I have never used a fawn decoy before. I appreciate your input. Thanks.
Montana Hunter
 
I have not had the opportunity to use this decoy
yet. I do plan to use the fawn distress sound. I was hoping that someone would be able to share a success story. However, I am excited to use this decoy and expect that it will work well with the many predators here in Montana. Hopefully come fur season the topic will be: Feather Flex fawn decoy-Killer on Coyotes and Bobcats! Thanks.
Montana Hunter
 
Got one of these awhile back it in order to divert attention away from me while calling a lion to the camera. (Hasn't happened, yet.) Don't always use it, without motion it isn't the bees knees, have called coyotes that never noticed it. But I did call a gray fox real close that got all a-sceered when he nearly ran into it on departure. Hackles raised he walked right up and sniffed it; fawn toppled over and he nearly jumped out of his fur. Amusing enough to be worth the price of admission right there.

Mine gets crushed up in the bottom compartment of a pack, and has been sewn and glued back together with Shoo Goo, many times. I've also touched up the eyes and nose with shiny black nail polish a time or two. Put a blacktail looking tail on it. Stuffed it with foam rubber to keep it from looking like vintage roadkill.

LionHo
 
I dunno if you guys know this but I read it somewhere.... Coyotes have no depth percetption so you can fool them by standing them up high for visibility. I saw a guy using a fawn decoy in a hay field that was on a 4 foot rod.... the wind moved the decoy really well that far above the grass and the coyotes came blazing in to it without reserve. It looks really weird to a hunter but looks natural to a yote... hard to believe but I've read it twice and seen it on a hunting video once.
 
I've used the feather flex fawn in conjunction with a decoy heart on a stke to add motion to the decoy.Had some success with the method. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif
 
I used mine two nights ago with success. I set up in a hay field where I'd been seeing coyotes. I waited until I saw one come within about 400 yards then squeaked twice. And it wasn't really a fawn call either. The coyote saw the decoy and then the stalk was on. I watched him for awhile partly because the grass was so high. He got within about 50 yards of it, then started stalking back and forth of it. Finally he got enough of his head and neck above the grass the I got him in the neck. I only called twice right at first, and with all his attention focused on the decoy I probably could have been jumping up and down and he wouldn't have seen me. Made it real easy to get my rifle in the position for the shot.
 
I have used mine in the tall grass and in fields, I use it in conjunction with the fawn distress call. I have had good results with it.
 
I bought one after I video taped a bobcat walk into some tall grass. The cat waited for the deer to come out for the evening and pounced on a fawn. It was a very big cat but all the does ran him off so he didn't get the job done. Set it up in the same location and called with a flex tone fawn bawl but no luck yet.
 
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