Anyone out there use lots of duck butts in their spread? After driving around last season and watching feeding wigeon and gadwall (our most numerous ducks here) I bought 2 dz butts and am painting them to look like Wigeon, lots of black and white. Im thinking using 2 dz butts and 3 dz regular dekes in my deep water spread. Any comments?
I have around 50 or so duck butts, I don't always put all of them out but in shallow water I put out a good amount of them. Never seemed to scare birds. Mine are mallards, blacks and pintail. I never painted any of them into different birds but I don't see it hurting you.
I've thought the same thing. Mostly because I'm cheap, and primarily shoot divers, I don't have any, but whenever I see ducks while out driving around, there are at least a couple asses visible.
I have about a dz mallard duck butts and 8 of them are on 2 jerk rigs.
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GaddyGetter, the white is what im going for. Got a dz mallards for about nothing and painted lots of black and white on em and bought a dz pintails. Going to see how it works.