colours

[kel]

Has anyone got any suggestions about decoy colouring

 

I think i have too much white on my decoys, birds come to the decoys,look

 

interested then veer off, totally uninterested.

Edited September 30, 2005 by kel

[RAMMER BURT]

B) not much info in your post mate, they come to your decoys and?

[Cranfield]

Look at the "shop bought" ones and copy the colouration.

A white collar on the neck and a few white strokes on the wings, is ample.

 

If you look at a flock of pigeons in any crop, its amazing how the white neck ring shows up, even at longish distances.

[invector]

Don`t use artificial decoys, use dead birds!! Problem solved. Funny thing though, I think my dead birds get a bit darker after a few times in the freezer. I`ve noticed that the birds I shoot on the day, and put out to extend the pattern, are lighter coloured than my ex-freezer birds.

[iamspartacus]

yeah ive noticed that too invector, also they always come out of the freezer in awkward positions, no matter how carefully i put them in!!

[invector]

You may be joking about the awkward positions iamsparticus but I take mine out of the freezer the night before and they have relaxed enough by the time I use them and are just like recently shot birds. Flexible and thawed out they fit on my cradles OK and look great. I get a large percentage of birds landing in the decoys and would think there was something wrong if they didn`t. Any flaring and I want to know why.