Decoy tail...important?
Contributors to this thread:Whitetail Deer
From: Grubby
20-Oct-19
I just dug my decoy out, I think he’s gonna get a field trip in the next week....sometime since last fall he lost his tail.
Would you run him without? Make something? How important is that tail?
From: Bou'bound
20-Oct-19
I would not run him without a tail.
From: Kodiak
20-Oct-19
Very important imo.
I use a little chunk of a white winter ghillie suit. Moves in the slightest wind.
From: Paul@thefort
20-Oct-19
As suggested add a tail of some sort. If you have a real deer tail around , hang it. A white plastic bag strip or a light weight white cloth, or even a strip of white paper towel can work.
Now, will it make any real difference with no tail? I surely doubt it but then..........
From: Paul@thefort
20-Oct-19
not sure if this Kansas buck even cared if the decoy had a tail or not. I know he saw a buck with a rack in his area. Shot at 15 yards and 10 ft from the decoy.
not sure if this Kansas buck even cared if the decoy had a tail or not. I know he saw a buck with a rack in his area. Shot at 15 yards and 10 ft from the decoy.
From: Grubby
20-Oct-19
Ok..... arts and crafts time.....
From: Jaquomo
20-Oct-19
I use 2D Montana decoys and clip a strip of toilet paper to the rumps. Really does seem to catch their eye when it flutters.
When I first started muley hunting with decoys they paid little attention to whitetail decoys. They I talked with a biologist friend who said muleys are more visually oriented than whitetails and the white rump is a visual trigger. So I doctored a couple whitetail decoys to have a prominent white rump and black tipped tail and the game totally changed.
From: Grubby
20-Oct-19
Hot melt glued some felt together over a wire
Hot melt glued some felt together over a wire
From: Grubby
20-Oct-19
I’ll add a safety pin to attach some tp
From: Shawn
20-Oct-19
A big white turkey feather or chicken feather!! One for tail and a small whitefeather on an ear. Movement is good! Shawn
From: blackbear62
20-Oct-19
Shawn that's exactly what do. The slightest breeze makes them flicker. Mark
From: sitO
20-Oct-19
I've never used a tail, and have had 50-75 deer come to a buck decoy(Flambeau Boss/HUD)...think you're good either way bud.
From: SaltyB
20-Oct-19
SaltyB's Link
I use a decoy a LOT. I swear by a tail wagger. You need some movement.
From: Cheesehead Mike
20-Oct-19
I got one of those long skinny springs used for closing screen doors, inserted a piece of coat hangar wire inside of it, removed the bone from a real deer tail, boraxed it and sewed it around the spring. Then I drilled a hole the same diameter as the spring in the rump of the decoy and inserted the spring with the tail on it into the rump. The coat hangar wire inside the spring allows me to bend an arc into the tail. I attached a fishing snap swivel to the spring near the tip of the tail that I can attach fishing line to and tug on the fishing line to move the tail when I want to. I sometimes screw an eye-screw into the base of my tree and run the fishing line thru it so the line runs along the ground from the decoy to my tree and then straight up the tree to my stand.
From: Grubby
24-Oct-19
Ready for action
Ready for action
From: Old School
24-Oct-19
I use a white cloth handkerchief. Cut strips in it so it lightly flickers in the wind. Hang it diagonally.
-Mitch
From: darralld
24-Oct-19
I have the waggin tail that Primos put out. It works great. Tail runs off remote. Movement is very important.