getthegat Posted January 15, 2020 Report Share Posted January 15, 2020 Possibly been asked before, but can anyone offer first hand knowledge of using silosocks. Do they only work in breezy conditions? And therefore do they need to all face the same direction? What happens to them if they get wet? Are they as effective as other decoys ie shells? I'm just considering them to reduce weight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mossy835 Posted January 15, 2020 Report Share Posted January 15, 2020 i use them a lot and work well.when wet they are ok. had some good shooting on rape with them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ultrastu Posted January 15, 2020 Report Share Posted January 15, 2020 In summer mate and i set up a bail hide in the centre of a field .we had a clump of silo socks. 1 clump of full bodied .1 of half shells and 1 of only real dead birds on cradels .. We had them on the 4 sides of the hide .the idea was to see which the birds prefered best .we obviously thought the dead birds would . It made no difference .they came in and landed where they fancied .if i was to choose id say the silo socks possibly had more actually land .but then we did mainly shoot them before touch down . Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
getthegat Posted January 16, 2020 Author Report Share Posted January 16, 2020 10 hours ago, Ultrastu said: In summer mate and i set up a bail hide in the centre of a field .we had a clump of silo socks. 1 clump of full bodied .1 of half shells and 1 of only real dead birds on cradels .. We had them on the 4 sides of the hide .the idea was to see which the birds prefered best .we obviously thought the dead birds would . It made no difference .they came in and landed where they fancied .if i was to choose id say the silo socks possibly had more actually land .but then we did mainly shoot them before touch down . That was an interesting useful piece of research. All this hype about full body deeks, which I'm sure do work very well, but take up a lot of space and weight to carry, shows they are not absolutely necessary then. Cheers guys Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Macca72 Posted January 16, 2020 Report Share Posted January 16, 2020 I got some sillosocks for winter shooting to reduce weight etc and they work well give a bit of movement. I wouldn't bother with full body decoys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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