New pattern (To me any way)

[Mutley]

Hi guys , don't know if this has been mentioned before?...But like most have had difficulty decoying on rape lately!

Some come in some don't some come close but not close enough!....I have used the horseshoe pattern with rotary, and just random patterns

but cant say the birds have decoyed well! Until yesterday after reading one of the threads on here i had an idea ( scary or wot!?!)

For the set up i went with a random pattern with a hole in the middle approx yards in diameter and the rotary off to one side 10 or so yards.

Ok so the bag was not huge but wot birds came over wanted to come in, usual case 20 plus birds fly in and with an O/U the best you're gunna do is get 2,

Either way the set up seemed to work....Just thought i'd pass it on, Cheers lads

[henry d]

Hole in the middle is always good

[Cranfield]

As has been said many times, it pays to experiment, as long as you leave a clear area for the birds you want to shoot, to come into.

[Cosd]

Hi guys , don't know if this has been mentioned before?...But like most have had difficulty decoying on rape lately!

Some come in some don't some come close but not close enough!....I have used the horseshoe pattern with rotary, and just random patterns

but cant say the birds have decoyed well! Until yesterday after reading one of the threads on here i had an idea ( scary or wot!?!)

For the set up i went with a random pattern with a hole in the middle approx yards in diameter and the rotary off to one side 10 or so yards.

Ok so the bag was not huge but wot birds came over wanted to come in, usual case 20 plus birds fly in and with an O/U the best you're gunna do is get 2,

Either way the set up seemed to work....Just thought i'd pass it on, Cheers lads

 

 

Mutley, how many yards hole did you leave in the middle approximately?

and what sort of space between random birds(my guess 1yard between each deek)?

[henry d]

Not wishing to detract from Mutleys post, but I usually have a 3-4yd hole.

[Mutley]

Hi Cosd sorry i missed puttin in the yardage on the thread but henr d is about right it was 5yrds. and you're bang on 1yrd between deeks.....

Hope this helps cheers Mutley

[Highlander]

There's an old saying...if you do nothing, nothing will happen. Assuming you've done your homework and the fieldcraft is OK and you've got birds then play around with the pattern to get the birds dropping in where you want.

[Jimbo57]

As a newcomer to PW I don't wan't to seem to know it all. My friends tell me I know b*****-all.

 

But I have really never found that any particular patter works better than any other. I usually try to put out at least 20 decoys and try to have a few of them higher than ground level, like on fence posts or in a hedge.

 

But maybe I am wring cos some days the cushies just flock in to my pattern and other days they ignore it.

 

Poor year so far. very little in January and best day in February was only 26.