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wind duck 101?
« on: November 14, 2010, 07:35:16 PM »
So I got me a wind duck decoy, I haven't given it a real honest try yet since the day I was most successful with it the ducks would have decoyed to anything, but Im wondering if there are certain times that a wind duck is more productive than others?


what are the basic do's and don'ts of wind duckery?

#1 it must be windy enough to turn the wings (for all you wisenheimers out there)
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Re: wind duck 101?
« Reply #1 on: November 14, 2010, 07:41:44 PM »
you can also rig it up so you can run it with a fishing reel as well. they can be great sometimes and other times a pain in the butt :chuckle: make sure you get the anchored well in the wind storms :chuckle:
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Re: wind duck 101?
« Reply #2 on: November 14, 2010, 07:56:08 PM »
you can also rig it up so you can run it with a fishing reel as well. they can be great sometimes and other times a pain in the butt :chuckle: make sure you get the anchored well in the wind storms :chuckle:

These can't be rigged up.  Some of the spinning wing ones can be that use motors or gears. These are silhouettes with ABEC bearings.
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Re: wind duck 101?
« Reply #3 on: November 14, 2010, 08:02:00 PM »
o was not really thinking there is more then one wind duck :bash: my buddy and i did one that was a full bodied deke that had wings that just floated with a shaft. we wrapped the bar with nylon cord and the other part with a surgical tubbin. that way when you pulled the string it spins the wings. then when you let off the tension on the cord the tubbin pulls back and spins the wings the other way. pretty slick setup. sorry for the wrong pointers :chuckle: did not know there were diffrent ones out there. only ever seen the type he has.
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Re: wind duck 101?
« Reply #4 on: November 14, 2010, 08:09:30 PM »
actually I may have screwed it up. the one Im using is made by mojo and is a full body (non motorized) like  what carpsniperg2 described.

another thing I will add is that I spray painted half the white off the wings and covered the rest of the white in a flat clear coat. a few weeks ago I saw some guys using some wind decoys that just had waaaayyy too much flash, they were pretty close to the X but Im certain those huge flashing wings was what was flaring the ducks up to me.
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