Why a Sleeper? |
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 There are two places to hunt geese, where they feed and where they rest. If you're hunting over water you're probably hunting a resting area. We call this a simulated roost. When the birds come to the roost they are going to be in the resting mode. The problem with today's decoy spreads are that 1/3 of the decoys are wrong! Flocks of geese on the roost will always have some amount of birds with their heads back, tucked under a wing. You can't get that look with full bodies or regular shells. Now you can get it with the Mag Sleeper. Some folks think that sleepers are only good on the ice, not so. Just check out the roost at mid-day in the early part of the season, you will see resting sleepers, as many as 1/3 to 1/2 of the geese will be in the sleeper position. If you want your spread to look right you need that look.  Waterfowl, like all animals are energy savers. Animals conserve their energy instinctively. It is true that the lower the temperature, the higher percentage of geese will be resting. Also, the closer together the birds will be. But even in warm temps and early season hunting, many birds on the roost will be in the sleeper position.If you're hunting in the field you still need some sleepers, but not as many, 10 to 15 percent of your spread should be sleepers and you will want to scatter them towards the blind end of your spread, putting them in family groups of 6 - with 2 sleepers and 4 feeders works very well. Or you can use pairs of sleepers scattered towards the back of the spread. |
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