Better Than Movement |
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 Today's hunters go nuts about movement using such types as flagging, jerk lines, spinning wings, or waddling full bodies. All that stuff is good and will help for sure, but think about it, you have a flock of standing or swimming, plastic geese, almost all in position that says, "Hey I am awake, I am up and going." But the plastic statues don't move. You need something to create the allusion of movement. Now think about the resting position Mag Sleeper, what do geese do when they are sleeping? Nothing! The Mag Sleeper Decoy is the only decoy that looks real just sitting there.The winter of 2003 was a pretty slow season in our area. One morning in late December, we hunted till noon, left everything out and planned on going back in the late afternoon. We hunt over water, 4 miles from a refuge area. By late season, we saw many flocks of geese everyday going to and from this protected roost, the hardest part was trying to get them to stop for us to shoot.  On this particular day, I went back out to the blind 45 minutes before
sundown. While I was walking out to the blind, I saw a flock of geese
coming, so I got down to watch. I was still 250 yards from the blind
and decoys. This flock was on a straight line to the refuge. But when
they got over my spread they locked and dropped straight in. In the
distance, I could see another flock 2 miles away; they did the same
thing. This continued with another two flocks. Within 15 minutes,
we had four flocks that locked, dropped and in. These were the same
birds I had seen day after day flying over going straight to the roost.
Now I was really wondering, why are they going in so dedicated, no
circling, just dropping, what could be different today? What was on
the ground or in the hunting pond today that made these geese do that?
I snuck around to see what was going on. I could see all the geese
on the ground. Thirty yards off to the side of my decoys, in the center
of them was a flock of about 40 geese in them sleeping position. These
flocks had been flying over my decoys for weeks! But now with as few
as 4 dozen sleepers off to the side, the flocks were dropping in.
That was the moment I realized that a spread of standing and floating
decoys just doesn't look right to the birds. IT WAS INCOMPLETE WITHOUT
SOME SLEEPERS! |
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