Goose decoys

[johnnytheboy]

Right gents, what goose decoy to go for? Hope to decoy the fields more and I got those silosock copies and they aren’t the best what should I go for? 

[Saltings]

if you fancy you can get some grey foam carpet underlay from your local carpet shop cut out the profiles you need and paint to suit your needs cheap as chips you can make sentries / feeding /  resting /sleeping decoys    a bit of foam / a bit of time  /a bit of aerosol paint / from a £ shop   you can build a really good decoy pattern  for peanuts  a nice pastime until the season starts

[Salmo]

Flock coated DK Wai ...... that’s what I use .... amazing 

[m greeny]

Silosocks work as do most other decoys but the most important thing is to be where the birds want to be. 

[edenman]

I must be getting lazy in my old age as i rarely bother with decoys for geese these days. Too many times i have watched geese then set up with a pile of decoys only to find them use another flightline in to the field. These days i go mobile with only a net, cartridges and a call so if they move i can too without having to move a ton of decoys.

Edited April 6, 2019 by edenman

[motty]

Pretty much any decoys will do. As has already been said, the most important thing is to be in the right field/place. I have decoyed pinks in Norfolk with a variety of Canada, greylag and pink decoys.

[panoma1]

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This, if they want the field, more or less any decoy will draw em in! If they don't........you may draw em close enough for a shot by calling, as they come for a look! But decoys alone seldom if ever work!

[johnnytheboy]

On 06/04/2019 at 22:14, motty said:

Pretty much any decoys will do. As has already been said, the most important thing is to be in the right field/place. I have decoyed pinks in Norfolk with a variety of Canada, greylag and pink decoys.

Our field is a mangnet for them but we bought some devoys and they were scaring them away, took the decoys in and they strayed landing! It was like a silosock but with a fibreglass peg 

[Continental Shooter]

Where I shoot sillosocks are useless too, never decoyed anything with them on their own. I found my old, hand made plywood ones worked better but sillosocks are a good addition when there's a breeze. FUD are also good in my view

[sako751sg]

Started using silos maybe 3 years ago and have never failed to pull birds in.

Have around 80 but still adding to the pattern.

 

[Konnie]

use sillosock decoys a couple of years ago pull them down a treat, and I only shoot them passing not on the fields they are using as not to disturb them too much.