Juveniles playing roulette, I think, a little scared, a little juiced. Eventually one came and stomped 9x at 10 yd and then they all left. I was hunting archery in PA in rifle two weeks after rut, had 3 button bucks (I'm pretty sure not doe) come on it off in some scrubby stuff to the side of the ir hoped entrance into a small grass clearing, they snorted and ran, in 5 minutes returned and spent an hour going toward, then away from the decoy at about 20-40 yards. I have 20 pound test line I thought to rig up to help make him look in a particular direction, or wiggle tail a bit, but have not done that yet, a little concerned a deer could walk into it and knock over Scarface lol or just spook, but i doubt they would spook if I let loose of string end. I tried as doe and nothing appeared to care, after a dirt bike noise 1/4 mile away, two doe walked by 15 yards off of the decoy, but it could work too, IDK. I use it with only half rack, so not too intimidating, looks like easy target for buck. It does not make deer into charging lunatics, but it does work and on occasion it might get charged. I managed a nice wall hanger at a scrape I watched the buck make the afternoon before he returned the next morning 15 yds. I plan on experimenting with adding decoy movement when needed, especially for calm d ays, before next season. Daughter said the deer seemed to be waiting for an obvious response from the decoy. All the deer spotted the decoy, approached closer and lowered and wagged their heads and stamped a front hoof at the decoy, easy gun range but would not approach close enough for a good bow shot. My daughter saw deer most trips while using the decoy. I saw deer on days I did not take the decoy but the decoy had nothing to do with deer showing up or not. I had no luck with a deer showing up while using the decoy. I and my daughter used the decoy purchased for this fall for bow hunting. A bit of a chore to carry when also carrying a deer stand, bow, and possibles bag but adds a neat element to the hunt. Had same effect as reducing the polling rate.I enjoy using decoys. Setting mouse polling rate to 125 through Logitech G Hub fixed my in-game mouse acceleration issues. Makes movement of the mouse much easier, maybe too easy as with my mouse at 1000 Hz polling rate 1600 DPI it goes a bit too quickly for my feeling with no way to adjust it.
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