MD Bowhunting

While Rattling for Whitetails has been around for years, using decoys to dupe a wary deer is somewhat a new trend. There are many different decoys on the market today and many different opinions on whether to use a buck or a doe. Here is a quick list of tips and tricks that may help you, should you decide to give a decoy a try this fall…

1.Putting a fake deer in the woods anywhere near you is almost asking for trouble from other hunters. Using blaze orange while carrying your decoy to the setup is a necessity for anyone on any property. Read More

Back in the early 80’s (as best as I can recall, it may have been earlier), Oklahoma started an experiment with some of their WMA’s that had a lot of bottom land. They would take a certain area of green timber and build dikes around it then flood it in the fall. The water depth would normally be around 18 inches to 2 feet, some areas a little more, some areas had less. This was in an effort to attract migrating ducks to the flooded timber in an effort to provide them with a resting area where they could feed and a place hunters could hunt ducks until 1 p.m.

The Wildlife Dept. also went into these areas cordoned off by the dikes and bulldozed small clearings every so often. These provided ducks a place to rest in the open and feed on the various weed seeds beneath the water. This also provided hunters an area to set out a set of dekes.
A Funny Thing Kept Happening On The Way To Our Duck Blinds
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