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We used to run 2,500 - 4k socks. We have been building up the full body spread. Those seem to work a lot better, but like everything else, the snows will start to smarten up to them as everyone else attempts to do the same. We ran 500 full bodies last season. Our group shot close to 1,500 snows over them. If you can run some cyclones or other motion in the full body spread that are human operated, the birds will definately hone into that location.
Quote from: h2ofowlr on August 06, 2023, 03:04:02 PMWe used to run 2,500 - 4k socks. We have been building up the full body spread. Those seem to work a lot better, but like everything else, the snows will start to smarten up to them as everyone else attempts to do the same. We ran 500 full bodies last season. Our group shot close to 1,500 snows over them. If you can run some cyclones or other motion in the full body spread that are human operated, the birds will definately hone into that location.You leave them out in the field all season like the spring guys do? Setting and hauling my four dozen Canadian dsd lesser’s is a lot of work especially when public is turning all miss and no hit.
In my experience, mixing full bodies and socks / silhouettes doesnt work. They come in but consistently notice something not right at about 150 yards. I use 1200 socks, about 400 of which have head silhouettes, plus some flyers. It works great on birds that havent seen them yet, I rarely have success 2 days in a row in the same field.
Must be cool to have a group like that. Like I’ve said before my former hunting partner asked me if it would be okay if he let 3 of his friends hunt our spot and I said sure. Two of them even have young children and felt like I had a job to do to keep our sport alive. Next thing, getting no invites and told later because I burn bridges. I guess nice guys really do finish last. 😂
Quote from: ducks4days on August 09, 2023, 11:01:47 AMIn my experience, mixing full bodies and socks / silhouettes doesnt work. They come in but consistently notice something not right at about 150 yards. I use 1200 socks, about 400 of which have head silhouettes, plus some flyers. It works great on birds that havent seen them yet, I rarely have success 2 days in a row in the same field.The silhouettes worked good on new birds, but once they smartened up, we had to change up our approach. Snows can be a difficult bird to hunt if not on the X. Chasing them on being on the X in my area is becoming more difficult as properties get tied up and leased out.
Quote from: hdshot on August 09, 2023, 09:21:15 AMMust be cool to have a group like that. Like I’ve said before my former hunting partner asked me if it would be okay if he let 3 of his friends hunt our spot and I said sure. Two of them even have young children and felt like I had a job to do to keep our sport alive. Next thing, getting no invites and told later because I burn bridges. I guess nice guys really do finish last. 😂 we hunt with around the same size group. But it's taken a long time to get guys that you can trust, I've been burned and used by to many of them over the years. Heck one of my buddies friends that hunted with us this last season wanted to buy a fullbody snow spread so he could hunt snows this fall, little did he know how much a rig of 500 fullbodies cost.