Turkey hunters and waterfowlers have long used decoys as standard equipment, so why haven't deer hunters followed their lead? Perhaps it's because deer are just so much bigger and it hasn't been practical to carry a deer replica into the woods.
With all the new materials being developed today, though, deer hunters now have plenty of practical choices when it comes to deer decoys - everything from paper cutouts to collapsible 3-D animals.
The bottom line is that using deer decoys works - and is a ton of fun. Anything that pulls a deer's attention away from you is a good thing, and decoys do that and more.
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